216 Dr. Suita’ $ Obfervations on 
then only to be determined by gusti; and Dillenius has merely copied | 
it into his edition of the Synop/s without any additional remark. 
Bobart, as I have already mentioned, once took the variegated gemis 
of the gardens to be the Mint of Vernon. I know not that this un- 
certainty can ever be-removed, except fome old herbarium thould 
E. unexpectedly afford an original fpecimen. 
 — ¢ is a very remarkable plant, for which Iam obliged to Mr. Sole, 
the only perfon I believe who has found it; and I have been much 
inclined to make it, as he does, a diflin& fpecies. Its leaves are very 
broad and almoft heart-fhaped, marked with ftrong parallel veins ` 
which. render them rugofe. The ftamina are fhorter than the co- 
= rolla. In every other particular, even in fmell, it agrees perfectly 
with M. arvenfis, efpecially in the calyx and flower-ftalk ; and I think 
it mutt be confidered as a variety, for I have abundant proofs that 
the fhape of the leaves is more liable to vary in this fpecies than 
13. MENTHA Pulegium. 
Penny-Royal. | 
M. floribus. verticillatis, foliis ovatis, caule proftrato, pedicellis caly- 
cibufque undique tomentofis : dentibus ciliatis. 
Mentha Pulegium. Linn. Sp. PI. 807. Hudf. 254. Wit. 525. 
— Hull: 130. Relb, 224. Sibtb. 182. -Wacdv. Med. Bot. 1. ue 
Sole Mentb. 51. t. 23. 
Pulegium. Rai: Syn. ed. 1. 79. ed. 2. 125. ed.. 3. 235. How. 
Phyt. 99. Merr. Pin. 99. Bauh., Hifl. v. 3. f. 2. 256. Fue. 
Hi; jf. 198. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 23. ft I. 
P. regium. Ger, em. 671. 
-  Pulegium, erba, flos, Pharmac. Lond, - 
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