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DIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Salvia. 



Water 



9 



on the banks of streams and ponds. 



Horehound Gypsie-<wort. Sandy ground 



J 



praten'sis. 



Leaves 



SAI/VTA. Bloss. gaping : Filaments fixed trans- 

 versely to a little foot- stalk. 



heart- oblong ; scolloped; upper leaves em- 

 bracing the stern : flowers in whirls with hardly 

 any intermixture of leaves : helmet of the blossom 

 gummy. 



E. hot. \h3~Fuch. 569~Trag. 53-ZW. 293. 1-G*r. em. 

 769. 3-Ri<v. 36-Kniph. 5-Ger. 627. 3~H. ox. xi. 13. 10 



^Clus. ii. 30. \~Ger. em. 77 \ 

 (Blackw. 258, is S. <verhenaca.) 



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Floral leaves about the length of the calyx. Cat. spread 

 open. Bloss. bluish purple, 4 times as large as the calyx ; helmet 

 hooked like the handle of a walking stick. Its gumminess is 

 not a constant circumstance, and therefore ought not to make a 



part of the specific character. 



Mead+w 

 and Sussex, common. St. 



SWAYNE.J 



Meadows and pastures. [Surry 

 Wick-clifts, Gloucestershire. Mr. 



P. June, July* 



verbena'ca. S. Leaves indented, serrated, smoothish : blossom more 



slender than the calyx. 



Curt.-E. hot. 154-C/zw. ii. 31. 1-Ger. em. 771. \-ParL 

 57. 8-BJack. 258~Barr. 20S-H. ox. xi. 14. 33. 



Floral leaves longer than the calyx. Cal. much wider than 

 the tube of the blossom, but its segments not expanded and spread 

 open. Bloss. not twice the length of the calyx ; blue. 



Wild Clary. Wild Sage. Meadows and pastures. [Keg- 

 worth Church-yard, Leicestershire, and about Chester. Mr* 

 Cajley. — About Kinfare, Staffordshire ; plentiful. Mr. Brunton. 





On the Castle hill, Tamworth.] 



P. June.t 



It dyes black. The juice gives a permanent colour to linen, wool, 

 and silk, which will not washout; travelling gypsies stain their faces 

 with it. Sheep and goats eat it. — Cows and horses refuse it. The Cassida 

 viridls feed s u pon it. 



t The seeds when soaked in water for a few minutes get a dense mu- 

 cilaginous coating round them not unlike frog spawn. The seeds of the 



S. ratensis have the same property, but in a less degree. 



