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MUGWORT Artemisia valearts DF Is. ee a a ot es P 
Yellow flowered plants with fragrant foliage grows about 3 ft. tall and is used 
as tonic. 
OLD FASHIONED MINT Sce SPEARMINT. 
PENNYROYAL, ENGLISH Mevtha pulegium . . P 
Low growing plants with lilac flowers; leaves used in teas and puddings; also 
the medicinal used in menthol pencils and headache cures. 
PENNYROYAL, AMERICAN Hedeoma pulegioides . . . .« . . . P 
Upright plants with narrow, fragile light green leaves; uses are similar to 
ENGLISH PENNYROYAL. 
PURSLANE?Portiiaca SaXi] Tava SO ek cs hea ee ns ho 
Spreading, tender, fleshy stemmed, small leaved, rapidly growing plants used 
in salads or cooked as. ‘‘greens’’; has mild acrid flavor. 
RAMPION®Gam punulal fapunculids; ae ne 
Leaves and fleshy roots used in salads; lavender, bell shaped flowers. 
ROQUETTE: Barbaredvidl oarise Set Ta Oe 3 ee 
Hardy plants with dull green, thick, pungent, strongly flavored leaves used 
for -oteens. « | 
ROSEMARY Kosemarinus officinalis. . B 
Plants 2-3 ft. tall with dark, very glossy green foliage and tiny light blue flowers; 
spicy nutmeg aroma and warm balsam taste; leaves used as seasoning in meats 
and soups and the extracted oils of the blossoms are used in toilet waters. 
RU ERAS CBU COLI ise gee al ie ae en. aa a ee 
Hardy bushy plants 18-24” tall having disagreeable odor and bitter acrid flavor; 
used in medicines, beverages and as seasoning for vinegar; bluish green, lacy 
leaves and yellow blossoms. 
RUSSIAN: TARRAGON Artemisia sacrorai =, ee ee 
This annual form grown in Russia is easily grown from seed and gives same 
flavor as TRUE TARRAGON. A. annua, AMBROSIA, also a fragrant annual which 
is self sowing. 
SAFFRON, AMERICAN or SAFFLOWER Carthamus tinctorins . . . . A 
Plants 11/,-3 ft. tall, erect, branched, woody stemmed, profusely flowering with 
orange yellow thistle-like blossoms which are used for silk dyes, cosmetics, and 
food coloring; oil pressed from seed used like olive oil; leaves used for flavoring. 
SAGE, BROAD LEAF Salvia officinalis... 9) a ee 
Plants 2a Oe tall, hardy, spreading, silvery gray green foliage; has pleasant 
aromatic odor and mildly pungent flavor; most commonly used of all the herbs: 
used in sausage, cheese, dressings, and teas; salviol oil counteracts effects of 
fatty foods. 
SPEARMINT or OLD FASHIONED MINT Mevtha viridis. P 
Plants 15-20” tall spread rapidly by rhizomes; tips of yeni hes, used in dnaky 
sauces and juleps. 
