JULY. 257 
Clary, or Sage. There are only two species of wild Sage 
found in England, one very rare, and this which is less so. 
A chalky or gravelly soil suits it best. It grows from one 
to two feet high, and has very wrinkled leaves, the lower 
being lobed, and on foot-stalks, the upper sessile (not 
stalked) less lobed, but more cut at the edges. A little 
leaf or bractea under each whorl of flowers, calyx large and 
hairy, corolla small, hardly projecting beyond the calyx, 
purple. The rare species, 
SALVIA PRATENSIS, Meadow Clary, or Sage, is found in 
Kent, near Cobham. It is much more handsome, on account 
of the flowers being comparatively very large, the petals 
purple, and three times as long as the calyx. 
TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
GLUMACE. GRAMINACE®. 
PHALARIS. (Canary-erass.) 
PHALARIS CANARIENSIS. Cultivated Canary-grass. As 
many of my young readers may have Canary birds, which 
are so commonly fed on the seed which goes by their name, 
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