Was it the damp that brought the perfumes of the moorland so distinctly toward them -- the bog-myrtle, the water-mint and wild thyme?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

The plants and grasses he trod were the asphodels, sundew, water-mint his feet had crushed -- crushed into fragrance -- five-and-twenty years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merry-Garden and Other Stories] Reference

Thenceforward it ran by beds of sundew, water-mint and asphodel, under woods so steeply converging that the traveller upon the ridges heard it as the trickle of water in a cavern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wandering Heath] Reference

Further seawards, or rather riverwards, at a place called "Sluis," they are fringed with wild rose and wild plum, and the ditches are deep in rushes, in willow herb, in purple nightshade, water-mint, and reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference