. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 7. Mentha aquatica L. Water Mint. Fish Mint. Fig. 3686. Mentha aquatica L. Sp. PI. 576. 1753. Perennial by suckers, hirsute or pubescent, rarely glabrate; stem stout, erect, leafy, usually branched, ii°-2i° high, its hairs reflexed. Leaves broadly ovate, petioled, acute, subacute or the lower obtuse at the apex, rounded, subcordate or rarely narrowed at the bas
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 7. Mentha aquatica L. Water Mint. Fish Mint. Fig. 3686. Mentha aquatica L. Sp. PI. 576. 1753. Perennial by suckers, hirsute or pubescent, rarely glabrate; stem stout, erect, leafy, usually branched, ii°-2i° high, its hairs reflexed. Leaves broadly ovate, petioled, acute, subacute or the lower obtuse at the apex, rounded, subcordate or rarely narrowed at the base, sharply serrate, the larger i¥~3' long and nearly as wide; whorls of flowers in terminal dense short thick rounded spikes, and usually also in the upper axils; spikes seldom more than i' long in fruit; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the flowers; calyx hirsute, its teeth lanceolate-subulate or tri- angular-lanceolate, one-third to one-half as long as the nearly cylindric tube; corolla sparingly pubescent. In wet places, Nova Scotia to Pennsylvania and Georgia. Naturalized from Europe. 8. Mentha crispa L. Crisped-leaved, Curled or Cross Mint. Fig. 3687. Mentha crispa L. Sp. PI. 576. 1753- Mentha aquatica var. crispa Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 177. .1833. Sparingly pilose-pubescent at least at the nodes, petioles and veins of the lower surfaces of the leaves; stem rather weak, usually much branched, li°-3° long. Leaves distinctly peti- oled, or the uppermost sessile, ovate in out- line, mostly acute at the apex, rounded, trun- cate or subcordate at the base, their margins crisped, wavy and incised, or the uppermost merely sharply serrate; whorls of flpwers in dense thick rounded terminal spikes, which become l'-ii' long in fruit; calyx sparingly pubescent or glabrous, its teeth subulate, more than one-half as long as the campanulate tube; corolla glabrous. In swamps and roadside ditches, Connecticut to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Balm-mint. Please no
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