Ilva has a herb I've never heard of, Nepitella or lesser calamint. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Herb Blogging Year in Review: Weeks 1-10] Reference
Pandan leaves and lesser calamint--2 new things I learned about today. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Herb Blogging #10 Recap Still Discovering New Herbs] Reference
She shares photos of Nepitella, also called lesser calamint which grows wild in the area where she lives. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
One says that it is yellow-dock, another that it is bittersweet, another that it is slippery-elm bark, burdock, catnip, calamint, elicampane, thoroughwort, or pennyroyal. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference
One lovely morning in the late summer, just before the trees were clothed with what is called "gypsy gold," and the bright green of the foliage showed scarcely a touch of bronze -- at that very moment, indeed, when the spirits of all the wild flowers that have left the common and the hedgerow seem to come back for an hour and mingle their half-forgotten perfumes with the new breath of calamint, ground-ivy, and pimpernel, he and a friend were walking towards a certain camp of gryengroes well known to them both. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"] Reference
For the lungs calamint, liquorice, ennula campana, hyssop, horehound, water germander, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
My flower garden has hosted numerous mint relatives: bee balm, lamb's ears, lamium, ajuga, physostegia, coleus, catmint, calamint, bells of Ireland, perovskia, endless salvias and even a few shrubs such as caryopteris. From Wordnik.com. [Oregano, basil and other members of the mint family dominate the herb garden] Reference
And your ladyship shall observe dat, as Nature has supplied and adapted particular plants and herps to de maladies of de several parts of de animal pody, as, - not to be tedious, - aniseeds and calamint for de head, hysop and liquorice for de lungs, borage for de heart, betony for de spleen, and so on wid de whole pody - dis wonderful medicament contains and possesses in itself someting of all, peing de great remedy, antidote and expeller of all diseases, such as vertigine, falling sickness, cramps, catalepsies, lumbagos, rheums, inspissations, agitations, hypocondrics, and tremorcordies, whedder dey come of de head, de heart, de liver, de vena cave, de mesentery or de pericardium, making no difference if dey be hot or cold, dry or moist, or proceeding from terrestrial or genethliacal influences, evil genitures, or vicious aspects of de stars - it is no matter - dey all vanish pefore de great medicamentum. From Wordnik.com. [Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,] Reference
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