Theatrum j3otanmim. 
9. OAintaflmm tuberofim Clast/. 
CIuGus his knobbed wild Mints, 
11. C Mentaflrum hirfuttim. 
Hairy wild Mints. 
This wild Mint hath (quare hairy 
flalkes with many branches rifing 
from the roote , higher and greater 
than the ordinary wilde Mint , having 
hayrie long leaves fet thereon at a 
joynt, and many purplifla flowers at 
the tops. 
The T? lac el 
The firfl foure forts are onely found 
planted in Gardens with us, and the 
flit found firfl: wilde both with us, and / \ 
etfewhere, but for efpeciall re/petts 
brought into gardens. The other forts 
were likewife wild by nature in their 
places , but noware cherilhed with 
the lovers of plantes in many places. 
The Time'. 
All the fotts ofGarden,as well as wild Mints, flower not untill the beginning of Auguft for the rnoft part but 
the garden Mints for the molt part feldome doe give any good feed, but rccompence thedefefl by the increa’feof 
the root, which is foplentifull, that being once planted in a garden, they arc hardly rid out agarne, every fmall 
piece thereof being left in the ground increafing faff enough. 1 
The Names. 
'Mentha was called by the old Grecians 1Mn as Pliny recordeth, but of the later Greekcs SMeisot ah odoris be - 
vitate vel jnctmditate, becaufe it is fo fweet. The Arabians call it Nab at mho : the Italians Mentha : the Spaniards 
Terva bttena: the F rench Mentbe: the Germanes Mint*. : the Dutch Mint, and fo doe we. The firfl of tbefe 
garden Mints is called RomanaemgtijHfolio, five Cardiaca, and called by 'Bauhinus Mentha hortenjis verticillata ccimi 
odorefbot how truely I cannot fee,becaufe it beareth fpiked heads) who faith alfo, it is th tOcimoides repent that 
Gerard hath fet out, for that no other Ocimoid.es of any other Author agreeth thereunto. The fejpnd is called Cm- 
data of Label, & rottsndifolia altera jpicato fore, in Englilh Crofl'e Mint. The third is ufually in our wardens by the 
name of red Mints - the fourth is called Mentha crifjta, and 'Balfamita of Camerarius , and Sifymbrksmhortenfe of 
Matthiolut, and called by 1 Bauhinus Mentha ertfa verticillata, and is the vulgauferpens rotttndiorcfe/io Tulegf ftore 
of Lobel, in Englilh Curld or Crifpe Mint. The fift is the bed and trued: Curld Mint, which Libel (hewed, but 
did not fet forth. The fixt is that kinde of wild Mints which is planted in gardens, and called of feme Horfe 
Mint; (from whence hath come our white or party coloured Mints,to be feene in many gardens; and as I thinke is 
called by Label Sifjmbria Mema agreflis , for it anfwereth very well thereunto, although Label faith, it is all one 
with the Mentha cruciate. The feventh is called by Lobel Mentaflrum aliud & Memafrum Campcnfe of Lugdu- 
nenfit, it is the Syfimbriumfylvcflre of Matthiolnt, very well fet forth in his fmall leones. The eighth and ninth 
C lx f m hath fet forth,callingthe eighth Mentanum,or Pannonkum, and the other Mentaflrum tuberofa radicc, but 
referreth it rather to a kinde of Cattariatubcrofa, and by that name I have often received it among other feeds 
from Italy and other places, whereunto it doth mod: fitly agree. The tenth Banimus hath written of, and fet the 
defeription thereof in his Prodromtu,by tile name of Mentha genietdata radice, and faith, hee received it both by 
the name of Mentha tnberofa,vnANcpctaantruftifoliaodorata, from feverall places. The eleventh is calred by Lo. 
bel Calamintha tertia hDiofcoridis , cf- Mentaflrifolia aejtsatica hirfuta, by Lu^dunenft Mentaflrnm minus fpicatum, 
by Camerarius Mentaflrumaliud hirfuttim, and by Bauhinus Mtntba paluftru folio obltmgo : The lad is called by 
Eauhtr.ils Mentha rotundifoliapalnflris minor. 
12. LMentaflrum rotundifolium minus. 
Small round leafed wild Mints. 
The ftalke hereof is fquare, hairy, and 
reddilh J about a foote high, having 
two leaves at a Joynt, fomewbat long 
and round, foft, hairy, and dented about 
the edges, of afadgreene on the upper 
fide, and hoary under-neath : from the 
Joynts rife fomc branches fef with the 
like leaves, and round heads of flowers 
at the toppes, of a purpliih colour 
the feent hereof is not very pleafant, but 
rather ftrong and heady. 
