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THE FORMS OF SALVIA VERBENACA L. 
By H. W. Puastey, B.A. 
(PuaTEe 489 B.) 
My attention having been drawn some years ago to Babing- 
ton’s Lizard record for Salvia clandestina, it occurred to me, 
include the Salvia in my list of desiderata; and shortly after- 
wards, when I had arrived at the Lizard, a day’s walk on the east 
side of the peninsula resisted in the finding of a large-flowered 
Sage, which I felt satisfied was the plant that had attracted the 
notice of Babington in 1839. This conclusion was based on the 
descriptions in the British Floras, which, though not in complete 
agreement, sufficiently indicated a plant with more conspicuous 
flowers than appear in the ordinary Wild Cla 
he specimens thus collected were not further examined until 
eee of 1905, when, in view of the remarks on S. clandestina 
. Davey’s Tentative List of Cornish Plants, I ee 
it doairabis, before again recording this poe for the Liz: 
genus as Salvia, to pursue the question f 
the same time the plant recorded as S. te 3 — from Guernsey, 
and . bie British forms of S. Ver. 
benaca L. was published in eneids Plantarum, 25 Se 
a Sabo that date and 1831 I find no fewer than ten other 
specific names for plants more or less closely akin, before ara 
sidering which it. may Hg well to. 2 te features of the 
Common ne familiar li 
his i g , rob Sta a foot or ae pigh and ciee 
f verticillate flowers and a 
slightly ome d, with lax racemes 0 F cceMind saliedl iohae, 
from the bracts, are generally restrict fon 
uppermost being often very broad, seo — peed 
Say re) e stem 
ary arate Eien is tinted, unless in shade, 
varying degree is hairy and 
with dull mot and this colour also suffusing the relatively sarge 
ps which further increases in size after flowering, a pre 
dark tone is imparted to the inflorescence, which obscures <a 
Journan or Borany.—Vor. 46. [Apri, 1908.] H 
