CHAP, LXXXVI. LABIA‘CE. 1283 
to doubt of the wholesomeness of sage ale, being brewed as 
it should be with sage, scabious, betony, spiknard, squinanth, 
and fennel seeds.” (Herbal, p. 766.) 
There are several varieties ; one of which has the leaves 
variegated ; another has the whole plant of a reddish hue ; and 
one (fig. 1142.), common in the neighbourhood of Paris, and 
of which there are plants in the Horticultural Society’s Gar- 
den, has leaves larger than those of the species. 
x S, Hablitaana Willd., Bot. Mag., t. 1429., and our 
Jig. 1143., is a native of Siberia, and appears tolerably dis- 
tinct. 
» S. pomifera L.; S. crética frutéscens pomifera Tourn., 
Fl. Grec., 1. t. 15.; and our fig. 1144. ; is a native of Candia; introduced in 
1699. This sort of sage is described as growing 4ft. or 5 ft. high, and 
having pale blue flowers, like S. officinalis. The i 
branches are liable to be punctured by insects; in 
consequence of which protuberances are produced 
as big as apples, in the same manner as galls are 
produced upon the oak, and mossy excrescences 
upon the rose tree. Tournefort says the spikes of 
flowers of this kind of sage are ] ft. in length, and 
that the odour of the plant partakes of the common 
sage and lavender. In the Isle of Crete, the com- 
mon sage is said to produce the same excrescences 
as those of S. pomifera; and the inhabitants carry 
them to market there under the name of sage apples. 
This circumstance, and some 
others, induce us to doubt 
whether pomffera, and several 
other of the alleged species, 
natives of the south of Europe, 
the Levant, and the north of 
Africa, enumerated in our 
Hortus Britannicus, are any 
thing more than yarieties of S. 
officinalis. There are various ‘iss 
half-hardy species, some of which will be noticed in 
! the Appendix to this chapter. 
Audibértia incana Benth., Bot. Reg., t. 1469,, and our 
Jig. 1146., is a curious little evergreen shrub, sent from 
Colombia, in 1827, by Douglas. It grows to the 
height of 1 ft. or 2ft., and produces its pale blue 
flowers from July to September, There are plants in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden. 
App. I. Half-hardy ligneous or suffruticose Species of Labidcea. 
1146 Lavandula Stee‘chas L., Bar. Ic., 301., N. Du Ham., 38. t. 
43., and our fig. 1149., is an elegant little evergreen shrub, 
with conspicuous lilac-coloured flowers. It is a native of the 
south of Europe, and has been known in gardens since the 
days of Gerard. It is commonly kept in green-houses’; but 
it will pass the winter on dry rockwork, with little or no 
protection. 
L. dentita L., Bot. Mag., t.401., and our fig.1146,, is a 
native of Spain; and L. pinndta Bot. Mag., t.400., and our 
. 1147., is a native of Madeira. Both sorts are curious in 
their leaves, and well deserve a place in collections. L. vé- 
ridis L’ Hérit., Fl. Port., 1. t. 4.,is a native of Madeira, with 
purple flowers, which are produced from May to July, 
Plectranthus fruticdsus L’ Hérit. Sert., 85. t. 41., and our 
Jig. 1148., isa native of the forests near the Cape of Good 
Hope, an old inhabitant of our green-houses, and one of the 
few green-house plants that were found in old conservatories 
in France before the Revolution, In that country, among the 
7 old orange trees, pomegranates, olives, and oleanders, which 
are oceasionally found lingering about the few old chateaux that still exist, Plectranthus fruticdsus 
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