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a cultivated specimen, and it may be that cultivation reduces the 
rugose character of the leaves.* At any rate I shou | have hesi- 
tated to identify rubellum with S. Verbenaca var. multifida Visiani 
as does Briquet (Labiées des Alpes Maritimes, p. 514). Therefore I 
adhere to the use of S. Verbenaca L. for our British pant, having 
Marquandii to a restricted S. Verbe enthamian 
view of species doubtless it might be placed as a variety under that 
rather than under either of the allied species. ut if species, say 
; . Var. 
oblongifolia is based. This Mr. Pu sley describes as having 
‘leaves almost simply crenate-serrate, less deeply and irregularly 
divided than in the type.” Bentham (Labiat. p. 240), it is true 
says “B oblongifolia foliis oblongis crenatis vix incisis. S. 0 
longata Vahl! Knum. i. 256,” but adds, “in hortis culta,”’ and 
“est varietas hortensis, foliis angustioribus minus incisis,’”’ thus 
changing Vahl’s description of the leaves, which is “ profunde 
serrata vix venosa”’ (see Vahl, Enumeratio, i. 256). Lamarck, 
(Lllustr. i. 70), whose betonicefolia is synonymous with Vahl’s 
ua d 
Bentham’s variety oblongifolia which will match it. Before 
arqua 
lance, I thought, and still consider, the flower is not identical. 
Briquet (Labiées, p. 514) refers this plate to S. Verbenaca var. clan- 
destuna. If, as I suggest, S. Verbenaca L,. be kept as the aggre- 
gate species, I soe i the arrangement as in my List, 
aggregate sense. It agrees in its leaf-texture with the description 
in Sp. Pl. 25, “foliis serratis sinuatis leviusculis, corollis calyce 
angustioribus,” but, as I have said, « leviusculis” does not apply 
the o ry Britis gives as a synonym “Salvia 
foliis pinnatim incisis glabris Hort. Chiff. 12”; the diagnosis is in 
Hort. Cliff. followed by the note: “In pratis foliis gaudet magis 
integris & corolla vix calyce majore crulea; in cultis vero foliis 
a totaliter dissectis, cum corollis paulo majoribus pallidi- 
oribus. 
G. Cuariper Druce. 
_, (The cultivated specimen was raised in 1881 from seeds taken from the 
wild plant in 1879, so that cultivation can hardly have greatly affected it.— 
Ep. Journ. Bor. } 
