LABIATE 241 



usually hairy, and whole plant often densely covered with short, 

 hoary hairs. Very polymorphic, and in Switzerland several sub- 

 species and varieties are known. 



Banks, hillsides, and pastures from the plains to 9000 feet. 



Distribution. Europe, Northern and Central Asia. British. 



SAL VIA L. 



Flowers usually in whorls of 6 or more, forming terminal racemes 

 or spikes. Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip entire or with 3 small teeth, 

 the lower one 2-cleft. Corolla with upper lip erect, concave or 

 arched, the lower spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe often notched. 

 Stamens really 2, but easily mistaken for 4, on account of the 

 arrangement of the anthers, which have a long, slender convectivum 

 having the appearance of a filament. 



A large genus widely spread over temperate and warm regions of 

 the globe, being mountain plants within the tropics. 



Salvia pratensis L. Meadow Sage. (Plate XXIX.) 



A handsome plant 1-2 feet high with shortly stalked root-leaves, 

 ovate heart-shaped or oblong, 3 to 5 inches long, coarsely toothed 

 and much wrinkled ; stem-leaves smaller, mostly sessile. Flowers 

 in a long, terminal, simple or branched spike, composed of whorls 

 of large rich blue or deep mauve flowers. Upper lip of calyx slightly 

 3-toothed. 



Dry pastures and mountain-sides, common and often in large 

 colonies in sub-alpine districts, but being nevertheless one of the 

 most beautiful of Alpine flowers. June, July, and again sometimes 

 in autumn. 



Distribution. Central and Southern Europe to the Caucasus, 

 and northwards to Sweden, Northern France, and Kent. 



Salvia glutinosa L. (Plate XXIX.) 



Cymes 2-3 flowered ; flowers dirty yellow, very large, soon fading ; 

 upper lip of calyx entire. Leaves cordate hastate, pubescent, 

 longly petioled, large, crenate-dentate. Stems 2-3 feet high, erect, 

 viscous above. Calyx also covered with viscid, glandular hairs. 



Mountain woods and thickets in the sub-alpine region. June to 

 August. 



Distribution. Alps, Jura, Cevennes, Eastern Pyrenees, Corsica, 

 Europe and Asia from Spain to the Himalaya. 



Salvia verticillata L. Whorled Salvia. 



Flowers small, pale blue or mauve or rarely white, shortly pedi- 

 celled, in dense whorls forming elongated spikes. Calyx violet, 

 hairy, upper lobe trifid. Leaves petioled, broadly ovate-cordate, 

 irregularly crenate-dentate, soft and green. Whole plant usually 

 hairy and disagreeably scented. 



