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1; Narrow-leaved Pennyroyal, 
Pulegium anguftifolium. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, long, 
flender, crooked, and whitith. 
The ftalk is firm, upright; not much branched, 
and a foot high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs; but they have 
ufually tufts of young ones in their bofoms: they 
are longifh, narrow, of a pale green; a little in- 
dented, and fharp-pointed; 
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FOREIGN SPECIES. 
The flowers 
they are fmall, 
white: 
The feeds are fmall and blackith. 
Tt is a native of the warmer parts of Europe; 
and flowers in June. 3 
C. Bauhine calls it Pulegium angupifolium. 
Others, Puleginm cervinum, Harts pennyroyal. 
grow in clufters at the joints; and 
and of a very faint bluifh; ofteri 
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Its virtues are the fame with the others. 
IV. 
WATER HOARHOUND. 
TALC POCP- UTS: 
HE flower is made of a fingle petal; which is tubular 
parts at the edge, which form a kind of lips : 
at the bottom, and divided into four 
the upper one confifts of a fingle fegment, which 
is broader than the others, and nipped at the end; the other three fegments form the lower lip; and 
of thefe the middle one is fmaller than the rett. The tubular part of the flower is of the fame 
length with the cup; which is alfo formed of a 
fingle piece; but itis divided into five fegments 
at the rim, which are narrow and fharp-pointed. The feeds are four; and they ftand naked 
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in the cup. F 
Linnaeus feparates this and fome other's from the 
his didynamia; this is one of his diandria monogyn 
the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
ia; the threads in the flower being only two, 
Tt is certain, that there are, 
only two threads or filaments in the flower of Jycopis, 
reft of the verticillate plants, They ftand among 
and 
as this author obferves, 
and there are four in that of pennyroyal. But 
this is a flight mark of diftin@ion. The form and ftru@ture of the flower and of its cup, and the difpo- 
fition of its feeds, agree with thofe of the other, 
This isa plain, 
unnatural arrangement of plants : thefe are both in every one’s way 
peal to thofe who yet are inclined to own his fyftem, 
familiar inftance of that author’s 
to examine ; and from thefe I ap- 
whether pennyroyal and water hoarbound do nor 
evidently belong to the fame clafs, though he has feparated them into two very remote ones in his 
works. Every clafs affords many like inftances. 
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Common Water Hoarhound. 
Lycopus vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of long, 
white fibres, joined to a fmall head. 
The ftalk is fquare, firm, upright, hollow, 
and two feet high: it is of a pale green, and is 
rarely branched. 
The leaves are placed in pairs; and they have 
fhort footftalks: they are large, broad, oblong, 
and pointed at the ends: they are very tharply 
ferrated at the edges, and finuated deeply near 
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Narrow-leaved Virginian Lycopus. 
Lycopus foliis tenuius ferratis. 
The root is fibrous and fpreading. 
The ftalks are numerous, {quare, upright, not 
much branched, and a foot or more in height. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and are of a 
faint green : they are broad at the bafe, narrower 
BRITISH 
SPECIES, 
the bafe 3,and their colour is a ftrong and lively 
green. 
The flowers are fmall and white: they ftand 
in clufters round the ftalks at the joints, 
the leaves rife. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common by ditch-fides, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Murrubium paluftre glabrum, 
Others, Marrubium aquaticum. 
It is deftitute of tafte and fmell, and, fo far ag 
we know, of virtue. 
where 
RETGNS PEC TEs; 
j tothe point, and very elegantly ferrated at the 
edges. 
The flowers are {mall and whitif: the feeds 
are oblong and brown. 
It is frequent ‘in the wet grounds in North 
America, and flowers in June. 
Gronovius calls it Lycopus foliis lanceolatis te- 
nuiffime ferratis. 
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