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SALVIA 



SALVIA 



one of the most brilliant red-flowered bedding plants in 

 cultivation. It is generally grown in large masses. It 

 does best in full sunshine, but may be used in shady 

 places to light up dark woody recesses. It should have 

 a dark background of some kind by way of contrast. A 

 well-managed mass of scarlet sage may be maintained 

 in full splendor from the middle of July to frost. It is 

 propagated by either cuttings or seed. It is rather 

 troublesome to keep cuttings or plants over winter, as 

 they are particularly liable to attacks of aphis and red- 

 spider. It is, therefore, important to get seed of an 

 early-blooming variety of compact habit, and to sow the 

 seed early indoors or in a frame in time to get good 

 plants to set outdoors in May. A good raceme is over a 

 foot long, with 30 or more flowers in a raceme, and 2 to 6 

 flowers in a whorl, each flower being 2 inches or more 

 long. Some varietes have erect racemes, others pendu- 

 lous, and there are white varieties, together with some 

 intermediate colors. A poorly managed bed of scarlet 

 sage gives a few flowers in September and is cut off in a 

 short time by frost. Wet seasons delay the bloom, and, 

 if the soil is too rich in nitrogen, the plants will make 

 too much growth and the flowers will be late and rela- 

 tively few. The same principles of cultivation apply to 

 other tender salvias used for bedding. Florists some- 

 times lift a few plants of scarlet sage before frost, pot 

 them and find that they make attractive plants under 

 glass for a month or two. One advantage that S. 

 splendens has over many other red-flowered salvias is 

 that its calyx is as brilliant scarlet as the corolla. 



INDEX. 



KEY TO SUBGENERA AND SECTIONS. 



A. Corolla without a hairy ring inside. 



B. Anterior portion of connectives deflexed, linear, 

 longitudinally connate or closely approximate. 



Subgenus III. JUNGIA. 

 Section 7. CALOSPHACE. Species 27-46. 

 BB. Anterior portion of connectives deflexed, 

 abruptly dilated, connected at the callous 

 extremity. Subgenus II. SCLAREA. 



C. Calyx ovoid, the upper lip concave, 2-grooved, 

 teeth 3, very short and connivent. 



Section 6. PLETHIOSPHACE. Species 18-26. 



CC. Calyx tubular or campanulate. 



D. Upper lip of calyx truncate, the teeth small 

 and remote; upper lip of corolla erect and 

 concave. Section 4. HORMINUM. Species 12. 

 DD. Upper lip of calyx 3-toothed, the teeth 

 straight, scarcely connivent, the middle 

 one often very small. 



Section 5. ^ETHIOPIS. Species 13-17. 

 AA. Corolla with a hairy ring inside. 



B. Anterior portion of connectives connected, con- 

 nate or approximate. Subgenus I. SALVIA. 

 C. Calyx-teeth scarcely altered in fr., the upper 

 lip of calyx subentire, somewhat 3-toothed. 

 D. Upper lip of corolla erect, almost straight, 



concave. Section 1. EUSPHACE. Species 1-4. 

 DD. Upper lip of corolla bent or falcate, com- 

 pressed. 



Section 3. DRYMOSPHACE. Species 7-11. 

 CC. Calyx-teeth membranaceous - dilated in fr., 

 the upper lip of calyx 8-cleft or 3-toothed; 

 upper lip of corolla erect or weakly bent, not 

 or scarcely compressed. 



Section 2. HYMENOSPHACE. Species 5, 6. 

 BB. Anterior portion of connectives remote. 



Subgenus IV. LEONIA. 

 c. Connectives very short, deflexed and subulate 



anteriorly. Section 12. HEMISPHACE. Species 52. 

 CC. Connectives directed forward, bearing fertile 



anther-cells anteriorly. 

 D. Floral Ivs. deciduous; bracts minute. 



E. Upper lip of calyx entire or minutely 3- 

 toothed. 



Section 11. NOTIOSPHACE. Species 51. 

 EE. Upper lip of calyx truncate, 3-toothed. 



Section 10. HETEROSPHACE. Species 49, 50. 

 DD. Floral Ivs. persistent and imbricated. 

 E. Lvs. and bracts spiny. 



Section 8. ECHINOSPHACE. Species 47. 

 EE. Lvs. and bracts not spiny. 



Section 9. PYCNOSPHACE. Species 48. 



Subgenus I. SALVIA. 

 All Old-World species. 



Section 1. EUSPHACE. 

 Shrubs or subshrubs, rarely herbs. 



A. Lvs. all entire. 



B. Calyx viscous-pubescent 1. Candelabrum 



BB. Calyx villous or pubescent but not 



viscous. 

 c. Base of the oblong Ivs. narrow- 



rotundate 2. officinalis 



cc. Base of the ovate Ivs. broad-rotun- 



date or cordate 3. grandiflora 



AA. Lvs., at least the lower, pinnatisect 4. ringens 



1. Candelabrum, Boiss. Subshrub, half-hardy: st. 

 shrubby at base, villous: Ivs. entire, petiolate, oblong, 

 both surfaces villous, canescent-tomentose beneath: 



Sanicle elongated, lax; the floral whorls remote, 3-5- 

 d.; calyx pedicellate, campanulate, somewhat 2- 

 lipped, 5-toothed, viscous-pubescent; corolla with the 

 upper lip yellowish, whitish streaked, the lower violet. 

 July. S.Spain. B.M. 5017. F.S. 13:1344. 



2. officinalis, Linn. SAGE. Hardy, white-woolly 

 subshrub, 6-12 in. high: sts. shrubby, the flowering 

 branches tomentose-pubescent: Ivs. entire, 1-1 H in. 

 long, petiolate, oblong, base narrowed or rotund, the 

 lower white-tomentose or lanate beneath or on both 

 surfaces; the floral Ivs. sessile, ovate, acuminate at the 

 base, membranaceous, striate: racemes subsimple; 

 floral whorls few, many-fld., distinct; calyx campanu- 

 late, membranaceous-colored, striate, pubescent or 

 villous, the teeth subulate-acuminate; corolla purple, 

 blue or white. Medit. region. June. A common 

 and variable species. Var. albifldra, Alef., has Ivs. 

 3-4 times as long as broad: fls. white. Var. aurea, 

 Hort., is a compact rather dwarf form about 1 ft. 

 high, with golden yellow foliage. Var. aurea varie- 

 gata, Hort., is offered in the trade. Var. crispa, Alef., 

 has broad, crisped and variegated Ivs. Var. icterina, 



