Tas. 4874. 
SALVIA CARDUACEA. 
Thistle-leaved Sage. 
Nat. Ord. LaBlat#.—D1anpria MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx ovatus, tubulosus vel campanulatus, bilabiatus, labio supe- 
riore integro vel tridentato, inferiore bifido, fauce intus nuda. Corolla tubo in- 
cluso vel exserto, aquali, ventricoso vel ampliato, intus nunc piloso-annulato, 
nunc nudo vel ad basin in latere inferiore processubus vel dentibus 2 instructo ; 
limbo bilabiato, labio superiore erecto vel rarius patente, breviore vel longiore, 
lobis lateralibus oblongis vel rotundatis ; patentibus, reflexis vel contorto-erectis, 
medio plerumque latiore, integro vel emarginato. Staminum superiorum rudi- 
menta nulla, vel parva claviformia ; fertilia (inferiora) 2 prope faucem tubi in- 
serta; filamenta brevia, subhorizontalia vel rarius erecta, apice cum anthera arti- 
culata et supra articulationem plerumque breviter producta, rarissime subconti- 
nua. Anthere dimidiate. Connectiva elongata, linearia, transverse cum fila- 
mento articulata; postice sub labio superiore corolla adscendentia et apice locu- 
lum fertilem linearem adnatum vel versatilem ferentem, antice deflexa vel erecta, 
nunc loculum alterum subconformem minorem polliniferum vel difformem cassum 
gerentia, nune dilatata vel rarius brevissima, acuta, libera, vel seepius variis 
modis inter se connexa vel connata. Ovarii discus antice tumens in glandulam 
lobis subaequalem. Séylus adscendens, apice bifidus, lobis nunc subulatis zequa- 
libus vel superiore longiore, nunc inferiore vel utroque rotundato dilatato com- 
planato. Nucule ovoideo-triquetre, siccee, glabree, plerumque levissimee.—Genus 
vastum, fere in omnibus regionibus terre obvinm, habitu et inflorescentia magnopere — 
varium, semper antherarum structura agnoscendum. De Cand. 
Satvra (§ Echinosphace) carduacea; caule erecto herbaceo subsimplici albo- 
lanato, foliis petiolatis oblongis pinnatifidis subtus laxe lanatis, lobis ovatis 
sinuato-dentatis, dentibus spinoso-acuminatis, floralibus bracteisque imbri- 
catis spinosissimis, verticillastris remotis dense multifloris, calycibus inflatis 
lanatis, corolla: tubo subincluso, labii inferioris lobo medio fimbriato. 
Sazvra carduacea. Benth. Lab. p. 302. De Cand. Prodr. v.12. p. 349. 
One of the most remarkable and easily recognized of the 407 
species of the genus Salvia published by Mr. Bentham in De 
Candolle’s Prodromus. That gentleman says of it, “ Species dis- 
tinctissima, habitu Morine Persice vel Cardui.” It 1s a native 
of California, discovered about the same time by Mr. Douglas 
and Dr. Coulter; and now first introduced to our gardens by — 
Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through a = 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1855. 
