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fine effect. These may be trained up to stems, 

 so as to be out of the reach of cattle, and be 

 planted in open places, where, it' they are Fenced 

 against cattle till they are grown up, they may 

 be afterwards exposed. The others, which arc of 

 humbler growth, should be confined to gardens 

 or other inclosurcs, where they may be secured 

 from cattle, ixc. They should only have the 

 ■dar branches pruned in, occasionally as 

 it it. 



PHLOMIS, a genus containing plants of the 

 shrubby and under-shrubby evergreen kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Didynamia 

 Gymnospermia, and ranks in the natural order 

 of f'trtk'iUatcc or Labiates. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, tubular, oblong, fiwe-coruer- 

 ed, toothed, permanent : involucre below the 

 whorl: the corolla one-petalled, ringent : tube 

 oblonor: upper lip ovate, vaulted, incumbent, 

 compressed, villose, obsoletely bifid : lower lip 

 triiid : the middle segment larger, two-lobed, 

 blunt ; the side ones small, mire acute : the 

 stamina have four filaments, concealed under 

 the upper lip, of which two are longer : anthers 

 oblong: the pistillum is a four-parted germ: style 

 the length and situation of the stamens : stigma 

 bitid, acute ; the lower cleft longer : there is no 

 pcricarpium : calyx containing the seeds at the 

 bottom : the seeds four, oblong, three-sided. 



The species are : 1. P. Jfuticosa, Shrubby 

 Phlomis, or Jerusalem Sage ; -2. P. purpurea, 

 Sharp-leaved Purple Phlomis ; 3. P. Italica, 

 Blunt-leaved Purple Phlomis; 4. P. Lycknitis, 

 Sage-leaved Phlomis ; 5. P. laciniala, Jagged- 

 leaved Phlomis; 6. P. tuberosa, Tuberous Phlo- 

 mis; 7. P. Ztylanica, White Phlomis; 8. P. 

 nepetifolia, Cat-mint-leaved Phlomis ; 9. P. 

 Iqomtrus, Narrow-leaved Phlomis, or Lion's- 

 Tail ; 10. P. Lconilis, Dwarf Shrubby Phlomis. 



The first has a pretty thick shrubby stalk, 

 covered with a loose bark, rising live or six feet 

 in height, and dividing into many irregular 

 branches, which are four-cornered, woolly 

 when young, and afterwards become woody : 

 their joints are prettv far asunder; at each of 

 these are placed two roundish leaves opposite, 

 on short footstalks ; they are woolly on their 

 underside: the flov out in thick whorls 



, the stalks, and are yellow ; they appear 

 from June to August ; but the seeds very rarely 

 ripen in this climate. It grows naturally in 

 Spain and Sicily. 



There arc two varieties iw-lcaved 



shrubbv Phlomis, or Jerusalem Sag . which does 

 no; rise so high as the above; the branches arc 

 weaker; the leaves longer, narrower and round- 

 er; the whorls of liowers smaller, but the 



flowers of the same shape and colr.ur. ", 

 have been long cultivated under the title of 

 French Sage, I 



The Broad-leaved shrubby Phlomis, which 

 has a shrubby stalk like the former, but much 

 lower, seldom rising more than three feet and 

 a half high, sending out branches on every side: 

 the leaves hoary, broader than either of the 

 former, of an oblong ovate form, on prettv 

 long footstalks and whiter: the whorls large, 

 with bigger flowers, the upper lip of which is 

 very hairy. 



The second sppcies has the stem rather shrub- 

 by, erect, branched, slightly quadrangular, co- 

 vered with thick wool, especially the younger 

 branches : the leaves are opposite, ovale-oblong, 

 obtuse, crenate, netted- veined, woolly on both 

 sides, but most on the under one ; the lower- 

 most cut off at the base, but not heart-shaped, 

 on long footstalks ; the upper ones on shorter : 

 the footstalks channelled, very woolly : the 

 wool of the whole plant is formed like little 

 stars: the whorls sessile in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, consisting of six or eight flowers 

 which are sessile, the same size with those of 

 the first sort, but pale purple. It has a soapv 

 smell, and is a native of Spain, flowering in 

 June. 



The third has the leaves less distinctly veined 

 on tlie under side than in the second sort, and 

 almost equally woolly on both sides, instead of 

 being green on the upper ; the lowermost are 

 heart-shaped at the base : the bractes are blunt, 

 by no means pungent ; half as long as the calyx, 

 which is alsoj-emarkablv obtuse. It is a native 

 of Italy and Portugal, flowering from June to 

 August. 



The fourth species has the habit of the first, 

 but the leaves are narrower: the corolla is 

 scarcely bigger than the calyx : the involucres 

 linear, crinite with long hairs : the root is hard, 

 thick, twisted: the leaves oblong, russet-co- 

 loured, cottony : the flowers of a golden colour, 

 handsome, and very apparent : the bractes 

 date, acuminate. It is a native of the South 

 of Prance, &cc., flowering from June to Au- 



The fifth has a perennial root: the stalk a 

 foot and a half high which decays in the au- 

 tumn, but the lower leaves continue all the yi ar: 

 the stem leaves are of the same shape with the 

 lower, but smaller: the flowers in whorls: calvx 

 downy : corolla of a dusky purple colour: thev 

 appear in .hme, but the seeds do not ripen in 

 this climate. It was found in the Levant. 



sixth specie.-, has a tuberous ro it ; (he 

 stalks are purp 1 . orncrcdj.five or six fed 



hi«rh : the leaves six inches long] broad 



