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mier has titled it Staphyllodendron Americanurn iVliis 
lauri anguftis. Cat, 18. American Bladder Nut, with 
narrow Bay leaves. 
The firft fort grows naturally in North America ; it 
was firft difcoVered in Virginia by Mr, JJanifter, who 
lent the feeds to England, from which fome plants 
were raifed at Fulham, and fome other curious gar- 
dens j but being planted in the open air, they were 
defrayed by a fevere winter, fo that there were fcarce 
any of the plants left in England. In 1724, Mr. 
Catefby lent over a good quantity of the feeds from 
Carolina, which fucceeded fo well as to furnifh many 
gardens with the plants. This rifes with an upright 
woody ftem ten or twelve feet high, dividing upward 
into many branches, covered wdth a fmooth grayilh 
bark, garnilhed with trifoliate leaves Handing upon 
long foot- (talks. The lobes are oval, fpear-fhaped, 
fmooth, and of a bright green on their upper fide, 
but pale on their under •, thefe come out late in the 
fpring, foon after which the bunches of flower-buds 
appear, which is generally in the beginning of June, 
the leaves being then but fmall, and afterward in- 
creafe in their fize, but are not fully grown till the 
flowers decay. The flowers are produced im large 
bunches at the end of the branches ; they are of an 
herbaceous white colour, compofed of four or five 
fhort petals, ending in acute points ; thefe are faftened 
at their bale to afnort empalement, cut into four feg- 
ments almoft to the bottom. In the center is fltuated 
an orbicular comprefled germen fupporting a fhort 
ftyle, which is attended by four awl-fhaped ‘ftamina ; 
the germen afterward turns to a capfule furrounded 
by a leafy border, having two cells, each containing 
one feed. 
Thefe fhrubs may be propagated by cuttings, which 
(hould be planted in pots of frefh rich earth, and 
plunged into a moderate hot-bed. The belt time 
for planting them is in the beginning of March, but 
they muft be carefully managed fo as not to have 
too much heat, and (haded from the fun in the mid- 
dle of the day, otherwife they will not fucceed. They 
may alfo be propagated by layers, but thefe are often 
two years before they take root*, but if good feeds 
can be procured either here or from abroad, the 
plants raifed from thofe will be much ftronger 
than thofe which are propagated by- either of the for- 
mer methods. 
Thefe feeds may be fawn in the beginning of April, 
on a bed of light earth, in a warm Sheltered fituation, 
where, if the ground is moiftened in dry weather, the 
plants will come up in fix weeks *, but if the feeds are 
fown in pots, and placed on a very moderate hot-bed, 
the plants will come up fooner, and make greater 
progrefs the firft year , but they muft not be forced or 
drawn, for that will make them very tender ; therefore 
In June the plants fhould be expofed to the open air, 
in a flickered fituation, where they may remain till the 
froft comes on, when thofe in the pots fliould be ei- 
ther placed under a common frame, to flicker them 
from fevere froft, or the pots plunged into the ground, 
near a hedge, that the froft may be prevented from 
penetrating through the fides of the pots to the roots 
of the plants. The following fpring the plants may 
be planted into a nurfery-bed, at about one foot dis- 
tance, where they may grow two years, by which 
time they will be fit to tranfplant where they are de- 
figned to remain. 
