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No. 46. 



HEDEOMA PULEGIOIDES 



English Name— AMERICAN PENNYROYAL. 



French Name — Hedeome Pouliot. 

 Germax Name — Poleyblattrige.' 

 Officixal Name — Hedeoma herba. 

 VuLGAK Names — Pennyroyal^ Tickweed, Stink- 

 ing Balm, Squaw-mlntj &c, 



Synontms — Melissa piihgioides Lin. Cunila pu- 



legioides Lin. and many botanists. 



Authorities — Lin. Mich. Piirsh, Pcrsoon, Kalrn, 

 Schoepfj Thacher^ Cullen, Big. seq., Duncan.^ Ebcrlc, 

 Zollickoffer, Chapman, Elliott, B. Barton, ^Y. Bar- 

 ton, M. M. fig. 41. 



Genus Hedeoma — Calix bilabiate, ten striated, base 

 gibbose, upper lip trifid, lower with two subulate 

 teeth and ciliated bristles, corolla bilabiate, upper lip 

 nearly entire, lower trilobe, middle lobe obcordate. 

 Two fertile stamina as long as the corolla, two sterile 

 and short. One style, four seeds. 



Species IL pulegioij>es — Annual, leaves subpe- 

 tiolatc, oblong, acute, subserrate, a little rough. 

 Flowers axillary, verticillate by six, on short pedi- 

 cels, with two small bracteoles. 



DESCRIPTION— Root annual, small, yellowish, 

 brnched fibrose. >Slem upright, about a foot high, 

 with slender erect branches, terete, pubescent. Leaves 



