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Of Pennie Royall, or Pudding Grasse

The Description.

PUlegium regium vulgatum is so exceedingly well knowne to all our English Nation, that it needeth no description, being our common Pennie Royall. The Place.

The common Penny Royall groweth naturally wild in moist and overflown places, as in the Common neere London called Miles end, about the holes and ponds thereof in sundry places, from whence poore women bring plenty to sell in London markets; and it groweth in sundry other Commons neere London likewise. The Time.

They floure from the beginning of June to the end of August. The Vertues.

If you have when you are at the sea Penny Royall in great quantitie dry, and cast it into corrupt water, it helpeth it much, neither will it hurt them that drinke thereof.

A Garland of Pennie Royall made and worne about the head is of great force against the swimming in the head, and the paines and giddinesse thereof.