352 ORD. XIX. Verticillate. 
SALVIA OFFICINALIS. GARDEN SAGE, 
SYNONYMA, Salvia. Pharm, Lond. & Edinb. Salvia major. 
Gerard Emac. p. 764. Dadon..Pempt. p. 288. Bauh. Pin.:p. 
237. Salvia major vulgaris. Park. Theat. p. 49. _ Salvia latifolia.. 
Bauh. Hist. iti, p. 304. Rati Hist..p. 509, Zeaxsre Theophrast. & 
Eacdiopaxy Dioscoridis existimatur esse. . : 
Varietates, 
“ Salvia major. C, Bauh. » Aliorumque, s: c. 
Common, or Greater Garden Sage. 
8 Salvia minor, aurita et non aurita. Bauh. Pin. 237 , Salvia. 
_ minor, seu angustifolia, Audiorum. 
Small Sage, or Sage of Cater -. 
Class Diandria, Ord, Monogynia.. L, Gen. Plant. 37. | 
Ess.Gen.Ch. Cor. inequalis. Filamenta transverse pedicello affixa. 
Sp. Ch. &. foliis lanceolato-ovatis integris crenulatis, floribus 
spicatis, calycibus acutis. 
THE root is perennial, long, and fibrous; the stalk is shrubby, 
square, firm, divided into many branches, and rises above two feet 
in height: the leaves are oblong, rough, crenulated, or finely 
notched at the edges, generally of a reddish or purplish tinge, and 
stand in. pairs upon long footstalks: the flowers appear in June, 
and terminate the branches in long spikes, they are of a blue 
colour, monopetalous, tubular, and separate at the extremity into 
two lips; the upper lip is entire and concave, the lower divides 
* Both these varieties are used medicinally; and the narrow leaved sage is by 
many preferred to the broad. 
