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LABIATJE. (MINT FAMILY.) 
3. M. Bradburiiilia, Beck. Leaves nearlij sessile, ovate - 
lanceolate , rounded at the base, clothed icith long soft hairs, especially 
underneath ; the floral and the outer bracts somewhat heart-shaped, 
purplish ; calyx smoothish, contracted above, very hairy in the throat , 
with awl-shaped owned teeth ; corolla smoothish, bearded at the tip of 
the upper lip, scarcely twice the length of the calyx, pale purplish, 
the lower lip dotted with purple. — River-banks and plains, Ohio (?) 
and westward. July. 
* * Stamens not exceeding the upper lip of the corolla: annual or 
biennial f 
4. M. punctata, L. (Horse-Mint.) Minutely downy; 
leaves petioled, lanceolate, narrowed at the base; bracts lanceolate, 
obtuse at the base, sessile, yellowish and purple; teeth of the downy 
calyx short and rigid, awnless ; corolla nearly smooth, yellowish, the 
upper lip spotted with purple, the tube scarcely exceeding the calyx. 
— Sandy fields and dry banks, Long Island and New Jersey. Owe- 
go, New York, Knieskern , and Jefferson county, Vasey. Aug., Sept. 
— Stem 2° -2P high, very odorous and pungent to the taste. 
lO. SALVIA, L. Sage. 
Calyx rather bell-shaped, 2-lipped ; the upper lip mostly 3- 
toothed, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla deeply 2-lipped, ringent; the 
upper lip straight or scythe-shaped, entire or barely notched ; the 
lower spreading or pendent, 3-lobed, the middle lobe larger. Sta¬ 
mens 2, on short filaments, jointed with the elongated traverse 
connective, one end of which ascending under the upper lip bears 
a linear 1-celled (half) anther, the other usually descending and 
bearing an imperfect or deformed (half) anther. — Flowers usua 
ly large and showy, in spiked, racemed, or panicled whorls. 
(Name from salvo , to save, in allusion to the reputed healing qtial 
ities of Sage.) 
1. S. I y rata, L. (Lyre-leaved Sage.) Low, 
stem nearly simple and naked; root-leaves obovatt 
sinuate-pinnatifid, sometimes almost entire ; those of 
single pair, smaller and narrower; the floral oblong-linear, not ongtr 
than the calyx; whorls loose and distant, forming an interrupte ™ 
ceme ; upper lip of the blue-purple pubescent corolla short, stra l® . 
not vaulted. 1J. — Woodlands and meadows, New Jersey to 110 
and southward. June. — Plant 10' - 20' high. 
2. S. urticifolia, L. (Nettle-leaved Sage.) 
clammy hairs, leafy ; leaves rhombic-ovate , pointed, crenate, roun ^ e 
or rather heart-shaped at the base, narrowed into a short petio e, 
somewhat hairy > 
5 , lyre-shaped or 
the stem mostly a 
