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MENTHA PULEGIUM. 
PENNYROYAL MINT 
STNONTMJ. 
Pulegium. Pbarm. Lond. & Edinb. 
R 
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an 
Hijl. 
/• 533- Synop. p. 235. Pulegium latifolium. Baub. Pin. p. 222. 
Pulegium regium. Gerard Emac. p. 671. Pulegium vul 
,are. 
Park. 7 beat. p. 29. Mentha caule proftrato, foliis fubrotundis 
obiter dentatis, ftaminibus exfertis. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n, 221. 
. Mentha Pulegium. Uudfon. Flor, Ang.p. 254. Withering. Bot. 
Arr. p. 602. Ligbtfoot. Flor. Scot. p. 306. Relban. Flor. Cantab. 
p. 224. 
Clafs Didynamia. Ord. Gymnofpermia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 713, 
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EJf. Gen. Cb. Cor. fubsequalis, 4-fida : lacinia latiore 
■ 
Stamina ere£ta diftantia. 
emarginata. 
Sp. Cb. M. floribus verticillatis, foliis ovatis obtufis fubcrenatis 
caulibus fubteretibus repentibus. 
branched 
d about a foot 
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THE root is perennial, creeping, fibrous : the items are fiend 
procumbent, obtufely quadrangular, 
length : the leaves are ovate, obtufe, fomewhat indented, fmooth, of 
bright green colour, and Hand upon fhort footftalks at the joints of 
the flowers are fmall, of a pale purple colour, and furround 
the item 
the item at the joints in wh 
the caly 
tubul 
itriated. ven 
ofe, and divided into five bearded fegments ; of thefe the two 
ppermoit are the largeft ; the undermoft one the lead. The other 
parts of inflorefce 
■g 
with the preceding 
of Mentha 
ady defcribed. It flowers in Auguft and September 
h 
Pennyroyal, like the other mints 
,0 
and moift fitu 
but th 
commonly the produce of cultivation. 
fomewhat iimilar to mint, but more acrid, and lefs agreeable both 
s a native of Britain, afFe&ing 
ufed for medicinal purpofes is 
It has a warm pungent fl 
fmell 
