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Show 354 The The. flowers are numerous, fmall, and of a bright red: they are placed at the tops of the ftalks in long, flender fpikes. Thetafte is very pleafant, warm, and aromatick. It is a native of Germany, but is for the fervice of the table and of medicine kept in every i Others, garden. C. Bauhine calls it Mentha Romana. Mentha,anguftifolia [picata.. mint, and Roman mint. HERBAL BRITISH Our people, Spear- Pie It is a native of Denmark 5 but its beauty has obtainedit a place in our gardens. It flowers in Auguft. Mentha trifpa Danica. LUSOAP The root creeps under the furface, and has numerous, thickefibres: The ftalk is firm, upright, fquare, of a pale green, not much bratiched, and two feet high. The leaves have no footftalks : they are large, oblong, broad, and very beautiful : they are indented, and curled at the edges ; and their colour isafrefh; fine green. The flowers are large and flefh-coloured : they ftand in thick and fhort fpikes at the tops of the ftalks.and branches. Goiak Ni 1. Narrow-leaved Pennyroyal. The mints in general poffefs the fame qualities: Pulegium anguftifolium. they are ftomachick and deobftruent ; but there are alfo particular qualities in fomeof the {pecies, We have mentioned the two horfe-mints as eminent in nervous cafes ; and the pepper-mint, byits warmth, is of great fervice againft cholicks, other kinds as a ftomachick. Its diftilled water poflefles this quality in a very eminent andufeful degree. The dried leaves alfo are ufed in powder, and the frefh tops made into tea. Thejuice of the tops of/pear » given half a fpoonful at a time, witha little fugar, will ftop vomitings." The-diftilled water is good agai the ficknefles and gripings to which infants liable. It is alfo excellent at table, not onlyfor its agreeable flavour, but its ‘virtues. Our an ceftors wére wife who mixed it with beans and peafe, for it prevents the Alatulencies rifing from fuch foods. Uni DIVISION. Clufius calls it Mentha latifolia cri[pa Danica. The common fpear-mint is fuperior to all the 2. Danifh-curled Mint. “YB RST PSH § Hi. PobaiNeNOY ROY; AL: PULEGIU™M HE flower is formed of a fingle petal, a little longer than the cup; andis divided into two lips; the upper one is broad, and undivided at the tip ;, the under one is divided into three fmall fegments, and there is a fhort tubular bottom. The cup is formedof a fingle piece, divided intofive fegments at the rim and it remains after the fower. The feeds are four, and naked, having no covering but the cup. The flowers growin thickclufters furrounding the ftalk; and the whole plant has a piercing fmell, Linnzus places this among the didynamia gymno/permia, the threads in the flower being two longer and two fhorter, and the feeds having no capfule, but remaining naked inthe cup. But he joins it with mint, denying it to be a feparate genus. The’ diftinétion is’indéed minute; but it is certain and unavoidable : and it is ufeful. Pennyroyal has always been called by a diftin@ name: it has Pulegium vulgare. DLS: w The root is fibrous and creeping. The ftalks are numerous, weak, andof a pale green : fome lie upon the ground, others rife irregularly up; and they are very muchbranched: they are fquare; but the angles are fo muchobliterated in many parts, that they appear round. The leaves ftand two at a Joint; and they are fmall, of an oval figure, and of a pleafant green: they are rounded at the end, and little indented at the edges. The flowers are fimall, and of a pale red ; but they grow fo thick together, that they are condpicuous upon the plant: they furround the ftalk at the joints, where the leaves grow in great circles. 