[1751] The Mitcham oil fetches 30s. to 60s. per lb., according to the season.
[1752] On the high land between Nice and Turbia, I have observed the two species growing together, and that L. vera is in flower two or three weeks earlier than L. Spica.—D. H.
[1753] De distillatione, Romæ, 1608. 87.
[1754] The incorrectness of the term Arabica is noticed by Pomet. How it came to be applied we know not.
[1755] Pereira, Elem. of Mat. Med. ii. (1850) 1368.—Nor do we know if L. lanata Boiss., a very fragrant species closely allied to L. Spica DC., and a native of Spain, is distilled in that country.
[1756] Bentham, Handbook of the British Flora, 1858. 413.—Parkinson (1640) remarks of Speare Mint that it is “onely found planted in gardens with us.”
[1757] Seemann’s Journal of Botany, Aug. 1865. p. 239. We borrow Mr. Baker’s careful description of Mentha viridis.
[1758] Part 2. (1568) 54.
[1759] Philosophical Magazine, xiii. (1838) 444.
[1760] Journ. of Chemical Society, ii. (1854) 11.