S66 120. Mentha. 32. LABIATE. PL ex. cor. 
Iractea fringed ; odour pungent ; taste bitter aromatic.— 
Stem and leaves covered with glands containing a carmina- 
tive and antispasmodic oil. 
|3. vulgaris. Leaves ovate, short, rather elliptical ; spikes 
short, blunt, and like a head. 
Mentha (spieata) spicis brevioribus et habiiioribus, foliis menthse fuscae* 
sapore fervido pi peris, Raii Syn. 234, 7. 
Mentha piperita, Hull Br. FI. 127. 
Mentha piperita vulgaris, Sole Menth. Br. 19,8. 
y. hircina. Leaves heartshape, ovate, bald ; spikes pointed* 
long; lower whirl very remote, pedicelled; taste virose* 
ungrateful. 
Mentha piperita sylvestris, Sole Menth. Br. 53,24. 
Mentha piperita, Hull Br. FI. 127. 
12. Mentha viridis. Green mint. 
Spikes interrupted, attenuated ; leaves sessile, heartshape, 
lanceolate, pointed, naked ; Lraclece and teeth of the calyx 
rather hirsute. 
Mentha Romana, Ger. erh. 680, 3. 
Mentha spieata viridis, Lin. S. P. ed. 1, 576. 
Mentha viridis, Lin. S. P. 804. 
Mentha glabra, Mill. Die. 
Spear mini. Common garden mint. Brown mint . Maycril mint. 
Bogs ; perennial ; August. 
Stem ■ 3 feet high, upright, bald ; leaves bald ; spikes pa~ 
nicled, whirls remote; hracteee twice as long as the flowers; 
pedicells and calyx bald ; odour aromatic, acrid. — A con- 
serve of the leaves, as also the distilled water and distilled 
spirit prevent and stop nausea and vomiting : leaves used 
also as carminatives to season flatulent food ; made into 
poultices, or in fomentations, used to dissolve coagulations 
of milk in the breasts, milk with which mint leaves are 
mixed not curdling nearly so soon as pure milk. 
13. angustifolia. Leaves rather hirsute beneath ; teeth of 
the calyx fringed, fringes short. 
Mentha spieata angustifolia, glabra, folio rugosiore, odore graviore, 
Raii Syn. 233, 1. 
y. ciliata . Leaves rather hirsute beneath; teeth of the 
calyx fringed ; fringes long, very copious. 
Mentha spieata angustifolia, glabra, spica latiore, Dillen in Raii Syn , 
233, 2. 
& laii folia. Leaves broad, short, wrinkled; teeth of the 
calyx fringed ; fringes short. 
Mentha spieata glabra, latiore folio, Dillen in Raii Syn, 234,3. 
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