PLATE CCCCXVI. 
SALVIA CHAM ADRIFOLIA. ; 
_ Germander-leaved Sage. | 
GRASS TI. ORDER I. i 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
CoroLLa inequalis. Filamenta tranyerse pe- 
Biossom unequal. Chives affixed transversely 
dicello affixa. 
to a pedicel. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Saxvia, foliis ovalibus rugosis obsolete crena- Saceg, with oval rough obsoletely notched 
tis, verticillis terminalibus nudis quadri- leaves, terminal naked four-flowered 
floris, staminibus corolla brevioribus. | whorls, and hort 
Satvia Chameedrifolia. Donn's Hort. Cantal. p. 7. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The empalement, 
2. The blossom wi the-chiv attached. 
and pointal, with the summit magnified. 
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Our drawing was made from plants in the Hibbertian collection at Clapham last autumn : but we have 
also seen this Sage in other places ; ‘particularly at Cambridge ; 3 and know it to be the Salvia Chame- 
drifolia of the Hortus Cantabrigiensis ed ot ewe do not find that name in any other publication 
within our reach. Yeo a : 
Mr. Donn marks it as a green- -house fecal | and gives Spain as its native country, but with a note : : 
_of interrogation ;. and adds that it flowers i in he and August; and that it was introduced into our Bet 
dens in the year 1798. sat 
We believe that A. B. Lambert, si was the a introducer of it, and that gentleman ‘thinks hes * 
received the seeds of it from Spain. The first time of our seeing it was at J. Vere’s, Esq. in the = 
autumn of 1802, where it was cultivated as a green-house shrub, and by the name of S. citrina, a ii 
name that well expresses the charming odour of its leaves when gently rubbed; which not a little 
resembles the pleasing, well-known scent of Lemon Thyme, 
It is propagated by cuttings in the usual way: its stem and branches are very slender, but sasipesl 
and arise to the height of two or three feet. The flowers are terminal, large, showy, and possess 
a beautiful colour ned the deepest t blue. 
