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SALVIA austriaca. 
Austrian Sage. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Labiate. 
SAL VIA. Suprct, vol. 4. fol. 347. 
Foliis basi cordatis. Bracteis calyce minoribus aut marcidis. 
S. austriaca; foliis ovatis cordatisque eroso-sinuatis; radicalibus petiolatis, 
caule subaphyllo, staminibus corolla duplo longioribus. Hort. Kev. 
ed. 1.1.42. 
S. austriaca. Jacq.fl. austr. 2. t. 112. Willd. sp.pl. 1. 138. Schrad.fi. 
germ. 1. 64. Rom. et Sch. 1. 247. 
Herba 2-3 -pedalis, perennis, ramosa, foe tens. Folia radicalia humifusa, 
magna, cordato-oblonga, sinuata, lobis grossb dentatis, suprd plana glabra 
ad venas pubescentia, subtiis bullata ad venas villosa, petiolo pur pur ascent e, 
suprd piano subcanaliculato, pubescente ; caulina opposita, oblonga, sinuata , 
dentata, utrinque glabriuscula, petiolo canaliculato , piloso, basi connato. 
Caulis quadrangularis, erectus, ramosus, obtusangulus, villis mollibus,paten- 
tibus, glandulisque vestitus. Bracteee sessiles, ova tee, acuta, integree, villosa. 
Verticilli sexfiori. Calyces ternati, pedicellati, villosissimi, bilabiati, striati, 
labio superiore tridentato, inferiore bifido. Corolla pallide fiava, calyce 
duplb longior, galea compressd, villis purpureis rectis sparsis ornatd, labii 
laciniis lateralibus patentibus, oblongis, falcatis, basi pallide violaceis, inter¬ 
media subrotundo, cucullato, corrugato. Stamina longissima, divaricata, 
propb basin calcarata, calcare hinc marginato. Anthera linearis unilocu- 
laris. Stylus filiformis, staminum longitudine, ascendens, apice violaceus. 
Stigma bifidum, inaquale. Ovaria glabra, disco carnoso inserta. Akenia 
glabra, parce mucilaginea. 
No genus is more strictly natural than Salvia, as 
confined to the Asiatic and European species, nor can any 
be more positively defined, even when including those from 
Equinoctial America and Southern Africa ; and yet the 
variation in the shape of the corolla, in the modifications ol 
stamina, in the structure of stigma, and in the form ot 
akenia, and of the discus in which these latter are seated, 
is such as in ordinary cases would divide the plants now 
