LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.; 309 



Strong-scented perennials, with large ovate leaves, and yellowish flowers on 

 slender pedicels, in loose and panicled terminal racemes. (Named in honor of 

 Peter Cottinson, a well-known patron of science and correspondent of Linnaeus, 

 and who introduced this plant into England.) 



1. C. CanadcnsiS, L. (RICH-WEED. STONE-ROOT.) Nearly smooth 

 (l-3 high); leaves serrate, pointed, petioled (3' -9' long); panicle loose, 

 many-flowered; stamens 2. Rich moist woods, New England to Michigan, 

 Kentucky, and southward. July - Sept. Corolla ' long, exhaling the odor 

 of lemons. 



16. SAL.VIA, L. SAGE. 



Calyx naked in the throat, 2-lipped ; the upper lip 3-toothed or entire, the 

 lower 2-cleft. Corolla deeply 2-lipped, ringent ; the upper lip straight or scythe- 

 shaped, entire or barely notched ; the lower spreading or pendent, 3-lohed, the 

 middle lobe larger. Stamens 2, on short filaments, jointed with the elongated 

 transverse connective, one end of which ascending under the upper lip bears a 

 linear 1-celled (half-) anther, the other usually descending and bearing a"n im- 

 perfect or deformed (half-) anther. Flowers mostly large and showy, in spiked, 

 racemed, or panicled whorls. (Name from salvo, to save, in allusion to the 

 reputed healing qualities of Sage.) 



1. S. lyrikta, L. (LYRE-LEAVED SAGE.) Low (10' -20' high), somewhat 

 hairy ; stein nearly simple and naked; root-leaves obovate, lyre-shaped or sinuate- 

 pinnatifid, sometimes almost entire ; those of the stem mostly a single pair, smaller 

 and narrower ; the floral oblong-linear, not longer than the calyx ; whorls loose 

 and distant, forming an interrupted raceme ; upper lip of the blue-purple pubes- 

 cent corolla short, straight, not vaulted. 1J. Woodlands and meadows, New 

 Jersey to Ohio, Kentucky, and southward. June. 



2. S. lirticifolia, L. (NETTLE-LEAVED SAGE.) Downy with clammy 

 hairs, leafy ; leaves rhombic-ovate, pointed, crenate, rounded or slightly heart- 

 shaped at the base, narrowed into a short petiole, the floral nearly similar; 

 whorls remote, many-flowered ; upper lip of the blue corolla erect, one third the 

 length of the lower ; style bearded. 1J. Woodlands, from Maryland south- 

 ward. Corolla $' long ; the lateral lobes deflexed, the middle notched. 



S. OFFICINALIS, L., is the well-known GARDEN SAGE. I Several scarlet 

 species from Tropical America are cultivated for ornament. 



17. MONARDA, L. HORSE-MINT. 



Calyx tubular, elongated, 15-nerved, nearly equally 5-toothed, usually hairy 

 in the throat. Corolla elongated with a slightly expanded throat, and a strongly 

 2-lipped limb ; the lips linear or oblong, somewhat equal ; the upper erect, en- 

 tire or slightly notched ; the lower spreading, 3-lobed at the apex, the lateral 

 lobes ovate and obtuse, the middle one narrower and slightly notched. Sta- 

 mens 2, elongated, ascending, inserted in the throat of the corolla : anthers lin 

 ear (the divaricate cells confluent at the junction). Odorous erect herbs, with 

 entire or toothed leaves, and pretty large flowers in a few whorled heads, closely 

 surrounded with bracts. (Dedicated to Monardez, an early Spanish botanist.) 



