SAGE. SALVIA. 

 WILD SAGE. Salvia verbenaca. 



Plate 1, fig. 8. 



There are nearly two hundred species of Sage, all of which 

 have gaping flowers, like the plants of the fourteenth class. 

 Two species grow in Britain ; one of them, Salvia pratensis, 

 is very rare the other, called Wild Clary, or Wild Sage, is 

 common on dry places and in meadows. Its leaves are a little 

 wrinkled, scolloped, and serrated. The flowers are in whirls 

 on the upper part of the stem ; each whirl with two small leaves 

 under it. The calyx is large, hairy, and cut into five notches ; 

 two of which are much deeper* than the others. The blossom 

 is small, violet colored, two-lipped, but not opening wide. The 

 plant grows one or two feet high, and may be found in flower 

 almost all the summer. Another name for these two, and other- 

 species of Sage, is Clary, or Clear-eye. The reason of this 

 curious name is, that the seeds when wetted become, in a 

 minute or two, sticky and covered with a mucilage or soft jelly- 

 like substance. Thus should dust get into the eye, one of the 

 seeds of Sage being placed near it, it will soon inclose the dust, 

 and both may be wiped away together. 



ENCHANTER'S NIGHT-SHADE. CIRC^EA. 



COMMON ENCHANTER'S NIGHT-SHADE. Circtea lutetiana. 



Plate I, fig. 9. 



Has very pretty and curious pink and white flowers ; it grows 

 in shady places, such as hedge-rows and woods flowering in 

 June, July, and August. The leaves are egg-shaped, a little 

 toothed. Calyx of two leaves, which are turned back. Blossom 

 of two heart-shaped petals. Flower stalks bent downwards when 

 in fruit. The plant is more or less hairy all over, particularly 

 on the upper part of the stem and on the calyx, the hairs of 

 which resemble little hooks. 



O. S. Alpine Enchanter's Night-Shade ; found in the North of England. 



