24 SALVIA. [class u. order i. 



bearing a perfect single- celled anther. Name a derivative of 

 salvere, to be in good health ; in allusion to the cordial or health- 

 restoring properties of the species of this genera. 



1. S. Verbena' ca, (Fig. 35.) wild English Clary, or Sage. Leaves 

 sinuated, serrated, and rugose, corolla contracted, and but little 

 longer than the calyx. 



English Botany, t. 154. — English Flora, vol. i. p. 35. — Lindley, Sy- 

 nopsis, p. 197. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 11. 



Stem from one to two feet high, four-cornered, branched and downy. 

 Leaves ai'omatic, wrinkled with veins, and more or less downy, the 

 lower stalked and ovate, the upper ones sessile, acute, scarcely lobed, 

 but more deeply serrated. Bracteas two under each whorl of flowers, 

 as long as the calyx, cordate, acute, ciliated. Calyx hairy, terminating 

 in a fine point or mucro. Corolla purplish blue, small, upper lip con- 

 cave, compressed, lower three lobed, the middle one the largest. 



Habitat. — In waste land, meadows, and road sides, especially in a 

 gravelly or chalky soil, common. In Scotland very rare, Salisbury 

 Craigs, Burntisland, and Corstorphin. 



Perennial ; in flower from June to September. 



The seeds of this plant produce a great quantity of mucilage when 

 moistened with water, which is innocuous and insipid; it has been used 

 for the purpose of removing dust and sand from under the eye-lids, 

 and, by its enveloping the particles, removes them with safety, from 

 which property it has derived the name of Clary, or clear-eye. 



2. <S^. praten'sis, (Fig. 36.) Meadoiv Clary or Sage. Leaves oblong, 

 unequally crenate, stalked, upper ones sessile, clasping the stem, 

 bracteas small, caly.K much shorter than the corolla, which is 

 glandular at the summit. 



English Botany, t. 153. — English Flora, vol. i. p. 34. — Lindley, Sy- 

 nopsis, p. 197. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 11. 



Whole plant more or less downy, with but little scent, from one to 

 two feet high. Stem square. Lower leaves oblong, cordate at the base, 

 stalked, upper sessile and lanceolate. Flowers in numerous whorls. 

 Calyx short. Corolla purplish blue, large, and beautiful. 



Habitat. — Dry meadows and hedges, England, very rare ; near 

 Cobham, in Kent. Our drawing is made from a specimen in the col- 

 lection of the ShefFiekl Literary and Philosophical Society, which ap- 

 pears to have been communicated l)y the late Mr. Sowerby. 



Perennial ; flowering in July. 



This plant is frequently cultivated in gardens, and is a very pretty 

 border flower, flourishing best in a rather dry and sandy soil, and in- 

 creasing, like most other labiate plants, by suckers as well as seed. 



The genus Salvia, although containing only two British species, and 

 these of little or no value, either as condiments or medicine, is never- 



