GARDEN BOTANY. 



Corolla dilated in the throat : flowers densely spiked. 7. BETONICA. 

 Corolla not dilated in the throat. 



Calyx-teeth shorter than the corolla. ... 7. BETONICA. 

 Leaves not cleft or incised. Man. p. 316. 8. STACHYS. 

 Leaves 3 - 6-cleft and incised. Man. p. 317. LEONURUS 

 Calyx expanded into a membranaceous reticu- 

 lated open cup longer than the corolla. 9. MOLUCCELLA. 



1. Salvia, SAGE. Man. p. 309. The common ones in gardens are, 



S. Officinalis, GARDEN SAGE. Woody at the base, hoarv-tomcntose ; 

 leaves elongated-oblong, crenulate, rugose; corolla light-blue* or purplish. 

 Cultivated in kitchen gardens. 



S. patens. Leaves hairy, triangular-ovate ; flowers very large and deep- 

 blue, the lips widely gaping. Cultivated for ornament. 



S. splendens, the SCARLET SAGE, so commonly cultivated and showy, 

 with corollas, calyx, and floral leaves all bright scarlet ; stem-leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, glabrous. 



S. fulgens, the MEXICAN RED SAGE, has a green calyx, leaves cordate- 

 ovate and downy beneath, and deep scarlet and hairy corolla 2' long. 



S. pseudO-COCCinea has red corollas about an inch long, more or less 

 pubescent, the lower lip twice the length of the upper ; the stems hairy ; 

 leaves mostly cordate. 



S. COCCinea, which is wild in the Southern States, is much like the last, 

 but the corollas are glabrous, and the stem as well as the lower face of the 

 cordate leaves hoary-pubescent, not hairy. 



2. O'cimum Basilicum, SWEET BASIL. A low kitchen-garden annual, 

 with ovate-oblong fragrant leaves, and small bluish flowers ; the calyx re- 

 flexed in fruit, and its upper lip enlarged. 



3. Lavandula vera, GARDEN LAVENDER. A low, undershrubby, hoary 

 plant, with linear-lanceolate leaves, and long-peduncled naked and interrupted 

 spikes of small bluish flowers. 



4. Perilla Nankinensis. An annual herb, prized in ornamental garden- 

 ing for its lustrous dark-purple foliage ; the leaves are broadly ovate, coarsely- 

 toothed and crisped ; the purplish flowers insignificant. 



6. Origanum Majorana, SWEET MARJORAM. One of the sweet herbs 

 of the kitchen garden, scarcely a foot high, downy and hoary, with small and 

 roundish leaves, and dense clusters of small whitish flowers. Cultivated along 

 with Savory, &c. 



6. ThymilS VUlgaris, GARDEN THYME. Plant forming perennial large 

 tufts on the ground, with small oblong-ovate leaves, and clusters of purplish 

 small flowers in the axil of the upper ones ; cultivated as a sweet herb. 



7. Betonica grandiflora, GREAT BETONT. A handsome garden peren- 

 nial, with cordate-obtuse leaves, and 2 or 3 whorls of flowers forming a naked 

 spike ; the showy purple corolla 1^' long. 



B. Officinalis, WOOD BETONY, has far smaller flowers, the cordate- 

 oblong leaves coarsely crenate and mostly radical ; spike dense. 



8. Stachys COCCinea, SCARLET STACHYS, of Mexico, with ovate-oblong 

 and cordate leaves, and bright red corollas 1' long, is becoming rather common. 



9. Moluccella Isevis, MOLUCCA BALM or SHELL-FLOWER. A glabrous 

 annual, much branched, with roundish leaves ; flowers in their axils with a 

 small whitish corolla in an immensely enlarged cup-shaped calyx, which has a 

 remarkable appearance. 



