horse-mint

Everywhere great patches of dingy-blossom’d horse-mint wafting a spicy odor through the air, (especially evenings.)

Horse-Mint. Specimen Days 1892

The streams shrunken to rivulets that trickled through crevices between broad flat stones and oozed through beds of water-cress and crow-foot, horse-mint and pickerel-weed, the wells low, cisterns empty, and recourse for water to barrels and the sunken ponds.

The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891

Thus, in the case of plants we speak of "horse-radish" or "horse-mint," denoting thereby spices which have strong qualities.

Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

Horehound, horse-mint, and the sensitive fern grew close to the edge, under the willows and alders, and wool-grass on the islands, as along the Assabet River in Concord.

The Maine Woods 1858

Everywhere great patches of dingy-blossom'd horse-mint wafting a spicy odor through the air, (especially evenings.)

Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Everywhere great patches of dingy-blossom'd horse-mint wafting a spicy odor through the air, (especially evenings.)

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

During all this time he drank copiously a strong infusion of horse-mint, which was used as a substitute for seneca-root, which our informant said he had seen employed on these occasions, but of which there is none in this country.

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805

(yet not so cool either, about noon) -- the horse-mint, the wild carrot, the mullein, and the bumble-bee.

Good-Bye my Fancy ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

(yet not so cool either, about noon) -- the horse-mint, the wild carrot, the mullein, and the bumble-bee.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855