APPENDIX. 



WHICH ARE CULTIVATED 



JN THE VICINITY OF WEST-CHESTER, PENN, 



ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR USEFUL PROPERTIES. 



CLASS II. DIANDRIA.^ 



1. SALVIA. Genera Plantarim. 50. 

 [Lat. salvare, to save; from its supposed medical powers.] 

 Cal. tubular, bilabiate. Cor. ringent. Sfant. 2 fertile; the filaments transversely pedicellate. 

 IS- OFFICINALIS. IViild. Leaveslance-ovatCjCrenulate; verticils few flowered; calyx mucronate. 

 F«/go— Sagfe. Garden Sage. 



Fl- Middle of June, and after. Fr. mat. Last of July. 



jHa6. Gardens. Perennial. 1 to 2 feet high: flowers blue. iVaiiuc of Southern Europe. 



Ohs. Used as a condiment, in domestic economy. The infusion makes a good gargle, and is otherwise 

 moderately medicinal; but the plant is by no means entitled to the character which, it would appear by the 

 following lines, it once possessed — 



«' Cur moriatur homo, cui Salvia crescit in horto? 



Contra vim mortis, non est inedicamen in hortis. 



Salvia salvatrix, natural conciliatiix. 



Salvia cum Ruta faciunt tibi pocula tuta." 



CLASS III. TRIANDRIA. 



OJlSEa, SISYNIA. 



C!i3" For Agrostis, or Herd's Gr^ss,— which is not much esteemed by our farmers, and very little tu!- 

 livatedj here— See jsoge 10, of this Catalogue: and for a good description, See Torrey's Flora. 



JL. Hermaphrodite, a. Calyx 1 flotoercd. Flowers in Spikes, 



2. PHLEUM. Gen. PI. 109. 

 [An ancient name, derived from the Greek: meaning obscure.] 



Cal. 2 valved; valves sessile, compressed, linear, carinate, truncate, mucronate. Con. includci!. 



* I propose, in this Appendix, to omit all plants which are merely ornamental, or objects of t.iste.— and 

 to notice those only which are cultivated amongst us, at the present day, for the sake of some valuable jto- 

 perty;— either affording ar'icles of food, or raiment,— or otherwise coi ducing to health and comfort. Of 

 these, there are none; within my knowledge, belonging to the class Monanski a.. 



