102 SWISS FLOWERS. 



P. tuberosa is a cream-coloured beaked species, with a 

 prominent style ; not uncommon. P. incarnatais a handsome 

 plant from nine to eighteen inches high. The stem is leafy ; 

 the leaves are deeply divided, and look almost like those of 

 a small fern. The flowers are in a long rather loose spike, 

 bright rose colour, with a long beak of a darker shade, and 

 rather cut off at the end. Rare. Monte Pennino, Ronche, 

 Great St. Bernard, Zermatt. They all turn black in drying. 



81. Salvia.— Sage. 



(PLATE XLir.) 



Well known as the common Sage of our kitchen-gardens^ 

 and as the scarlet and blue ornaments of our flower-beds. 

 The family is distinguished from all the other Labiatae (two- 

 lipped flowers) by its singular stamens. There are properly 

 only two, with very short filaments ; these filaments bear on 

 them at right angles a kind of tube, at one end of which is 

 a perfect anther, the other, which hides itself in the lower 

 lip, having nothing, or a deformed abortive cell. 



S. pratensis (Fig. 81) is found abundantly in France, but 

 it is scarcely known in England ; its flowers grow in a long 

 spike of leafless whorls, about six in a whorl, of a fine blue, 

 sometimes purplish, colour. Calyx with short bracteas and 



