THE FORMS OF SALVIA VERBENACA 99 
In 1788 another name for . op of this ae S. horminoides 
was published by Pourret (Mém. Acad. Toul. iii. 327). This was 
diagnosed, ‘‘ Caulescens, foliis dita: seiedastid: crenatis; calyci- 
bus coloratis, corollee labiis approximatis, longitudine equalibus, 
pistillo incluso,” and was said to be intermediate between S. Ver- 
ing in form from that s own i 1: anil ier’s figures. specimen 
labelled by Polit showing ‘fairly broad leaves was seen by 
M. Briquet in Allioni’s herbarium 
Ten years later Savi ate Pisana, 22) described as S. pra- 
tensis minor a fresh form from Pisa resembling S. pratensis, — 
differing in size, in the radical leaves, and in the corolla. In Sav 
Bot. Etrusc. i. 21 (1806) this is identified with S. clandestina i 
but in Loiseleur’s Notice, 6 (1810) it is redescribed as a distinct 
species, under the name’of S. precox Savi, Fl. Pis., and as such 
has been et by subsequent authors. It is said not to exceed 
five inches in height, with deeply toothed and sinuate leaves and 
light blue — characters which recall S. clandestina and Bar- 
gars s a 
er Galea of this group is S. verbenacoides — 
Fi. aeact . 17 (1804). Its principal Montane are “.. . foliis co 
dato- -oblongis, crenatis, subsinuatis aut apres sept . 
media inter S. clandestinam et Verbenacam arietas?” 
and it is divided into the apr four viii whieh: Litaies 
are not nominally distinguish 
Var. a. Corolle labiis romotis. | 
B. Corolla eidem, spica 
y: Senter labiis sapped: 
rolla 
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é. 
will be Bikiect that this i is = first species in which varia- 
betonicwfolia . . . a 
foliis non sinuatis, enti profunde serrati d mentions 
that the flowers are of small size, with a ties corolla as in S. 
erbenaca. 
The eo Greca of Sibthorp and Smith, i. 16 (1806) 
the eye e to be considered, _ S. multifida. This is de- 
scribed as “ ‘S. ‘foliis cordatis multifidis incisis sacra caule folioso 
lvestre,” &c., ic. 220 
furnishes 
destina L., S. precox Savi, a I by ier, 
from this wad “alee citation of Barrelier, S. muléifida has 0% 
generally accepted as identical with them by — 
