PLex.cor, 32. LABIATiE. 121. Pulegium. 361 



III. 121. PULEGIUM. Pliny. Pennyroyal. 



Calyx 5-cut, irregular, not 2-lipped, mouth closed with 

 hairs when in fruit ; corolla little longer than the calyx, 

 4-lobed, nearly equal ; upper lobe not nicked ; stamens di- 

 dynamous, diverging. — Rhizoma cxee^mg; herb aromatic ; 

 whirls pedicelled ; Iractece 0. 



Pulegium afomaticum. Scented pennyroyal. 



Leaves reverse ovate, oblong, blunt, rather crenate ; 

 Jiowers in whirls ; pedicells and calyx tomentose ; teeth of 

 the calyx fringed. 



Pulegium, Rdii Syn. 235, 1 . 



Pulegium regium, Ger. em. 6T1, 1. 



Puleijium vulgare, Park. 29. 



Mentha Pulegium, Lin. S. P. 807. 



Pennyroyal, Pudding-grass. Puliall royal. Organic. 



Inundated places; perennial; September. 



Stem prostratCj much branched, downy, creeping; leaves 

 petioled, blunt ; whirls many-flowered ; pedicells hairy ; 

 hairs short, horizontal; corolla purple; tube white ; stamens 

 exserted. — Herb antispasmodic, used in hysterical diseases, 

 in infusion, or as a distilled water: syrup of the juice used 

 in hooping cough. 



/3. alhim. Flowers white. 



y. erecium. Stem upright; pedicells haiiy; hairs slightly 

 deflected. 



Pulegi um mas, (5er. em. 67 1 , 2. 



Mentha Pulegium 0, Stokes Bot. M. M. 3,320. 



IV. 122. BUGULA. Dioscorides. Bugle. 



Calyx 5-cut, irregular, not 2-lipped ; corolla tubular. 

 upper lip or galea very short, truncated, 2-toothed ; lower 

 3-lobed ; middle lobe large, reverse heartshape ; stamens 

 exserted, ascending; anthers all alike, short, 1-celled; nii- 

 crohasis reticulated. — Hairs short, tranversely parted. 



a. Flowers axillary, spiked; leaves broad; root creeping. 



1 . Bugula reptans. Creeping bugle, 



Stolones creeping ; leaves oval, oblong, baldish ; stems 

 solitary. 



Bugula, Raii Syn. 245, 1 ; Ocr. em. 631, 1, 



Bugula vulgaris. Park. 245. 



Ajuga reptans, Lin. S. P. 785, 



Teucrium reptans, Salisb. Prod. 



Bugula reptans, Scopoli Cam. 



Brown bugle. Sickk wort- Herh carpenter. 



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