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where are Iwo acute angular ears: petioles long and woolly: the top 

 of the stalk branches out into many footstalks, forming a sort of 

 panicle: the flowers are of a light blue colour, and are ranged in 

 whorled spikes, having two small leaves under each whorl. It is a 

 native of the Canary Islands, flowering from June to September. 



The twelfth rises with a shrubby stalk four or five feet high, 

 dividing into branches: the leaves are ovate, of a gray colour: the 

 flowers come out in whorls towards the end of the branches; they 

 are of a fine blue colour, larger than those of the common Sage, 

 appear in succession most of the summer months, and those which 

 come early are often followed by seeds ripening in autumn. It is a 

 native of the Cape. 



The thirteenth also rises with a shrubby stalk seven or eight feet 

 high, covered with a light-coloured bark, sending out branches the 

 whole length, which grow almost horizontally: the leaves are of a 

 gray colour: the flowers, in thick short spikes at the end of the 

 branches, are very large, and of a dark gold colour. It is a native 

 of the Cape, flowering from May to November, 



The fourteenth has the stem shrubby, four or five feet high, 

 dividing into several branches: the flowers of a pale blue colour: 

 the branches have often punctures made in them by insects, pro- 

 ducing protuberances as big as apples, in the same manner as galls 

 upon the Oak, and the rough balls upon the Briar. It is remarked 

 by Martvn, that the common Sage has the same excrescences in the 

 i.sland of Candia or Crete, and that they carry them to market there 

 under the name of Sage Apples. It was found at Candia. 



The fifteenth has the stem suitruticose, the height of a man, 

 upright, brachiate, somewhat knotty, loosely chapped, ash-coloured: 

 the branches and branclilets opposite, spreading, four-cornered, 

 naked at the base, rufous: shoots four-grooved, green at the top, 

 clammy: the leaves spreading, acute (in the garden bliintish), cre- 

 nate-serrale, somewliat wrinkled, veined, with the midril) and veins 

 prominent only beneath, subcoriaceous, greenish, but paler on the 

 Ijaek: petiole scarcely half as long as the leaf, round on one side, 

 grooved on the other: flowers very many, from the axils of the 



