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ir/.cr has titled it Scaphyllodcndron Americannm foliis 

 lairri angutlis. Cat. i8. American Bladder Nut ^ with 



tfjrrozv Bay leaves. 



The firft fore grows naturally in North America ; it 

 was firft difcovered in Virginia by Mr. Banifter, who 

 fent the feeds to England, from which feme plants 

 were raifed at Fulham, and fame other curious gar- 

 dens ; but being planted in the open air, they were 

 dellroyed by a ievere winter, fothat there were fcarce 

 any of the plants left in England. In 1724, Mr. 

 Catefby fent over a good quantity of the feeds from 

 Carolina, which fucceeded fo well as to furnilh many 

 gattJens with the plants. This rifes with an upright 

 \voody ftem ten or twelve feet high, dividing upward 

 into many branches, covered with a fmooth grayifli 

 bark, garnifned with trifoliate leaves Handing upon 

 long Voot-ftalks. The lobes are oval, fpear-ihaped, 

 fmooth, and of a bright green on their upper fide, 

 but pale on their under ; thefe come out late in the 

 fprino-, foon after which the bunches of fiower-buds 

 appear, which is generally in the beginning of June, 

 the leaves being then but fmall, and afterward in- 

 creafe in their fize, but are not fully grown till the 

 flowers decay. • The flowers are produced in large 

 bunches at the end of the branches i they are of an 

 herbaceous white colour, compofed of four or five 



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dies. Thi;i fends up feveral tlalks from the roor, about 

 the fize of a man's arm, lending out feveral upriahc 

 branches, covered with a hght brown bark, which fre- 

 quently, fcparatcs frorti the wood, and hangs looic ; 

 they are garnifted with ItifF leaves, which var'y.greaily 

 in their ihape and fize, fome being four inehcs ion 



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and an inch and a half broad ; others are not th._ 

 inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad ; they 

 arc fpear-fhapcd, entire, and of a light green, crowin 





with their^points upward, and have very fiiort foot- 

 flalks. 1 he flowers are produced at the end of the 

 branches in a for: of racemus, each ftanding upon a 

 flender foot-ftalk about an inch long ; they have four 

 foiid channelled petals of an herbaceous colour, hav- 

 ing four ftamlna which fpread open, and in the cen- 

 ter is fituated a roundilh cornprefTed germen, which 

 afterward turns to' a compreffed capfule with three 

 cells, furrounded by a broad leafy border, each cell 

 containing one or tv/o roundifti feeds. ' 

 This plant is propagated by feeds, ^vhich, if ob- 

 tained frefn from abroad, will rife eafily upon a hot- 

 bed : when the plants are fie to remove, they flvould 

 be each planted in a feparate fmall pot filled with lic^ht 



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fhort petals, ending in acute point 



at their bafe to afhort empalement, cut into four fcg- 



' ments almoft to the bottom. In the center is fituated 



- an orbicular comprefifed germen fupporting a fhort 

 ftyle, which is attended by four awl-fliaped ftamlnaj 



' the germen afterward turns to a capfule furrounded 

 ■■■ by a leafy border, having two cells, each containing 



' one feed. \ ' 



: Thefe fhrubs may be propagated by cutungs, which 



t (hould be planted in pots of frefh rich earth, and 



' plunged into a nioderate hot-bed. ; The befl: time 



:■ for planting therri is in the beginning of March, but 



^- they muft be carefully managed fo as .not to have 



• too much heat, and fliaded froni the fun in the mid- 



• die of the day, otherwife they will not fucceed. They 

 ' Iftay alfo be propagated by layers, but thefe are often 



• two years^before they take root; but if good feeds 



• ean be procured either TTere or from abroad, tKe 

 > plants raifed from thofe will 'be' 



- than thofe which are propagated by either of the for- 



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loamy earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners 

 bark, fliading them from the fun till they have taken 

 new root i then they fliould have free air admitted to 

 them every day inproportion to the v/armth of the 

 fcafon, for they mufi: not be drawn up weak, lior 

 fhould they' have too much water. In the autumn 

 the plants muft be removed into the ftove, where they 

 fhould have a temperate warmth in winter, but du- 

 ring that feafon little water fhould be given them ; nor 

 fhould they have too much heat, for either of thef^ 

 will foon d^flroy them : as the plants obtain flrength, 

 they will become more hardy, and may be fet abroad 

 in the open air for two or three months in the heat of 

 fummer, but it fhould be in a fheltered fituation ;^in 

 winter they rniift be placed in a ftove, kept to a mo- 

 derate temperature of warmth, for the plants will not 



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yThis >vas formerly fhewn for the Tea-tree in many of 

 the European gardens, where it many years' palTed for 

 it among thofe who knew ho better. 



