702 liABiATAE (^n^'T family) 



calyx slightly larger, the teeth often less spreading. (S. aspera Michx.) — Vt. 

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



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

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

 very interrupted, the lower verticels borne in the axils of the short-petioled foli- 

 age h-aves; calyx hirsute, the spiny teeth nearly equaling the corolla-tube. — 

 O. and Va. to Tenn. 



7. S. Idtidens Small. Stem stout, G-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-campaiiulate, with short deltoid firm teeth. — Mts. of Va., N. C, and Tenn. 



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

 sides and angles ; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 5-10 mm. 

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

 internipted ; the lower^bracts much exceeding the flowers, the upper short, ail 

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

 lip hispid. — Sandy soil, N. Y. to III. and Mich. 



9. S. paliistris L. (Wouxdwort.) Rootstock tuberous-thickened, freely 

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

 reflexed 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 INIacken- 

 zie, s. to N. C, O., 111., Minn., Col., etc. (Eurasia.) Var. homotricha. 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, loith 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-J) dm. high ; leaves petit»led, the petioles glandular-short-hirstite, 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-toothed or entire, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla deeply 

 2-lipped, ringent ; upper lip straight or scythe-shaped, entire or bartly 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 upi)er lip, bears a linear 1-celled (half-) anther, the 

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

 nojic at all. — Flowers mostly large and showy, in spiked, racenicd, or panicled 

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

 of Sage.) 



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



1. S. lyrata L. (Lyrp>leavi:d 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 ; tho.se of the stem mostly a single pair, 

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

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

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

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



