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Salvia Cham^drioides. Germander 



Sage. 



Oafs and Order, 



DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. inaeqaalis. Tilamenta tranfverfe pediccllo affixa. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



SALVIA chatmedrioides ; caule fruticofo decumbente, foliis 

 ovalibus crenatis fubtus tomentofis, verticillis qua- 

 drifloris fubnudis, galeis pilofis. 



SALVIA cbamtedrioides ; caule decumbente, foliis ovatis 

 crenatis fubtus tomentofis. Cav. Ic. 2. p. 77. /. 



SALVIA Chamadrys ; foliis ellipticis crenatis fubtus incanis, 

 fpicis interruptis, caule fruticofo. IVilld. Hort, 

 BeroL 29. 



The Salvia Chamadrys of Willdenow differs from the 

 cham<edroides of Cavanilles in nothing but being inferior in 

 fize, in the flowers being oppofite, not four in a whorl, and in 

 the bra&es being perfiftent; whereas in our plant as in that of 

 Cavanilles the fe fall off before the bloflom is expanded. 

 It appears by the figure in the Hortus B> ro'inenjis, that 

 Willdenow's plant was very weakly, which has probably 

 been the caufe of the above differences ; ours in every rejpeci 

 correfponds with that of Cavanilles, from whom we learn 

 that it is a native of Mexicu. 



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