0 The feeds are inconfiderabie and brown, It is common wild in damp. ground, and is 6 brought thence into gardens. It Sowers ih June. C. Bauhinecalls it Pulegium latifolium. Others; Pulegium vulgare, It is a plant of a very great and very well knownvirtue. Itis excellent againft obftruétions of the mentes; and may be taken for that purpofe in the diftilled water, in form of the juice prefféd frefh from the plant, orin infufion. It is alfo uf cera, and ftomach. acts as a diuretick, ar the gravel. It is alfo gooc Mr. Boyle has left a againft the chinco The method of Juice, {weetened with fugar-candy, a fpeonful pIvi- C. Bauhine calls it Pulegium anguftifoliun. Others, Pulegium cervinum, Harts pennyroyal. The leaves ate placed in pairs; but they have Its virtues ate the fame with the others. dented, and fharp-pointed. GE N= 'Us'rs IV. WATER.HOARHOUND, Lt 6 (Ch Ons. HE flower is made of a fingle petal ; which is tubular.at the bottom, .and divided into four parts at the edge, which forma kind of’lips : the upper one confifts of a fingle fegment, which is broader ‘than the others, and‘nipped at the end; the other three fegments formthe lower lip; and of thefe the middle oneis fmaller than the reft. The tubtlar part of the’ flower is of the fame length with the’ e¢up ; which is alfo formed of a fingle piece'y but it is dividéd into five. fegments at the rim, whicltare ‘Watfow and’ fhatp-pointed. “The feeds are four ; ‘and they ftand naked in thecup. Linnzas feparates this and: fome others frori the’ reft of the verticillate plants, They ftand among his: didynamia 5° thiscis one of his dizndria monogynia ; the threads in the flower being only two, and the ftyle from the fidiment of the fruit fingle. Ic is cértain, that there arée,-as:this author obferves, only two thiedds orfilaments in the flower of /ycopas, andthere are four in that of pennyroyal. But this is a light markof diftin@tion.’’ The form and’ftructure of the fower and ofits cup, and the difpofition ofits feedss-agree with thofe of the other. This is a plain, familiar inftance of that author’s unnatural arrangement of plants: thefe are both in every one’s way to examine; and from thefe I appeal to thofe whoyet are inclined to own his fyftem, whether peznyroyal and water boarbound do not evidently belong to the fameclafs, though he has feparated them into two very remote ones in his works. Every clafs affords many like inftances. BR aL Ses. DIVISION SPE ete is: white fibres, joined to a fmall head. The ftalk is fquare, firm, upright, hollow, and two feet high: it is of a pale green, and is rarely branched. The:leaves are placed in pairs; and they have the bafe ; and their colour. is a ftrong andlively green. The flowers are fmall and white: they ftand in clufters round the ftalks at the joints; where the leaves’ rife, Thefeeds are {mall and brown. It is common by ditch-fides, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Marrubiumpaluftre glabrum, thortfootttalks: they are large, broad, oblong, Others, Marrubium aquaticun Lycopus vulgaris, x. CommonPennyroyal. The feeds are fmall and blackith. It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in June. vfually tufts of young ones in their bofoms: ‘they até Jongifl, natrow, of a pale green, little’ in- Common Water Hoarhound. BR LA ScbieS Pu Caleb: The flowers growin clufters at the joints; and they are {mall, and of a very faint bluifh; often white. The root is compofed of numerous fibres, long, which are not thofe of mint. It is fit therefore that we retain the name, andpreférve the genus as diftinét ; there being foundation for it alfo in the characters of the fower. wk lO RiEd G.Naws PE Ga & S: flender, crooked, and whitifh. The ftalk is firm, upright, not much branched, and @ foot high. great virtues, whichare recorded of it under its properand diftinét title in the antient authors, and DIV tL SLON AER Ale? POF» 2 The root is compofed of a multitude of long, and pointed at the ends: they are very tharply ferrated at the edges; and finuated deeply near Der Vt Ot OUN...LL, It is deftitute oftafte and fmell, and; fo far as we know, of virtue: FOREIGN Narrow-leaved Virginian Lycopus. ferratis. fis tenuius Ty ee nee. The root is fibrous and fpreading. The ftalks are numerous, {quare, upright, not much branched, anda foot or more in height. The leaves are placed in pairs, and are of a faint green: they are broad at the bafe, narrower | SPECHE to the point, and very elegantly ferrated at thé " edges. The flowers are fmall and whitifi: the feeds are oblong and brown. It is frequent in the wet grounds in North America, and flowers in June. Gronovius calls it Lycopus foliis lanceolatis te nitiffime |
