DIDYNA1IA. 
109 
N° of 
Species in 
N® Genera* 
Growth. 
Species. Native of 
Britain. 
12 Mentha* 
h 
20 
Canada, Austria 
Brit. 12 
13 Moluecella 
h 
3 
Syria 
14 INepeta 
h 
18 
Italy, &c. 
Brit. 1 
15 Perilla 
h 
1 
India 
3 6 Phlomis 
h 
13 
Ceylon, India 
17 Satureja 
s & h 
8 
France, Greece 
18 Sideritis 
h 
13 
Canary, Syria 
19 Stachys 
h 
17 
Germany, Alps, &c. 
, Brit. 4 
20 Teucrium 
s & h 
35 
America, _&c. 
Brit. 4 
2d. Calyxes two-lipped. 
% 
21 Cleonia 
h 
1 
Portugal 
22 Ciinopodium 
h 
3 
America 
Brit. 1 
23 Dracocephalum 
h 
13 
America, Siberia 
,24 Horminum 
h 
1 
Pyrenia 
25 Melissa 
s & E 
6 
Crete 
Brit. 2 
,26 Melittis 
b 
1 
Germany 
Brit. 1 
27 Ocymum f 
h 
21 
India, America, &c. 
28 Origanum 
h 
11 
Egypt, Syria, 
Brit. 2 
29 Phryma 
b 
' 2 
S. America. 
30 Prasium 
s 
' 2 
Spain, Sicily 
3l Prunella 
h 
3 
Europe 
Brit. 1 
* W. Sole, a medical practice? at Bath, hath lately published a treatise oh 
mints, or rather merits, (mentha) 1708, pr. £\. is. with plates. He hath adopted 
the subdivision of the genus from Linnseus; 1st. into spiked mints , of Which he 
makes eight species; 2d. into round-headed , containing four species; 3d. into 
uhorled, containing twelve specie^.—The common spear mint (mentha viridis) is 
of the spiked species.—The pepper mbit (mentha piperita) Linnaeus describes as one 
of the round-headed species, jtrnt Mf. Sole makes three varieties, viz. 1st .mentha 
piperita officinalis, the true pepper mint, which is spiked, and lanceolate leaves.— 
2d. mentha piperita vulgaris, common pepper mint, which is round-headed, and 
hath ovate leaves : and 3d. mentha piperita silvestris, wild pepper mint, which is 
spiked, and hath broad ovate leaves; this is larger and coarser than the two former, 
and hath a disagreeable smell. 
f The Abbe Gravel, in his history of Chili, (translated from the Italian of the 
Abbe Molina, l?8S) mentions a species of basil in the province of St. dago, which 
he calls ocymum salinum, and says it greatly resembles the common basil, except 
that the stalk is round and jointed; but what is remarkable in this plant is, that 
though it grows sixty miles from the sea, yet every morning it is covered with saline 
globules, which are hard and splendid, appearing at a distance like dew, and that 
each plant furnishes about half an ounce every day, and that the peasants collect 
this salt and use it a? common salt, to which it is superior in flavour. 
