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SAL'VIA PA’TENS., 
wien ps SAGE. 
EXOGENS, DICOTYLEDONE &. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, LEGUMINOSAE, 
COROLLIFLORE, {ee — DIANDRIA, 
oF MONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE, = Pei a | OF LINNEUS, 
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GENUS. 
tridentato inferiore bifido. Cororza bilabiata, labio superiore erectu subinte- 
gro concavo, infe eriore pemsiente trilobo, Sramrma fertilia duo antica. ANTHE- 
, ant ice ascen 
dens, loculum fertilem adnatum ferens, postice deflexum vel ascendens loculum 
alterum minorem, vel difformem cassam ferens vel nudum. Sryxus apice brevi- 
ter bifidus, lobis sepius inequalibus. CaRPELLA sre aa cae levia. 
Hers fruticesve habitu variabiles. Fiorcm verticillastri in racemis termin- 
alibus dispositi. 
SPECIES. Sarvra parens. Cavani“ies. Cavre herbaceo erecto piloso, 
foliis petiolatis ovato-deltoideis — rhscip — vel supremis rotundatis 
utrinque hispidis, floralibus lanceolato 
calycibus campanulatis villosis, labio superiore brevissime tricuspidato, inferi- 
oris laciniis acuminatis, corolla ampla, fauce hiante,labio superiore erecto-fal- 
cato integro, inferiore dependente lobis lateralibus oblongis reflexis, intermedio 
latissimo emarginato. 
CHARACTER OF THE Genus, Satvia. Catyx two-lipped, the upper 
lip entire or minutely 3-toothed, the lower one two-cleft. CoroLia 
two-lipped, the upper lip erect, usually entire, more or less concave ; the 
lower one spreading, three-lobed. Stamens two only, fertile, inserted 
in the lower side of the tube of the corolla. ANTHERS with a linear 
connectivum, tranversely fixed on the filament, the outer end ascend- 
ing with a single adnate fertile cell, the inner end descending or rarely 
ascending, bearing either a smaller, or a deformed empty cell, or with- 
out any. Styxe shortly cleft at the top, the lobes usually unequal. 
CarPE.s egg-shaped, more or less triangular, dry, sm 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, SaLvia PATENS. Perennial, 
growing to the height of two or three feet, or rather more. STEM 
erect, branching, hairy. Leaves petiolate, large, ovate, or deltoid, 
broadly hastate or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, or the upper 
ones rounded, green and hairy. on both sides. FLowers disposed in 
terminal racemes, usually branching into three at the base; along this 
raceme they are placed in opposite pairs, each one at the axilla of a 
small, linear lanceolate, floral leaf or bract. FirowEr-STALKs short, 
hairy. Catyx half to three quarters of an inch long, hairy, green, 
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