SdlviaJ^ 



LXIII. LABIATiE 



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wrinkled, very deeply sinuate-serrate, almost pinnatifid. Floivers 

 small, sessile, in dense ivhorh at the base of the superior leaves, 

 whitish with purple dots, hairy within. 



2. Salvia Linn> Sage or Clary. 



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CaL 2-lippcd, tubular. Cor, labiate ; the tuhe dilated up- 

 wards and compressed. Stam. 2. Filaments with 2 divaricat- 

 ing branches, 1 only bearing a perfect, single cell of an anther. 

 — Named from salvo to save^ or heal^ in allusion to its balmy 

 or healing qualities. 



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(Meado 



ovate-cordate at the base irregularly crenate stalked, those of 

 the stem few sessile, uppermost lanceolate acuminate, bracteas 

 cordate- ovate acuminate shorter than the calyx, corolla thrice 

 as long as the calyx glandular and viscid at the summit E. B. 

 t. 153. 



Dry meadows and about hedges, England, rare : near Cobham in 

 Kent. ^. 6, 7. — Stem varying from 6 inches to 2 feet high. 



S. Verbendca L. (vnld English C., or >S'.) ; leaves broadly 

 ovate or oblong crenate, lower ones long-stalked, upper ones 

 bi'oauer sessile semiamplexicaul, bracteas cordate-ovate acu- 

 minate about as lonfy as the calvx, tube of the corolla much 

 narrower and scai'cely longer than the calyx. _B. B. t. 154. 



Dry pastures and banks, especially in a chalky or gravelly soil ; not 

 uncommon in England, but in Scotland only found about Edinburgh. 

 li-. 5S. — Stmis one to two feet high. Lower leaves petiolate, 

 ovate, scarcely cordate at the bas'e ; upper ones sessile and acute, less 

 lobed, hut more serrate ; all wrinkled with veins, Bracteas 2 under 

 each whorl of flowers, cordate, acute, entire, ciliated, Cal, hairy, 

 segments mucronate. Cor, small in proportion to the calyXj purple. 

 Upper lip concave compressed, 



3. S, clandestina L. {small-flowered S,) ; leaves ovate-oblong 

 mcise-toothed or pinnatifid, lower ones stalked, upper oblong 

 acute sessile scarcely cordate or amplexicaul, bracteas cordate- 

 ovate acuminate slightly shorter than the calyx, tube of the 



corolla longer than the calyx. S. obtusata Link. S, praicox 

 Savi, 



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Dry gravelly banks, rare. Lizard Point, Cornwall. Jersey. IL. 

 7. — This is a very variable plant, but usually with deep]y toothed or 

 pinnatifid leaves, and appears to be the southern form or represent- 

 ative of S. Ferhenacay to which also several other supposed species 

 may be conveniently referred. 



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