THE FORMS OF SALVIA VERBENACA 105 
Since the publication of a Labiées des Alpes Maritimes, 
another fresh arrangement has appeared in the recent Flore de 
France (iii. 102) by Abbé Coste, who makes no allusion to the 
polymorphic flowers beyond admitting some variation in the size 
of the corolla, and distinguishes three species? clandestina L., 
S. Verbenaca L., and S. horminoides Pour 
The main Garntha of this. latest Seances are as follows :— 
sis a pine L. (= S. multifida Sibth.). Plante de 
8-3 ante . . . feuilles Siipecese incisées ou 
Deematifiads: Gordlies de 10-15 mm , d'un bleu pale avec le lobe 
médian inférieur blanchatre, 4 lavre ert comprimée et 
courbée en faux. 
S. Verpenaca L. Plante de 10-50 cm., assez gréle 
odorante . . . feuilles oblongues, larges de 2-3 cm. orénelées ou 
incisées-lobées . . . corolle de 10-15 mm., d’un bleu 
& lévres assez écartées, la supérieure un peu arquée di sommet, 
non comprim 
. HORMINOIDES Pourr. non Gren. & Godr. Plante de 30-80 ie 
robuste ... peu odorante ... feuilles ovales-oblongues, larges de 
3-6 cm., pennatilobées ... corolle de 5-10 cm., d’un bleu violet, 
4 lavres Beihai presque bes i. supérieure presque 
dro. cite, n n comprimée, style inclus 
It be seen race these numerous descriptions that a large 
Grater of plants exists more or less closely allied to S. Verbe- 
naca, with which most of them, when described as species, were 
directly or erratic! compared. The characters whereby they 
were differentiated were taken commonly from the foliage and the 
form and colour of the corolla, although other features, such as 
bairlothivg¢ or the calyx of any of these forms, with the excep- 
tion of S. multifida Sibth. & Sm., the description of which it has 
already been suggested fies been based on a misconception. 
his relative uniformity therefore, in contrast to the care 
variableness of the leaf-cutting and corolla, would seem to indica 
ee the types of hair-clothing and of calyx must be relied on as 
e best characteristics of the group. 
In all of these plants, while the ng el — 
except rarely for a very few scattered hairs on 
cauline leaves. the sites more or less abundantly sat an a 
