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island east of San Francisco whereon is situated 

 the United States Naval Training Station. 



Another member of the Mint Family that helps 

 allay physical woes and that is named for a noted 

 botanist is our Penny Royal, or Monardella. Its 

 species are scattered broadly over the State. One, 

 the odoratissima, refreshes many a hot Sierran trail 

 with its aroma. If its branches be hung around 

 one's neck and under the hatband, the voracious 

 mosquitoes, which linger for three weeks in the 

 locality of each melted 

 snowbank, will be put 

 to flight. A weak tea 

 of Penny Royal is a 

 good substitute for the 

 article of commerce, 

 and a stronger solution 

 is good for colic or as a 

 general blood purifier. 



Monardella is after 

 Nicolas Monardes, a 

 Spanish botanist, who 

 was born in 1512, and 

 who wrote many tracts 

 on the medicinal and 

 other useful plants, es- 

 pecially those of the New World. Living just 

 after Columbus, in that adventurous era when 



PENNY ROYAL 



