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6"/^ Diandria. Ord. Mpnogy 
jL. Gen» PL 
Ch 
Cor, insequ 
Filamenta 
erle 
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S. follis lanceolato-ovatis integ 
ilycibus acutis. 
^ 
^•'^ 
*^ V'* 
x" 
icatis, 
: the.ttMk 
and riies above; two 
the leaves are oblong, ,'rpUgh, crenulated,:*6fr 'finely 
otched at the edges, generally of a reddifh Or purplifh'tirige, and 
THE 
perennial 
g 
and nbfous 
) 
firm, divided into manv 
< ^. 
> 
feet 
in 
height 
ftand in pairs upon long footftalks :.,/the flowers appear in J 
terminate the branches in Ion 
and 
tubular, and feparate at the extremity 
theYiare of a blue colour. 
two lip 
monopetalous, 
the upper lip is entire and concave, the lower divides into three 
roundifli lobes, of which the middle 
the largeft : the caly 
tubula 
ments 
g 
reddifh, fi:riated, bilabiated, and cut into 
the two filaments 
Ih 
feg 
d crofTed tranfverfely by two 
others affixed to them ; the antherse are Ikrge and yellow ; the ftyle 
g, filiform, of a blue colour) and the ftigma is bifid ; the feeds 
four, roundifh, naked, and placed' a;t the bottom of the caly 
^ Sage is indiginous to the fouthern parts of Europe, and was 
tivated in this country by Gerard, who firft publifhed a figui 
this plant in the year 1597, ^^^ ^^ is now a conftant inhabitant of 
of 
the kitchen gard 
it h 
a 
frag 
flrong fmell, and a warm 
g an eflential 
bitterifh aromatic tafte, like other plants contamn 
it gives put its properties more perfedly to fpirituous than to aqueous 
menflrua. In ancient times fage was celebrated as a remedy of 
Dners confider it as an 
great efficacy ;* but, at prefent, few praditi 
article of much importance in the materia medic 
and 
Ithough 
frequently employed as a fudorific, it feems to have no advantage 
cc 
Effic 
* " Cur moriatur homo cui falvia crefcit in horto ? 
Contra vim mortis non eft medicamen in hortis." 
^* Salvia falvatrix naturae conciliatrix*'^ 
" Salvia cum ruta faciunt tibi pocula tuta/' 
\ ' 
artuum, par^fi, obftrucllone menftruorum, fiuore albo, arthritide & rheumatifmOj 
morbis contagiofis, apthis, ulceribus, aliifque multis morbls, quorum npmina colligere 
ntereft 
No. 8 
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