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Identifier: englishbotanyorc07sowe (find matches)
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 Boswell, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1888 Lankester, Mrs. (Phebe), 1825-1900 Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871 Salter, John William, 1820-1869 Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870
Subjects: Plants Plants
Publisher: London : R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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Mentha piperita var. officinaUs. Garden Pepper-mint, MXXV.
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Mentha piperita var. vulgaria. Wild Pepper-mint. LABIAT7E. ^ but is especially beneficial to splenetic people, whom he recommends to taste it in thegarden for nine successive days without picking it, taking care to say at the same tunethat they do it for the good of their spleen. We incline to believe in the daily walkin the garden rather than in the mint a sa cure. The notion that mint will preventthe coagulation of milk is favoured by Dr. Withering, as having some foundation infact; for he says, when cows eat Mentha arvensis in summer, as they are apt to dowhen grass is scanty, their milk can hardly be made into cheese ; and Lewis says, thatmilk in which mint-leaves were put to macerate did not coagulate nearly so soon as anequal quantity of the same milk kept by itself. It is said that mice are so averse to thesmell of mint, either fresh or dried, that they will desist from theii- depredations ongrain, cheese, or other stores where it is scattered. SPECIES v.—M ENTHA PIPERITA. Bu

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