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5. tenuifblia. — Color, reddish purple. Much like the preceding, 

 with flowers in upper leaf-axils. Stem, smooth, slender, branched, 

 i to 2h feet high. Leaves, thin, lance-shaped, toothed, with 

 petioles, often obtuse or tending to heart-shape at base. June to 

 August. 



Low and moist fields, New York to Illinois, south to North 

 Carolina and Louisiana. Found 4,000 feet high in North 

 Carolina. 



Lyre-leaved Sage 



Salvia, lyrata. — Family, Mint. Color, bluish purple. Calyx, 2- 

 lipped, the upper lip 3-toothed, sometimes entire. Corolla, gaping, 

 deeply cut into 2 lips, the upper straight, slightly notched or en- 

 tire, the lower 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens, 2 perfect ones on 

 short filaments, at whose summits a thread crosses, bearing at 

 one extremity a single anther-cell ascending under the upper lip, 

 and at the other an imperfect but pollen-bearing anther, descend- 

 ing. This separation of the anther-cells by a transverse filament 

 is characteristic of sages. Leaves, from the root, deeply cut, lyre- 

 shape, sometimes entire; on the stem, generally a single pair, 

 small and narrow; near the flower, a few, bract-like. May and 

 June. 



Sandy, open woods and barrens, Connecticut to Illinois, 

 south to Florida and Texas. 



5. officinalis is the common aromatic sage of the gardens, with 

 purplish blue flowers in whorls about the stem. The name is de- 

 rived from salvus, "in good health," from supposed curative 

 properties. An old writer says: "It is good for the head and 

 brain. It quickens the memory and senses. No man needs to 

 doubt of the wholesomeness of sage." 



Wild Bergamot 



Monarda fistulosa. — Family, Mint. Color, purple or white 

 dotted with purple. (See White Flowers, p. 121.) 



American Pennyroyal 



Hedebma pulegioides. — Family, Mint. Color, blue. Calyx and 

 corolla, 2-lipped. The upper lip of corolla is notched; lower, 3- 

 cleft. Stamens, 2. Low, erect stems, with a few flowers in whorls 

 in the leaf-axils near the tops of the branches. It is rough, hairy, 

 stiff, erect, growing plentifully in dry woods. 4 to 6 inches high. 

 Leaves, small, petioled, somewhat toothed, ovate, strongly scented. 



Dry fields and woods, New England southward and west- 

 ward. 



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