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the head and nerves; and for that purpofe no 
way is better than the common one, of taking it 
in tea. In this manner, drank in large quanti- 
ties, it is alfo diaphoretick ; and good in feverith 
diforders. 
The Italians eat it as a prefervative of health, 
and fay a man need not die that has Jage in his 
garden. Our people, from the fame principle, 
eat fage on bread and butter ; and there is no bet- 
ter way of taking it. Some prefer the Sage of 
virtue to the common kind; but their qualities 
are nearly the fame; and this is the more pleafant. 
2. Sage of Virtue. 
Salvia minor. 
The root is long, thick, woody, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The firft leaves are placed on flender foot- 
ftalks ; and they are oblong, moderately broad, 
of agreyifh green colour, and rough furface ; 
and at the bafe of each there ufually and natu- 
rally grow two fmall ones, called ears; but thefe 
are fometimes wanting. 
The ftalks are numerous, fquare, flender, 
branched, and a foot or more in height. 
The Jeaves on them refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are {maller. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
long, loofe {pikes ; and they are of a fine pale 
blue. 
The feeds are moderately large, 
It is a native of Spain. 
C.Bauhine calls it Salvia minor aurita et non 
aurita. Others only Salvia minor, Our gar- 
deners, Sage of virtue. 
’ Many prefer it to the common fage for the fame 
purpofes, 
3. Candy-Sage. 
Salvia anguftifolia Cretica. 
The root is woody, and hung with numerous 
fibres. ‘ ; 
The ftem is woody and round; but the young 
branches are fquare. 
The leaves are oblong, narrow, and of a pale 
green: fometimes they are a little dented at the 
edges, at others not at all, and fome have a double 
large indenting near the bafe, in refemblance of 
the ears of the other /age. 
The flowers ftand in loofe fpikes at the tops of 
the branches ; and are of a faint whitith purple. 
The cups are obtufe, and the feeds that follow 
are large. 
Cos ON eUiea8 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Salvia baccifera. Others, 
Salvia pomifera. And our gardeners, Apple-fage, 
or Berry-bearing fage. 
All that is natural to the plant we have here 
defcribed ; but it remains to explain the phrafe 
apple- bearing fage. 
There is a fly in the Greek iflands, whofe 
young is hatched upon this plant, in excrefcences 
raifed by the puncture of its parent. Every one 
knows the galls produced on our oak; and few 
areignorant of theirorigin. A fly wounds the young 
fhoot of the tree; and the part fwells from the 
poifonous juice left by her in the wound, and 
rifes into this round fubftance, called a gall. So 
in Crete a fly wounds the Jege, a gall is formed, 
and from its fhape it is called an apple. They 
err who fuppofe it the fruit of the plant, for it has 
no fruit but the four feeds in each cup. 
4. Ethiopian Sage. 
Salvia lanuginofa Aithiopica, 
The root is long, thick, and hung about with 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and nearly as broad 
as they are long, of a whitith colour ; and fo co- 
vered with a woolly matter, that they lofe the 
outline of their fhape. ; 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, and branched: 
it is thick fet with leaves, and is covered with the 
fame white woolly matter. 
The leaves on the ftalk refemble thofe from the 
root, and are as thickly covered with the woolly 
matter. 
The flowers rife from the bofoms of the upper 
leaves; and are of a {nowy whitenefs ; but the 
buttons on the tops of their threads are yellow. 
The feeds are four after every flower; and they 
lie naked in the cup. 
It is a native of Greece, Africa, and fome of 
the hotteft parts of Europe. 
C. Bauhine calls it Aithiopis foliis finuofis. 
Others, Sclarea thiopica; and fome, ANthiopian 
mullein. 
It is diftinly and Properly a fpecies of /age. 
The leaves are fometimes altogether undivided, 
fometimes cut in at the edges, and this in a 
flighter or deeper manner; and from hence au- 
thors have named one or two imaginary fpecies. 
They are only accidental varieties of the {ame 
plant. 
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Apat flower is Iabiated, and is formed of a fingle petal. 
The tubular part is cylindrick, and 
longer than the cup.. The upper lip is larger than the under, and is {plit into two parts: the 
under lip is divided into three rounded fegments of equal fize. 
a fingle piece ; and is obfcurely dented at the edge, 
The cup is fhort: it is formed of 
The feeds are of an oval fhape, and four follow 
every flower; and the flowers ftand in naked fingle {pikes, 
Linneus places this among the didynamia gy 
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mnofpermia ; the threads in the flower being two longer 
and. 
