Salvia.] labiat-e. 375 



the sterile stamens minute, aehenes about as long as the calyx- 

 tube."— 5r. Fl. p. 306. Sm. E. Fl. i. p. 34. E. B. xvi. t. 1105. 

 Benth. Lab. p. 186. 



In and on the margins of ponds, ditches, rivers and hrooks, in wet meadows, 

 pastures and woods ; frequent. FL June — September. Fr. September ? Octo- 

 ber. 2^. 



E. Med. — About Ryde, frequent, as at Ninham-, by the pond and elsewhere. 

 Ditches on Sandown level. By the stream at Bridge near Godshill, and in 

 various places on the moors between Godshill and Burtbridge, 1843. About the 

 -margins of what was formerly a pool, called Swan pond, in a wood near Whilefield 

 farm, 1844. Ditches on the moors near Eoottey. Pond near Hardingshoot 

 farm, abundantly. 



W. Med. — In the boggy part of Beckett's copse, Freshwater, 1845. West 

 bank of the Yar, just below Freshwater mill. Very common about Kingston. 

 Gurnet bay. 



Root creeping, fibrous. Stem erect, 3 or 3 feet high, solid, downy, quadrangu- 

 lar, with a deep furrow on each face, and bearing many opposite, erect, leafy 

 branches. Leave.i opposite, nearly sessile, ovato-lanceolate, very acute, deeply and 

 sharply inciso-serrate in the upper, almost pinnatifid in the lower half of the supe- 

 rior leaves, those nearest the root quite so towards the base, dull green, rather soft 

 and downy, with indexed edges. Flowers minute, sessile, in small, dense, rather 

 oblong whorls, embracing the stem at each pair of leaves, and subtended by nu- 

 merous linear bracts. Calyx very short, hairy, its teeth subulate, nearly equal. 

 Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, shaggy, especially within, white, the lower 

 lip with a few purple spots; upper lip broader and shorter, its margin erect with 

 a central notch, the lateral lobes entire, spreading. Stamens 2, sometimes, it is 

 said, 4, exserted, very distant, placed about halfway up the tube ; anthers lunate, 

 their lobes united at the summit only ; ihe filaments inserted beneath the centre of 

 junction : this union of the cells appears to be effected by an expansion of the 

 filament into a broad membranous back (connectivum), to which the cells are 

 attached, and as it were incorporated with it. Style but little exserted ; stigma 

 bifid. Seeds 4, 3-cornered, their outer face concave, the two inner flat, their sum- 

 mits plane or truncate, covered with pellucid resinous granules, and edged with 

 a raised thickened border: the seeds have a moist feel, and adhere to any object 

 they come in contact with, from the oily or resinous matter which covers them, 

 and imparts a faint but not very pleasant aroma. 



Tribe II. Monarde^, Benth. 



" Corolla 2-lipped. Stamens 2, fertile, parallel under the lip of 

 the corolla." — Bab. Man. 



III. Salvia, Linn. Sage or Clary. 



" Calyx 2-lipped, tubular. Corolla labiate ; the tube dilated 

 upwards and compressed. Stamens 2. Filaments with 2 divari- 

 cating branches, 1 only having a perfect single cell of an anther." 

 —Br. Fl. 



tl?l. S. pratensis, 1j. Meadow Clary. Lower leaves mostly 

 subcordato-oblong irregularly serrato-crenate stalked, upper stem- 

 leaves semiamplexicaul, bracteas small shorter than the calyx, 

 coroUa twice as long as the calyx viscid and glandular on its 

 much arched upper lip. Sm. E. Fl. i. p. 34. Br. Fl. p. 307. 



