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1. EUROPEAN PENNYROYAL

Botanical Name: Mentha Pulegium (LINN.), Family: N.O. Labiatae
Common Names: Pulegium. Run-by-the-Ground. Lurk-in-the-Ditch. Pudding
Grass. Piliolerial.
Part Used: Herb.

 From Mrs. Grieve's Herbal:
This species of Mint, a native of most parts of Europe and parts of
Asia, is the Pulegium of the Romans, so named by Pliny from its
reputed power of driving away fleas - pulex being the Latin for flea,
hence the Italian pulce and the French puce. This name given the
plant in ancient times has been retained as its modern specific name.
It is sometimes known to the country-people as 'Run by the Ground'
and 'Lurk in the Ditch,' from its manner of growth.

It was formerly much used in medicine, the name Pennyroyal being a
corruption of the old herbalists' name 'Pulioll-royall' (Pulegium
regium), which we meet also in the Middle Ages as 'Piliole-rial.' It
has been known to botanists since the time of Linnaeus as Mentha
Pulegium.
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