THE FORMS OF SALVIA VERBENACA 103 
has reddish corollas, with connivent lips scarcely exceeding the 
calyx. The genus peerage does not appear to have been 
retained by recent autho 
In Parlatore’s Flora. Jéhiana, 256 (1883) the whole of these 
forms are combined under a single species, S. Verbenaca L. Tw 
= however, are recognized— 
vulgaris Blatior, foliis minus divisis, coroll4 minore pur- 
pureo-violace 
B. tale Humilior, foliis majus divisis, corolla majore 
ilacin 
and among the seen a quoted for the latter are S. clandestina 
L. ?, S. multifida Sibth. & Sm., and S. controversa Ten 
The next author is deal with this aca seems to > be Mon 
iquet, of Geneva, from whom we get, in 1891, in Les 
Labiées des Alpes Maritimes, a more e sionals account than any 
that had yet been published. In this treatise the writer draws 
particular attention to the polymorphism of the corolla, a feature 
which, as already seen, had been detected by Hoffmansegg & Link, 
and alluded to, under 8. clandestina, in Bentham’s Labiate and 
De Candolle’s Prodromus. As M. Briquet’s conclusions on this 
pen oo seem to be of importance, I have freely translated them 7m 
tenso 
He says, under Salvia (p. 490): ‘Several species produce 
female flowers with small Soealia 8 style much exserted, and stamens 
much reduced. In others again there exist very small flowers, 
more or less perfectly cleistogamous, the corolla being almost 
hy : t 
meeting of the anthers and the stigmatic lobes. Every inter- 
mediate stage between t these different states may be found in one 
and the same s 
nd, again, under S. dghermnis (pp. 510, sq.), he continues :— 
“This species contains of varieties difficult to classify 
satisfactorily owing to eh “pokrinepbicks of the corolla. 
in some places plants with large, proterandrous flowers are alone 
met with, in others nothing can be found but the same form with 
flowers more or less cleistogamous; and often the different states 
grow intermingled. 
“Ag in any one yariety every form of corolla may occur, 
os the large, proterandrous flower to the small, ee 
ate. 
tube cylindric cal for 3-4 mm., then somewhat contracted below 
and ne blagwes: for to a spacious throat 5 mm. ae upper lip 8-9 mm 
erect, ‘and the middle one first shortly contracted an 
ing i Anther-lobe 2 mm. and connective 
preceding ; 
5mm. 3. Flowers more or 
