Salvia. LABIATE.. 500 



baceous or suffruticose plants, aromatic and bittorisli, of various as[)cct, many witli 

 sliowy flowers. 



A genus of about 4r>0 species, fouml in nil pnrts of the world, but mainly in wnnn temperate 

 and subtropical regions. There are about two dozen species in the United States, but only two, 

 and of a peculiar section, have yet been met with in the State of California. 



§ 1. Throat of the calyx viflonsor naked; its upper lip much longer than the lower, 

 more or less incurved, ?>-%tonthed; the lower 2-pnrted ; the teeth all s^pin- 

 nlose-awned : cm-olla riixjent, blue or jnn-ple ; its tiihe with a hairi/ riiif/ inside, 

 and the 7ipper lip '1-lobed : xtamens distant from the upper lip, unconnected; 

 the lower fork of the long filiform connective hearing a polliniferous anther- 

 cell: root miiiual or perhaps biennial : leaves pinnatifid : fowers in solitary or 

 2 to i proliferous dense capitate clusters, whirji are involucrate tvtth j^ersist- 

 ent bract-like floral leaves. — EciliNOSniACE. (§ Echinosjihace & Pycnosphace, 

 JJonth.) 



1. S. carduacea, Bentli. White-woolly with lax cobwebby hairs : stem stout, 

 .simple, a foot or two high, nearly naked, at base surrounded by a cluster of oblong 

 sinuate-pinnatilid and spinuloso-toothed Thistle-like leaves : head-like false whorls 1 

 to 4, an inch or more in diameter, very many-flowered, equalled or surpassed by the 

 involucrate lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate and spinescently pectinate-toothed bracts : 

 calyx long-woolly, many-nerved ; its ample upper lip strongly 3-toothed, the middle 

 tooth much the larger, the lateral ones distant ; the throat villous : tube of the 

 corolla slightly exserted ; its upper lip erose-denticulate and 2-cleft ; the lower with 

 small lateral lobes and a larger tlabeliiform and fimbriately many-cleft nnddle one : 

 l)ropor filaments hardly any : anthor-coUs hairy. — Jlook. Hot. Mug. t. 4874. 8. gos- 

 sypina, Bonth. PI. Hartw. 3.30. 



vSandy soil, not uncommon throughout the western and middle parts of the State to San Diego. 

 Corolla an inch long. 



2. S. Columbarise, Benth, Minutely tomentose or soft-pubescent : stem com- 

 monly sleniler, branching, and leafy below, a span to a foot or two high from an 

 annual root, naked and peduncle-like below, terminated by a solitary or two prolif- 

 erous head-like false whorls : leaves deeply once or twice pinnatifid or parted into 

 oblong and crenately-toothed or incised divisions, pointless, rugose : involucrate 

 floral leaves bract-like and short, ovate, entire ; bracts similar but membranaceous, 

 sometimes purplish, abruptly acuminate-awned : flowers small : calyx naked within ; 

 its largo upper lip arched, hispid at base outside, tipped with a pair of connivent 

 and partly connate short-awned teeth, much exceeding the two small and ])orrected 

 teeth of the lower lip : corolla (blue) hardly exceeding the calyx ; its upper lip 

 merely notched ; the lower with small lateral lobes ; the middle one mucli larger, 

 transversely oval, on a short claw, 2-lobed, and otherwise nearly entire : fdaraenta 

 slender. 



Common through the State, Nevada, and Arizona, especially southward. Corolla 3 or 4 lines 

 long. Calyx with middle tooth of the u]^)per lip always wanting. This is the " Chia" of the 

 aborigines : the sood-liko nutlets, infused m water, form a pleasant mucilaginous drink, which is 

 largely used. 



§ 2. Throat of the calyx naked: anthers with only one polliniferous cell; the lower fork 

 of the connective naked, deflexed into the throat of t/ie corolla, linear or oblong ; 

 the pair more or less united lengthwise or at the tip. (None indigenous.) 



S. cocoiNRA, Linn., an horbaeoous scarlet-flowered species of tropical America, with green and 

 deciduous bracts and loose inflorescence, is not unlikely to bo spontaneous in the southern part of 

 the State, as it is in the Gulf States. 



S. SPLKNDENS, with floral leaves or bracts and calyx also bright scarlet, and S. fiti.okns, with 

 these nearly green and corolla red-hairy, are the common Scarlet Sages of cultivation : but they 

 seem not to have become spontaneous. 



