CLIX. 

 SALVIA OFFICINALIS. 



Common or Garden Sage. 



Class II. Diandria. Order I. Monogynia. 

 Nat. Ord. Labiate. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubular, two-lipped. Corolla labiate, 

 the tube dilated upwards and compressed. Filaments 

 with two divaricating branches, one only bearing a 

 perfect anther. 



Spec. Char. Leaves lanceolate, ovate, crenulate. Whorls 

 few-flowered. Calyx mucronate, longer than the 

 bracteae. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek .... tXiA^axov. 



( Salvia major. Bauh. Pin. 237. Ger. Em. 764. Park, Pared. 

 J t. 475. Dod. Pempt. 288. Fuchs. Hist. 281. 

 < Salvia. Cam. Epit. 475. 



Salvia officinalis. Lin. Sp. PI. 34. Scop. Cam. 11. 31. 



French .... Sauge ; Sauge commun. 



Italian .... Salvia ; Salvia comune. 



Spanish . . Salvia ; Salvia de botica. 



Port Salva ; Salvetta. 



German . . Salbei ; Salvei ; Oartensalbie. 



Dutch .... Salie. 



Danish,... Salvie. 



Swedish . . Salvia. 



Polish .... Szalevia, 



Russ Schalweja. 



Description. — The root is perennial, long, and fibrous. The 

 stem is erect, much branched, shrubby, nearly quadrangular, 

 and about two feet in height ; the younger branches whitish 

 and downy. The leaves are opposite, ovate-lanceolate, or 

 elliptical, thick, wrinkled above, reticulated with prominent 

 nerves beneath, crenulate at the margin, of a deep dull green 

 above, whitish beneath, sometimes tinged with purple ; the pe- 

 tioles are shorter towards the top of the stem. The flowers are 



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