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Gundelia tournefortii, Noaea mucronata, Thymus spp., and Salvia cryptantha – often in oak forest clearings; various graminoid formations; and high mountain steppes of Achillea vermicularis, Ajuga chia, Helianthemum nummularium, Malcolmia africana, and Marrubium parviflorum.
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Horehound Horehound, so called for its hairy white hoary leaves, is a Eurasian species, Marrubium vulgare, with a musky and bitter flavor, more often used in candies than in cooking.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Horehound Horehound, so called for its hairy white hoary leaves, is a Eurasian species, Marrubium vulgare, with a musky and bitter flavor, more often used in candies than in cooking.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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= Hoarhound =, or = horehound = (_Marrubium vulgare_, Linn.), a perennial plant of the natural order Labiatæ, formerly widely esteemed in cookery and medicine, but now almost out of use except for making candy which some people still eat in the belief that it relieves tickling in the throat due to coughing.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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Marrubium Vulgare (white horehound), Teucrium Scorodonia
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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The White Horehound (_Marrubium_) is a common square-stemmed herb of the Labiate order, growing in waste places, and of popular use for coughs and colds, whether in a medicinal form, or as
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Next come the Labiatae: Marrubium vulgare, or common white horehound; Ballota fetida, or stinking horehound; Calamintha nepeta, or lesser calamint; Salvia aethiopis, or woolly sage.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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It is fortunate we did not light a fire; had we done so it might have brought some of the troops from Marrubium, which cannot be far distant from here, upon us.
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The Marrubium was called by the Egyptian Priests the "Seed of
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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More than that, troops from Corfinium and Marrubium had started to search the eastern slopes, and between them they made sure that they should catch you, now that they had found, by the heat of the earth where our fire had been, that we must have been there but an hour or so before their arrival. "
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