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Tennessee. Principally cultivated in Michigan and New York. — 
Bui. Bur. Plant Ind. U. S. Dept. Agric., 1906, No. 89, p. 46. 
An editorial notes that Mentha 'piperita is mentioned in the Ice- 
landic Pharmacopoeia of the thirteenth century. — Chem. & Drug., 
Lond., 1906, v. 69, p. 969. 
An abstract from the American Agriculturist discusses the pepper- 
mint crop and the probable shortage in 1906. — Brit. & Col. Drug., 
Lond., 1906, v. 49, p. 549. 
Henkel, Alice, discusses the cultivation of peppermint, giving fig- 
ures of the “ runners,' ' the leaves, and flowering top, and a peppermint 
still. — Spatula, Boston, 1906, v. 12, pp. 331-335, 415-417. 
Weigel, G., reviews the current literature on the cultivation of 
peppermint. — Pharm. Zentralh., 1906, v. 47, p. 890. 
Roure Bertrand Fils, (Bulletin, Oct. 1905, pp. 1-18) describe a 
peculiar form of peppermint, known b}^ the name of mentliebasilique, 
which occurs in the plants cultivated around Grasse. The struc- 
tural changes which they describe are brought about by a mite which 
invades the branches at the time when they are on the point of issuing 
from the ground. — Pharm. J., Lonch, 1906, v. 22, p. 706. 
Utech, P. H., asserts that if the peppermint herb that is directed 
in the formula for spirit of peppermint be allowed to macerate in 
water for several hours before being added to the spirit the resulting 
color will be a more permanent and a deeper green. — Proc. Pennsyl- 
vania Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 80. 
Taylor, S., does not agree that all the aromatic waters should be 
prepared direct from the oils, but he finds that this water is eminently 
successful if prepared by percolating wool containing the oil with 
hot water. — Pharm. J., Lond., 1906, v. 23, p. 669. 
MENTHA VIRIDIS. 
Henkel, Alice, mentions Mentha spicata L., also known as Mentha 
viridis L., commonly known as spearmint, as having been naturalized 
from Europe, and growing in moist fields and waste places from 
Nova Scotia to Utah, south to Florida and Kansas. Also culti- 
vated. — Bui. Bur. Plant Ind. U. S. Dept. Agric., 1906, No. 89, p. 46. 
L T tech, P. H., asserts that the modification for spirit of peppermint 
recommended by him, macerating the required herb with water for 
several hours, is also of advantage in connection with spirit of spear- 
mint. — Proc. Pennsylvania Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 81. 
Fvfe, John William, savs that Mentha viridis constituted the most 
important drug in a preparation which Beach said he had discovered 
by accident to be remarkably efficacious in suppression of urine. — 
Eclectic Med. J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, p. 322. 