Thefe plants are a little tender while they are young, 
therefore will require fome protection the firft and fe- 
cond year, but particularly from the early frofts in 
autumn, which frequently kills the tops of the ten- 
der (hoots before they are hardened ; and the more 
vigorous the plants have grown the preceding fum- 
tner, the greater danger there is of their being killed, 
therefore they fliould be fcreened either with mats or 
fome other covering *, but as they advance in ftrength, 
they become more hardy, and are rarely injured by 
froft. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in both Indies * it is 
very common in rnoft of the iflands in the Weft-In- 
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dies.^ I nis fends up feveral (talks from the root, about 
the fize of a man 3 s arm, fending out feveral upright 
branches, covered with a light brown bark, which fre- 
quently feparates from the wood, and hangs loofe s 
they are garnilhed with ftift leaves, which vary greatly 
in their fliape and fize, fome being four inches long, 
and an inch and a half broad *, others are not three 
inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad 5 they 
are lpear-fhaped, entire, and of a light green, growing 
with their points upward, and have very fhort foot- 
ftaiks. The flowers are produced at the end of the 
branches in a fort of racemus, each (landing upon a 
(lender foot- (talk about an inch long ; they have four 
folid channelled petals of an herbaceous colour, hav- 
ing four ftamina which fpread open, and in the cen- 
ter is fituated a roundifh comprefled germen, which 
afterward turns to a comprefled capfule with three 
cells, furrounded by a broad leafy border, each cell 
containing one or two roundifh feeds. 
This plant is propagated by feeds, which, if ob- 
tained frefli from abroad, will rife eafily upon a hot- 
bed : when the plants are fit to remove, they fhould 
be each planted in a feparate fmall pot filled with light 
loamy earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners 
bark, (hading them from the fun till they have taken 
new root ; then they (hould have free air admitted to 
them every day in proportion to the warmth of the 
feafon, for they muft -not be drawn up weak, nor 
(hould they have too much water. In the autumn 
the plants muft be removed into the ftove, where they 
(hould have a temperate warmth in winter, but du- 
ring that feafon little water (hould be given them *, nor 
(hould they have too much heat, for either of thefe 
will loon deftroy them ; as the plants obtain ftrength, 
they will become more hardy, and may be fet abroad 
in the open air for two or three months in the heat of 
fummer, but it (hould be in a fheltered fituation ; in 
winter they muft be placed in a ftove, kept to a mo- 
derate temperature of warmth, for the plants will'not 
live in a green-houfe here. 
This was formerly (hewn for the Tea-tree in many of 
the European gardens, where it many years palled for 
it among thofe who knew no better. 
PULEGIUM. Raii Meth. Plant. 6r. Mentha. 
Tourn. Inft. R. H. 189. Lin. Gen. Plant. 633. [This 
plant takes its name from Pulex, a flea ; becaufe 
being burnt, it is faid to drive away fleas.] Penny- 
royal, or Pudden-grafs. 
The Characters are, 
The empalement of the flower is permanent , of one leaf 
cut into five parts. The flower is of the lip kind-, it hath 
one petal with a fhort tube , divided at the brim into four 
'parts -, the helmet , or upper lip of the flower , is entire , 
the lower is cut into three equal fegments. It hath four 
ftamina, two being longer than the other , terminated by 
roundifh fummits , and a four-pointed germen , fupporting 
an eredl ftyle, crowned by a bifid ftigma. The germen af- 
terward become four fmall feeds , fitting in the empalement 
of the flower. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fefrion 
of Mr. Ray’s fourteenth clafs, which includes the herbs 
with whorled flowers which have fcarce any helmet, 
but are cut into equal fegments. Tournefort and 
Linnaeus place this under the genus of Mentha, to 
which it may properly be joined ; but as this is a ti- 
tle which has been long known in the (hops and gar- 
dens, fo I have chofe to continue it. 
The Species are, 
1. Pulegium ( Vulgar e ) foliis ovatis obtufis, ftaminibus 
corollam aequantibus, caule repente. Pennyroyal with 
oval obtufe leaves, ftamina equalling the petal, and a creep- 
ing ftdk. Pulegium latifolium. C. B. P. Common or 
broad-leaved Pennyroyal. 
2. Pulegium ( Eredlmp ) foliis laneeolatis, ftaminibus 
corolla longioribus, caule ere fro. Pennyroyal with 
fpear-fhaped leaves , ftamina longer than the petal, and an 
upright ftalk. Pulegium Hifpanicum erefrum, ftami- 
nibus florum extantibus. Afr. Phil. London. Upright 
Spanifh Pennyroyal, whofe ftamina ftand out from the 
flowers, 
3. Pu- 
