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usually hairy, and whole plant often densely covered with short, 

 hoary hairs. Very polymorphic, and in Switzerland several sub- 

 species and varieties are known. 



Banks, hillsides, and pastures from the plains to 9000 feet. 



Distribution. — Europe, Northern and Central Asia. British. 



Salvia L. 



Flowers usually in whorls of 6 or more, forming terminal racemes 

 or spikes. Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip entire or with 3 small teeth, 

 the lower one 2-cleft. Corolla with upper lip erect, concave or 

 arched, the lower spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe often notched. 

 Stamens really 2, but easily mistaken for 4, on account of the 

 arrangement of the anthers, which have a long, slender convectivum 

 having the appearance of a filament. 



A large genus widely spread over temperate and warm regions of 

 the globe, being mountain plants within the tropics. 



Salvia pratensis L. Meadow Sage. (Plate XXIX.) 



A handsome plant 1-2 feet high with shortly stalked root-leaves, 

 ovate heart-shaped or oblong, 3 to 5 inches long, coarsely toothed 

 and much wrinkled ; stem-leaves smaller, mostly sessile. Flowers 

 in a long, terminal, simple or branched spike, composed of whorls 

 of large rich blue or deep mauve flowers. Upper lip of calyx slightly 

 3-toothed. 



Dry pastures and mountain-sides, common and often in large 

 colonies in sub-alpine districts, but being nevertheless one of the 

 most beautiful of Alpine flowers. June, July, and again sometimes 

 in autumn. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe to the Caucasus, 

 and northwards to Sweden, Northern France, and Kent. 



Salvia glutinosa L. (Plate XXIX.) 



Cymes 2-3 flowered ; flowers dirty yellow, very large, soon fading ; 

 upper lip of calyx entire. Leaves cordate hastate, pubescent, 

 longly petioled, large, crenate-dentate. Stems 2-3 feet high, erect, 

 viscous above. Calyx also covered with viscid, glandular hairs. 



Mountain woods and thickets in the sub-alpine region. June to 

 August. 



Distribution. — ^Alps, Jura, Cevennes, Eastern Pyrenees, Corsica, 

 Europe and Asia from Spain to the Himalaya. 



Salvia verticillata L. Whorled Salvia. 



Flowers small, pale blue or mauve or rarely white, shortly pedi- 

 celled, in dense whorls forming elongated spikes. Calyx violet, 

 hairy, upper lobe trifid. Leaves petioled, broadly ovate-cordate, 

 irregularly crenate-dentate, soft and green. Whole plant usually 

 hairy and disagreeably scented. 



