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6 . Menihaflrum folio rugofo rotundiore fpontane- 
flore fpicato^ cdore gravi^ R. 234. Mentha 
fylvejiris rotundiore folio ^ C. 2 27. Menthaftrum^Q, 
E. 683* defer » Elorie-mint, or Round-leav’d Wild 
Mint. It hath fquare hairy ftalks, about half a yard 
high : The leaves are wrinkled, and covered with 
down. It produces little branches about the middle, 
out of the bofoms of the leaves, with a vail number 
of flov/ers, both in the fpring and in fummer, of a 
whitifh red, and gaping, enciofed in indented em- 
palements, and, in their pofition, rtfemble a fpike. 
It is extremely bitter, biting, and afbingent, and 
has a ftrong fmell. 
* 7. Mentha fpicis hreviorihus & hahitiorihus^ 
foliis Mentha fufea^ fapore fervido Piperii^ R. 234. 
Pepper-mint. They call this Brandy-mint in JVeJt- 
mor eland -f. 
Pepper Mint is efteem’d to be an excellent remedy againft the 
Hone and gravel. The diitili’d water is gued for the cholick and 
gripes, 
PuLEGiuM, Pennyroyal. The flov/ers grow in 
thicker whorls than Mint, and are leffer, the up- 
per lip being entire •, and the wliole plant has a 
more acrid fmell. We have but one fpecies of 
this plant, viz. 
* Pulegium.^ R. 235. vulgar P. 29. regimn^ 
G. 545. latifolium., Q. i'll. Pennyroyal, orPud- 
ding-grafs. In moifl places, and where water hands 
in the winter. 
It is hot and dry, of very fubtile volatile parts, and is pe- 
culiarly appropriated to the female fex, being a good uterine, 
provoking the menfes and lochia, expelling the birth and fecon- 
dines. 1 he juice, or a ftrong decodion of the leaves, fweet • 
en’d with fugar, has been accounted a fpecifick againft the whoop- 
ing cough. Mr Ray affirms from Mr Boyley that a fpoonful of 
the juice of Pennyroyal, is a good remedy for the chincough 
in ciiildren. 
Ly COPUS, Water Hore-hound. The empalemenr 
is fhort, and cut into fix fegments: The flowers 
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