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and the whorls are generally naked: the flowers are smaller, and oi 

 a deeper blue than those of the Common Sage. It is a native of 

 the south of Europe. 



The fourth species has the lower leaves large, in good ground 

 seven or ei^ht inches lone;, and four broad at the base, endintr in 

 blunt poinls: the stems large and clammy, about two feet high, 

 with leaves of the same shape, but smaller, and sending out small 

 opposite side branches: the flowers in loose terminating spikes, 

 composed of whorls, of a pale blue colour. It is biennial, and a 

 native of S>'ria, &c. flowering from July to September. 



It is observed, that " a wine is made from the herb in flower, 

 boiled with sugar, which has a flavour not unlike Frontiniac." 



The fifth has the leaves of a thick consistence, having several 

 irregular indentures on their borders: the stem near a foot and half 

 high, sending out two or four branches near the bottom, which grow 

 erect, the whorls of flowers large, towards the top barren. It is a 

 native of the island of Candia, and biennial, flowering in .June. 



The sixth has a perennial brown root, the thickness of the middle 

 finger, striking deep into the earth, and furnisi;ed Avith numerous 

 fibres: the stems nearly upright, two feet high, set with horizontal 

 somewhat viscid hairs, purplish, especially at the joints: the root- 

 leaves on long petioles, varying in form, oblong, rounded at the end, 

 sometimes a little pointed, not unfrequenlly heart-shaped at the 

 base, but more commonly the leaf runs down on each side the 

 foot-stalk, and to a greater length on one side than on the other, 

 -very slightly hirsute, on the margin irregularly waved and serrate or 

 toothed, paler beneath, veiny and marked with small glandular con- 

 cave dots: stem-leaves somewhat remote, the lowermost on short 

 footstalks, then ppermost sessile: the flowers in whorls, almost naked, 

 containing about six flowers. It is a native of all the four conti- 

 nents, flowering during the whole summer from June, and even iu 

 October. 



The seventh has the lower leaves heart-shaped, acutely crenate, 

 of a thick consistence, seven or eight inches long, and four broad at 

 the base, where they are eared: the stem four feet hisih, having two 



