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Strong-scented perennials, with largo ovate leayes, and yellowish flowers on 

 slender pedicels, in loose and paniclod terminal racemes. (Named in honor of 

 Peter CoUinson, a well-known patron of science and con-espondent of Linnasus, 

 and who introduced this plant into England.) 



1. C Canadensis, L. (Rich-weed. Stone-koot.) Nearly smooth 

 (l°-3° high); leaves serrate, pointed, petioled (3'-9' long); panicle loose, 

 many-flowered; stamens 2. — Rich moist woods. New England to Michigan, 

 Kentucky, and southward. July - Sept. — Corolla |' long, exhaling the odor 

 of lemons. 



16. SAI.TIA, L. Sage. 



Calyx naked in the throat, 2-lipped; the upper lip 3-toothed or entire, the 

 lower 2-cleft. Corolla deeply 2-lipped, ringent ; the upper lip straight or scythe- 

 shaped, entire or barely notched ; the lower spreading or pendent, 3-lobed, the 

 middle lobe larger. Stamens 2, on short filaments, jointed with the elongated 

 transverse connective, one end of which ascending under the upper lip bears u. 

 linear 1-celled (half-) anther, the other usually descending and bearing an im- 

 perfect or deformed (half-) anther. — Elowers mostly large and sho\vy, in spiked, 

 racemed, or panicled whorls. (Name from soZuo, to save, in allusion to the 

 reputed healing qualities of Sage.) 



1. St lyrata, L. (Lyee-leaved Sage.) Low (10' -20' high), somew/«rf 

 hairy ; stem nearly simple and naked ; root-leaves obovate, lyre-shaped or sinuate- 

 pinuatifid, sometimes almost entire ; those of the stem mostly a single pair, smaller 

 and narrower ; the floral oblong-linear, not longer than the calyx ; whorls loose 

 and distant, forming an interrupted raceme ; upper lip of the blue-purple pubes- 

 cent corolla short, straight, not vaulted. % — Woodlands and meadows, New 

 Jersey to Ohio, Kentucky, and southward. June. 



2. S. UTticifolia, L. (Nettle-leaved Sage.) Downy with clammy 

 hairs, leafy ; leaves rhombic-ovate, pointed, crenate, rounded or slightly heart- 

 shaped at the base, narrowed into a, short' petiole, the floral nearly similar ; 

 whorls remote, many-flowered ; upper lip of the blue corolla erect, one third the 

 length of the lower ; style bearded. IJ. — Woodlands, from Maryland south- 

 ward. — Corolla i' long ; the lateral lobes deflexed, the middle notched. 



S. OFFICINALIS, L., is the well-knovra Garden Sage. Several scarlet 

 species from Tropical America are cultivated for ornament. 



ly. MONARDA, L. Hoese-Mint. 



Calyx tubular, elongated, 15-nerved, nearly equally 5-toothed, usually hairy 

 in the. throat. Corolla elongated with a slightly expanded throat, and a strongly 

 2-lipned limb ; the lips linear or oblong, somewhat equal ; the upper erect, en- 

 tire or slightly notched ; the lower spreading, 3-lobcd at the apex, the lateral 

 lobes ovate and obtuse, the middle one narrower and slightly notched. Sta- 

 mens 2, elongated, ascending, inserted in the throat of the corolla : anthers lin- 

 ear (the divaricate cells confluent at the junction). — Odorous erect herbs, with 

 entire or toothed leaves, and pretty large flowers in a few whorled linad?, closely 

 suiTounded with bracts. (Dedicated to Mmmrd<~, an early Spanish botanist.) 



