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sometimes climbs, but more commonly trails along the ^round 

 and over low-growing plants. The leaves are stalked, arrow- 

 shaped, about an inch and a half long, with sharp, spreading lobes 

 at the base. The axillary peduncles are usually forked, with a 

 single flower on each of the two branches ; and there are two 

 small bracts at 

 the angle of 

 the fork, and an- 

 other one or a 

 pair above these, 

 but some dis- 

 tance below the 

 flowei', on each 

 branch. The 

 calyx is very 

 small, but the 

 salve r-s h a p e d 

 corolla is usually 

 over an inch in 

 diameter, either 

 pink or pinkish 

 white. The 

 plant flowers 

 fro m June to 

 August. 



The Meadow 

 Clary ( Salvia 

 pratensis — order 

 Lahiatce), shown 

 on Plate IV, 

 Fig. 6, is a rather 

 rare plant, 



apparently to be seen only in the dry fields of Oxfordshire, Kent, 

 Surrey, and the extreme south-west of England ; but it is one 

 of the most handsome of the Labiates. Its stem is erect, from 

 one to two feet high. The radical leaves are large, stalked, 

 ovate or cordate, toothed, and much wrinkled ; and the stem- 

 leaves few, ovate or lanceolate, acute, the upper ones sessile. The 

 flowers are arranged in whorls of from four to six at regular 

 distances, the whole forming a long, simple or branched spike. 

 The calyx is divided into two lips, the upper of which has 



THE Sneeze-wout. 



