702 LABIATAE (MINT FAMILY) 



calyx slightly larger, the teeth often less spreading. {8. aspera Michx.) Vt. 

 ande. Mass, to Ont., and southw. July, Aug. 



6. S. Nuttallii Shuttlw. Tall, very hirsute on the angles ; leaves cordate- 

 ovate to -oblong, hirsute on the veins, serrate-dentate, caudate-acuminate ; spike 

 very interrupted, the lower fa'ticels borne in the axils of the short-petioled foli- 

 age leaves; calyx hirsute, the spiny teeth nearly equaling the corolla-tube. 

 0. and Va. to Tenn. 



7. S. latidens Small. Stem stout, 6-7 dm. high, smooth, or finely setose on 

 the angles ; leaves ovate-oblong, subcordate, glabrous or sparingly setulose, 

 short-petioled, mostly 1-1.3 dm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, coarsely crenate-dentate ; 

 spike slender and interrupted, the lowest floral leaves large ; calyx pubescent, 

 short-campanulate, with short deltoid firm teeth. Mts. of Va., N. C., and Tenn. 



8. S. arenicola Britton. Stem 3-6 dm. high, copiously retrorse-hixpid on the 

 sides and angles ; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 6-10 mm. 

 wide, densely pubescent on both faces, crenate-serrate ; spike dense, slightly 

 interrupted ; the lower bracts much exceeding the flowers, the upper short, all 

 densely hispid ; calyx hispid, the lobes acicular; corolla inconspicuous, the upper 

 lip hispid. Sandy soil, N. Y. to 111. and Mich. 



9. S. palustris L. (WOUNDWORT.) Rootstock tuberous-thickened, freely 

 stoloniferous ; stem 3-10 dm. high, leafy, hirsute on the angles with spreading or 

 refiexed hairs, the sides more finely appressed-pubescent ; leaves sessile, or the 

 lower short-petioled, lanceolate to ovate-oblong, crenate-serrate, rounded at base, 

 downy or hairy, obtusish, 4-10 cm. long, only the uppermost floral ones shorter 

 than the nearly sessile calyx ; whorls 6-10-flowered, the upper crowded into an 

 interrupted spike ; calyx hispid, the lance-subulate teeth somewhat spiny, half 

 the length of the corolla, diverging in fruit. Wet ground, Nfd. to the Macken- 

 zie, s. to N. C., O., 111., Minn., Col., etc. (Eurasia.) Var. HOM6TRICHA Fer- 

 nald. Sides of the stems and the angles almost uniformly hirsute with long 

 retrorse hairs. N. B. to Ct., centr. N. Y., and westw. 



10. S. cordata Riddell. Stem rather weak, long-hirsute on the angles, 6-8 

 dm. high ; leaves long-petioled, all ovate- or oblong-cordate, acuminate, crenate, 

 7-15 cm. long, the floral mostly minute ; spikes slender, of numerous few- 

 flowered clusters ; calyx small, with very short teeth ; corolla about 1 cm. long. 

 Thickets, s. O. to Va. and Tenn. 



11. S. salvioides Small. Stems closely glandular-puberulent to short-hirsute, 

 3-9 dm. high ; leaves petioled, the petioles glandular-short-hirsute, the closely 

 pubescent cordate-ovate dentate acuminate blade 6-12 cm. long ; spike slender, 

 few-flowered ; the bracts ovate, about equaling the calyx ; calyx-lobes lance- 

 deltoid, about equaling the tube; corolla about 1 cm. long. Stony soil, Va. 

 and W. Va. to Tenn. 



20. SALVIA [Tourn.] L. SAGE 



Upper lip of calyx 3-tpothed or entire, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla deeply 

 2-lipped, ringent ; upper lip straight or scythe-shaped, entire or barely notched, 

 the lower spreading or pendent, 3-lobed, its middle lobe larger. Stamens on 

 short filaments, jointed with the elongated transverse connective, one end of 

 which, ascending under the upper lip, bears a linear 1-celled (half-) anther, the 

 other, usually descending, bears an imperfect or deformed (half-) anther or 

 none at all. Flowers mostly large and showy, in spiked, racemed, or panicled 

 whorls. (Name from salvare, to save, in allusion to the reputed healing qualities 

 of Sage.) 



* Both anther-cells polliniferous ; leaves mostly lyrately lobed or pinnatifid. 



1. S. lyr&ta L. (LYRE-LEAVED S.) Low perennial, 2-6 dm. high, some- 

 what hairy ; stem nearly simple and naked ; root-leaves lyre-shaped or sinuate- 

 pinnatifid, sometimes almost entire; those of the stem mostly a single pair, 

 smaller and narrower ; bracts oblong-linear, not longer than the calyx ; whorls 

 loose and distant, forming an interrupted raceme; upper lip of the blue-purple 

 pubescent corolla (2-3 cm. long) short, straight, not vaulted. Sandy woods 

 and barrens, Ct. to 111., s. to Fla. and Tex. May, June. 



