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pushes back the hood, which is movable, the narrow 

 part below serving as a hinge. The pistil is also 

 longer at length and projects. There are in some 

 cases cleistogamic flowers. 



The fruit is an achene or nutlet, protected by the 

 calyx, and falls, when ripe, near the plant. 



Salvia is from salvo, I heal, the plant being used 

 medicinally, in Pliny's day. Verbenaca, an earlier 

 generic name, means resembling Verbena. 



Clary is called Christ's Eye, Wild Clary, Clear-eye 

 (hence Clary), Wild Clear-eye, Eyeseeds, Oculus 

 Christi. 



In reference to the name Eyeseeds, a writer des- 

 cribes it as " A plant whose seeds, if blown into the 

 eye, are said to remove bits of dust, cinders, or 

 insects, that may be lodged there." 



Clary is from clams, clear. The fruit was put on 

 the eye to clear it. 



Salvia Verbenaca. — In Fig. ^i are shown the oblong, 

 wavy teeth, much wrinkled, and the flowers, borne on 

 terminal spikes, in distant whorls. 



Ground Ivy {Nepeta hederacea). 



Considerable confusion exists amongst the un- 

 initiated as to the identity of Ground Ivy. The real 

 Ivy is dimorphic or heterophyllous and there is a 

 prostrate form which is also known as Ground Ivy, 

 which does not climb up trees or other supports, but 

 trails over the hedgebank and does not flower, the 



