SALVIA BICOLOE. 51 



Whatever objection may be urged against the pedantic use of botanical terms, it 

 is impossible to read the above description without being struck by the extent of the 

 information thus conveyed, and which could only have been expressed in ordinary 

 language at the risk of much circumlocution. 



The stalked glands clothing the calyx and other parts of the plant, and to which 

 reference is made in the foregoing description, are common to most of the species, 

 and communicate to them a somewhat powerful resinous odour. It has been stated, 

 that these resinous secretions occur chiefly in plants growing naturally in arid, 

 exposed localities ; their existence on the Escallonia macrantha proves, however, 

 that they are not confined to such subjects. 



The genus Escallonia, the type and chief constituent of the order, bears the name 

 the Spanish traveller Escallon. 



SALVIA BICOLOK. 



Two- coloured Sage. 

 Linnean Class — Didyxamia. Order — Gtmnospbrma. Natural Order — Lariatje. 



We have already, in a former number, expressed our high opinion of the value 

 of the Salvias as an ornamental genus ; and we have much pleasure in now present- 

 ing our readers with a figure of a species, which, if not the handsomest of the 

 family, is nevertheless eminently deserving of extensive cultivation. 



Its blossoms taken individually are, perhaps, less attractive than those of the 

 now common S. patens; but, on the other hand, they are far more abundantly 

 produced, and are much less fugacious, remaining expanded several days after their 

 full development. In any moderately good soil the plant attains the height of 

 four or five feet ; and clothed as it is with very handsome foliage, an established 

 specimen forms, when in flower, an exceedingly interesting object. Its blooming 

 season extends over a period of two or three months, or even longer, if prevented 

 from ripening seed. 



It is, moreover, perfectly hardy, and requires, therefore, none of the attentions 

 necessary to preserve its more tender congeners from the rigours of our winters. So 

 numerous, in fact, are the claims of the Salvia bicolor to attention, that it seems 

 surprising that this species should be comparatively so little known. It was first 



