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SALVIA hispanica. 



Spanish Sage. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Lariatj£. Jussicu gen. 110. Broiun prod. 499. Sect. I. 

 Stamina 2 fertUia; v. dum 4 fertilia, anthers) omnium dimidiatae. 

 SAL VIA. Suprti vol. 4. fol. 347. 



S. hispanica, foliis ovatis serratis, petiolis utrinque mucronatis, spicis imbri- 



catis, bracteis ovatis ciliatis attenuatis. Vahl enitm. 1. 254. 

 Salvia hispanica. Lin. sp. pi. ed. 2. 1. 37. Etling. salv. n. 18. Willd. sp, 



pi. 1. 141. Hart. Kew. 1. 43. ed. 2. 1. 60. 

 Salvia, foliis cordato-ovatis serratis rugosis, bracteis sub verticillis riorum 



senis calycibus tridentatis. Arduin. spec. 10- 1. 2. 



Caulis sesquipedalis, obtuse tetragonus, quadrisulcatits, relrorsum pilosus. 

 Folia petiolata, bipollicaria, attenuata, per petiolum varum decurrentia, acute" 

 serrata, versus basin integerrima^ rare villosa. Petioli utrinque mucrone ob- 

 tuso. Spica tetragona, tripollicaris vel ultrci. Bractea? longitudine calycum. 

 Calyces scepe quinque sub singula bractea, villosi, canescentes, tridentati, ob- 

 longiy ventricosi. Corolla pallid e ccerulea, calyce pariim longior: galea vil- 

 losa'. Vahl loc cit. 



Native of Spain and Italy. Cultivated in the Chelsea 

 garden in 1739. An out-doors annual; flowering from. June 

 to August. 



The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 

 ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham ; where the seed had been 

 imported from the Botanic Garden at Madrid. 



Stem a foot and a half high, obtusely quadrangular, 

 four-fluted, reversedly furred. Leaves ovate, acuminately 

 tapered, sharply serrated, quite entire towards the tapered 

 base, slightly decurrent along the petiole, thinly villous, 

 about two inches long: petiole with an obtusely mucronate 

 prominence on each side the base. Spike imbricated, 4 -cor- 

 nered, 3 inches long or more: bractes the length of the 

 calyxes, ovate, acuminately tapered, ciliated or fringed. 

 Calyxes often five within the bosom of a single bracte, villous, 

 hoary, three-toothed, oblong, ventricose. Corolla light blue, 

 little longer than the calyx; casque villous. 



