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LAMIACEAE. 



1. Salvia coccinea L. Scarlet Sage. 

 (Fig. 350.) Annual, softly pubescent. Stems 

 erect, l°-2i° tall, simple or sparingly branched. 

 Leaves ovate or deltoid-ovate, l'-2^' long, 

 obtuse or acutish, crenate-serrate, truncate to 

 subcordate at the base; panicles 2'-8' long; 

 pedicels l"-3" long, slender; calyx minutely 

 pubescent, 5"-6" long, its tube many-ribbed, 

 the upper lip leniform, abruptly pointed, the 

 lower lobes ovate, apiculate; corolla deep scar- 

 let, about 1' long, puberulent, the tube con- 

 tracted above the base, then gradually enlarged, 

 the lower lip merely notched at the apex; 

 nutlets about 1" long, slightly variegated. 



Common on banks and along roads. Natural- 

 ized. Native of the southern United States and 

 Mexico. Flowers from spring to autumn, the 

 corolla soon falling away after expanding. 



2. Salvia serotina L. Small White 

 Sage. (Fig. 351.) Perennial, finely pubes- 

 cent. Stems 6'-2i° tall, much branched; leaves 

 ovate or orbicular-ovate, -I'-lf long, obtuse, 

 crenate-serrate, truncate or subcordate at the 

 base, slender-petioled ; panicles l'-4' long; 

 calyx longer than the pedicels, glandular-hir- 

 sute, becoming 3"-4" long; lips about J as 

 long as the long-campanulate tube; corolla 

 white or blue, 3"-5" long, its tube included; 

 style glabrous; nutlets fully 1" long. [S. 

 tenella of Millspaugh.] 



Common in waste grounds. Naturalized. Na- 

 tive of Florida and the West Indies. Flowers 

 from spring to autumn. 



Salvia occidentalis Sw., West Indian, a 

 trailing species with a very small glandular 

 calyx, light blue corolla about 3" long, the 

 flowers in racemed whorls, the ovate serrate 

 leaves 1' long or less, is recorded by Hemsley 

 as collected in Bermuda by Lane, and at Wal- 

 singh'km by Moseley, but no subsequent col- 

 lector has found it. Lefroy thought that Lane 's plant was probably S. coc- 

 cinea, and Moseley 's specimen could not be found in the Kew Herbarium in 

 1910. 



Salvia splendens Sellow, Scarlet Salvia, Scarlet Sage, Brazilian, much 

 grown for ornament, is 2°-3° high, with slender-petioled thin ovate acumi- 

 nate serrate glabrous leaves 2'-4' long, and terminal racemes of large scarlet 

 flowers, the calyx about f long, the tubular corolla li'-2' long. 



