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f 3 Pulegium angtifti folium . 
Narrow leafed Pennie Royall. 
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3 The third kinde of Pennie Royall grovves like 
vnto Tyme,and is of a wooddie lubftance,fomewhat 
likevnto the thinne leafed Hyflope,of the fauour of 
common Pennie Royall, f; but much ftronger and 
more pleafant: the longifh narrow leaucs ftandvpon 
the ftalkes by couples, with little leaues comming 
forth of their bofomes : and towards the tops of the 
branches grow rundles of fmall purple flonres. This 
grows plentifully about Montpellkr,and by the Au. 
thors of the Aduerfiriopi ho firft fet it forth , it is Ri- 
led Pulegium, anguflifol .five ceruinum Monfyclicnfium.% 
m The Place. 
The firlf and common Pennie Royall groweth na- 
turally wilde in moift and ouerflown places, as in the 
Common neere London called Miles end, about the 
holes & ponds thereof in fundry places, from whence 
poore women bring plentie to fell in London mar- 
ketsjand it groweth in fundrie other Commons neere 
London likevvife. 
The fecond groweth in my garden : the third I haue not as yet feene. 
The Time. 
They floure from the beginning of Iune to the end of A uguft. 
The Names . 
Pennie Royall is called in Greeke jA^r.and oftentimes .■ in Latine, P ulegijimfxvid Pulggium 
regale, for difference fake betweene it and wilde Tyme, which of fome is called Pittevutm moot, mum : 
in Italian/#/^ in Spanifh,P»/r«.- in Dutch,$o!ej> Jin French, Pouliot : in Engfiilr, Pennie Roy- 
all, Pudding grafle,Puliall Royall,and of fome Organic. 
'l he Hature. 
Pennie Royall is hot and drie in the third degree, and of fubtill parts, as Galen faith. 
T he Verities. 
Pennie Royall boiled in wine and drunken,prouoketh the monthly termes,bringeth forth the fe- 
condine,the dead childe and vnnaturall birth : it prouoketh vrine,and breaketh the ftone,efpecial- 
ly ofthekidneies. 
Pennie Royall taken with honie elenfeth the lungs, and cleereth the bread: from all grofle and 
thicke humours. 
The fame taken with honie and Aloes, purgeth by ftoole melancholie humours jhelpeth the 
crampe and drawing together of finewes. 
The fame taken with water and Vineger aflvvageth the inordinate defiie tovomite,& the pains 
of the ftomacke. 
If you haue when you are at the fea Pennie Royal in great quantitie drie, and calf it into corrupt 
water,ithelpeth itmuch,neithep will it hurt them that drinke thereof. 
A Garland of Pennie royall rpade and worne about the head is of great force again!! the fwim- 
ming in the head, the paines and g'iddinefle thereof. 
The deco&ionof Pennie Royall is very good againff ventofitie, windine(fe,or fuch like, and a- 
gainfl thehardnes 8 c flopping of the mother being vied in a bath or flew for the woman to li touer. 
t It Is apparant by the titles and deferiptionsthatour Anthour in this chaptfc followed Label but the figures were not agreeable to the h'fiorie, for the two fit ft 
figures were of the Tw/egwra *A”gt<flifolium deferibed in the third place; and the third figure was ohhzMariem fuprnum deferibed in the 1*11 place of the foregoing 
Chapter, 
Chap. zzz. Of Ba fill. 
The Dcfcription, 
i f * Arden Bafill is of two forts, differing one from another in bignefle. The firfl hath 
broad, thicke, and fat leaues,of a pleafant fvveet fmell,and of which fome one here and 
there are of a black reddifh colour, fomewhac flipped about the edges, not \ nlike the 
leaues of French Mercuric. The ftalke groweth to the height of halfeacubite,diuidingit felf in- 
to diners branches, whereupon doe Hand fmall and bafe floures fometimes whitifli, and often ten- 
ding to a darke purpIe.The root is threddie,and dieth at the approch of Winter. 
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