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or arched. Genera:— S. PKtTNELLA ; 9. Skullcap; 10. Melittis ; 11. Hoeehound ; 

 12. Stachts; 13. Galeopsis; 14. Ballota ; 15. Leonurus, and 16. Lamium. 



5. AJUGOiDEi. Stamens ascending (-t in the British genera). CoroUa apparently 

 1-lipped. Genera: — 17. Geemakdeb, and 18. Bugle. 



Aiaong Labiate genera entirely exotic, the .iiveet Basil {Oci/mwm), Laven- 

 der {Lavandula), Rosemary (Rosmarinus), Balm (Melissa), Savory (Sattt- 

 reia), and Hyssop (Syssopus), are cultivated among our culinary potherbs ; 

 several species of Coleus, including the Patcliouly, in our hothouses ; the 

 shrubby Phlomis and Leonotis, and the herbaceous Monardas and Draco- 

 ce^halmns, and occasionally a few others, in our flower-gardens. 



I. SAGE. SALVIA. 



• Herbs, or, in some exotic species, shrubs, with the flovrers usually in 

 whorls of 6 or more, forming terminal racemes or spikes, the floral leaves all 

 or most of them reduced to mere bracts. Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip 

 entire or with 3 small teeth, the lower one 2-cle"ft. Corolla with the upper 

 lip ei-ect, concave, or arched; the lower spreading, 3-lobed; the middle lobe 

 often notched or divided. Stamens really 2, although easily mistaken for 

 4, for the anthers have a long slender conucctivum, having the appearance 

 of a filament, fastened by the centre to the very short real filaments, and 

 bearhig at one end a perfect anther-cell under the upper Up of the corolla, 

 and at the other end a small cell, almost always empty, and usually much 

 deformed. 



A very large genus, widely spread over the temperate and warmer regions 

 of the globe, although within the tropics the majority of species are moun- 

 tain plants. T)ie structure of the stamens readily distinguishes them from 

 all other Labiates. 



Leaves mostly radical. CoroUa large, near thrice as long as the calyx . 1 . Meadow S. 

 Stem leafy. Corolla small, not twice the length of the calyx .... 2. Wild S. 



Many exotic species are cultivated in our gardens, the common or garden 

 Sage (S. officinalis) from soutliern Europe as a potherb, and several Ame- 

 rican ones for the beauty of their flowers. 



1. Meadoiir Sage. Salvia pratensis, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 153.) 



Stock perennial, with a spreading tuft of shortly stalked radical leaves, 

 ovate, heart-shaped, or oblong, 2 to 6 inches long, coarsely toothed, and 

 very much wrinkled. Stem 1 to 1^ feet high, slightly downy, with only a 

 few narrow leaves near its base. Flowers in a long and handsome, terminal, 

 simple or scarcely branched spike, composed of whorls of about 6 flowers, 

 at regular distances. Upper lip of the calyx minutely 3-toothed. Corolla 

 near thrice as long, of a rich blue, with a long, arched upper lip. 



In dry pastures, roadsides, and waste places, in central and southern 

 Europe to the Caucasus, extending northwards into Sweden and to the 

 French side of the English Channel. Eare in England, and hitherto-almost 

 confined to the neighbourhood of Cobham, in Kent. Fl. swmmer. 



2. V^ild Sag;e. Salvia verbenaca, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot, t. 154.) 

 A coarse, more or less hairy, erect perennial, 1 to 1^ or rarely 2 feet high, 

 and slightly branched. Lower leaves stalked, ovate, coarsely toothed or 

 lobed, and much wrinkled; the upper ones sessile, broader and shorter; the 