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PULEGIUM. Raii Meth. Plant. 6i,W Mentha. 



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 '---Thefe feeds may he fov/n in the beginning of April, 



'■ on a bed of light earth, in a warm ^ftieltered fituation, 



" where, if the ground is moiHened in dry weather, tlie 



{ plants will come up in fix weeks ; but if the feeds are 



■ . fo-wn in pots, and placed on a very moderate hot-bed, 



^r- the |)Iants will come up fooner, and make greater 



.t'progtefs'the firft year ; but they muft not be forced or 



r. drawn, for that will make them very tender ; therefore 



-;, in Jfunc,lhe plants fhould be expofed to the open air, 



' in a (heltered fituation, where they may remain till the 



•Iroft conies on, when thole in the pots fliould be ^i- 



\ to Ihelter them 



ftrohgerr- Tourfi. Thffi. R. H. 189. Lin. Gen. Plant. 633. [This 



.. plant ' takes its name from Pulex, a flea; becaufc 



. being burnt, it is laid to drive away fleas.] Penny- 



! royal, or Pudden-grafs. 



The Characters are, ,- : ■ • 



The 'empakment of the flower h permanent^ of one leaf 

 cut into five parts. The flower is of the lip kind -^ it hath 

 one petal with a fhcrt tube^ divided at the bri'm into four 

 parts \ the hehnet^ or upper lip of the flower^ is entire^ 

 the lower is cut into three equal fegments. ' Tf tmlh four 

 ftaminay two being longer than the other ^ terminated by 

 roundifh fumnits^ and a four-pointed germen^'' fupporting 





ther placed under a 'common 



from fevere froft, or the pots plunged into the gfdtfi?d, ' 

 near a KecTge, that the froft may be prevented from 

 '^penelrating through the fides of the pots to the roo;:s 

 of the plants. .The following fprlng the plants may 

 be planted into a nurfery-bed, at about one foot dif- 

 tance, where they ma^ grow two years, \yj which 

 .-V time they will be fit to franfplant where they are de- 



V' an er€£i ftyky crowned by a bifld ftigma.,^ The germen af- 

 ^ terward become four fmall feeds ^ fitting in the empakment 







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./iigned to remain.. 



7-;The{e' plants are a little tender while they are young, 



"therefore will require fome proteftion the firft and fe- 

 -^ cond yeair, ^but particularly from the early frpfts in 



latitumn, which frequently kjlls the tops of the^ten- 

 -derfiiOpts f>dfore they are hardened'^ and the more 



^ vigorous the plants have grown the preceding fum- 



* mer, the greater dangdr there is of their being killed, 

 - therefore they ftiould be fcree'ned[ cither with rnats"^br 



fome other covering v but as they advance in ftrength, 

 . they become more hardy, and are rarely injured by 



• froft. '^■•*V'^' —•■*.:.:-/ ■." ^' - .: ; ^^;'t ;tU 



/of the flower/'.; 



,.--This genus of plants is* ranged in the fecond fedlion 



of Mr. Ray's fourteenth* clafs, which includes the herbs 

 , %vith whorled flowers which have fcarce anv helm'et, 

 :ibut are cut into equal fegments. Tournefort and 

 '..'Linnseus place this under the genus of Mentha, to 



which it may properly be joined ; but as this is a ti- 

 ,^' tie which has been long known in the fhops and gar- 



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PuLEGiuM (^^f/^^^'/v) foliis ovatisobtufis, ftaminibus 



corollam £e(5uantibus, caule repente. Pennyroyal with 

 oval obtufe lea'tes^ ftamind equalling the petals and a creep- 

 ing ftalk. Pulegium latifoli^m. C. B. P. Common cr 





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ftaminibus 



• The fecond fort grows naturally in both Indies-, it is 



* very common in moft of tlae ifiands in the Weft-In- I i flowers^ 



■ hroad-leQ^ed Pemryrpjal: 

 FvL-EcivfA ri{Ere^um) foliis lanceoiatis, 

 corolla longioribus,' caule erefto. Pennyroyal wit}f 

 Jpear-fh'aped leaves^' flamiha longer than the petals and an 



/^/r/g;>5'//tf//^.*^ Pulegium Hifpanicum ereftum, ftami- 

 nibus florumt extantibus. Aft. Phil. London. Upright 

 Spanifi Pennyroyalj whofe fiamina ftand out from the 



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