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Show Of the Hiftorte of Plants. 684 anes * Ti1M entha aquatica,fine S ifymsbrinn Water Mint. t itd 2 Calamintha ‘alamintha iquatica, hs Water Calamint . a Ofthe Hiftory of Plants Fee. 1 . £ 5 Mentaftrum mins. y = £ 6 Mentaftrim montana 1, Chifij. Small Horfe-Mint. Mountaine Horfe-Mint, a ~ Nv LDN mt hs TUMOR aN fie’ 3 ~Mentaftrum: Horfe-Mint. nis Anglicum. m t sa $t 4 Mentafirumnineum Party coloured Horfe- Mint. t ; radice Clufij. + 7 Mentaftrumtuberofa Turnep-soqeed Horle-Minc. wrinkled, hoary and rough both abotie and be low, and lightly fnipped akout the edges; the floures growin thicke compaé eares at the tops ofthe ftalks,andare like thofe ofcommon Mint. The whole plant is of a more vupleafant fent than any ofthe other Mints. It growes in diuers wetand moift grounds, and floures in Iune and July. This by moft writers is called only Menta. trum, without anyother attribute. 4 Infomeofour Englifh gardens (as Pena and Lobel obferued) growes another Horfe-mint, muchleffe, and better fmelling than the laft mentioned, hauing the leaues partly greene, and partly milke white ; yet fometimes the leaues are fomeof them wholly white, but more, and more commonly all greene : the ftalkes, floures, andotherparts ate like thofeof the former, but leffe. This is the Mentaftrum nineum Anclicum,of Lobel: and Mentastrum alterum of Dodoneus. 5 ‘This growes inwaterie places, hauing 4 ftalke ofa cubit of cubit andhalfe high, fet with longifh hoary leaues like thofe of Horfe-mint# the floures growin fpokie tufts at the tops ofthe ftalkes, ofa duskie purple colour, and in fhape like thofe of the common Mint : the fmell of this comesnecre to that ofthe water Mint. This is the Mentaftrifolia aquatica hirfuta, fiue Calamintha 3. Diofioridis,of Lobel : inthe hift, Laga. ae? called m7cataftrimminus fpicatum. 6, The |