SALVIA VERBENACA. WILD SAGE, or CLARY. 
1 SALVIA Linn. Gen. PL Dianprt1a Monocynia, 
Corolla ineequalis. Filamenta tranfverfe pedicello affixa, 
Rait Syn. Gen. 14. SUFFRUTICES ET HERBA- VERTICILLAT 4. 
SALVIA. Verébenaca foliis ferratis finuatis leviufculis, corollis calyce anguftioribus. Linn. Sy/?. Vegetab. 
ed. 14. f. 70. Sp. Ph p. 35. Lightfoot Scot. v. 1. p.79. Hudf. FL. Angl. ed. 2. p. 10. 
HORMINUM fylveftre Lavendule flore. Bauh. Pin. 239. Park. Th. p. 57. Wald Clary with Spike 
Flowers.  Raz Sym. ed. 9. p. 237. Common Englifh wild Cary. 
HORMINI fylveftris 1111. quinta fpecies. Clu. 2. p. xxxr. 
HORMINUM fylveftre. Ger. Herd. 5. 628. Wild Clarie or Oculus Chrifli ; as.to the defcription, 
the figure doubtful, the radical leaves being too pointed and the flowers too large. 
Ger. emac. p. 771. f. 1. 

RADIX perennis, fufca, craffitie digiti intermedii de- Q ROOT perennial, brown, the thicknefs of the middle- 
fcendens, plurimis fibris capillata. Q _ finger, {triking deep into the earth, and fur- 
| 9 nifhed with numerous fibres. 
CAULES ereétiufculi, bipedales, tetragoni, pilofi, pilis ? STALKS nearly upright, two feet high, four-cornered, 
| horizontalibus, fubvifcidis, ad nodos precipue ¢ hairy (hairs horizontal, fomewhat vifcid) 
purplifh, efpecially at the joints, branched ; 
Branches oppofite. 
LEAVES next the root ftanding on long -footitalks, 
variable in their form, oblong, fometimes 
- rounded at the extremity, fometimes a little 
pointed, not unfrequently heart-fhaped at the 
bafe, but more commonly the leaf runs down 
on each fide of the footftalk, and to a greater | 
length on the one fide than on the other, very 
flightly hirfute, on the margin irregularly 
waved and fawed or toothed, of a paler 
colour on the under fide, veiny and marked 
with {mall glandular concave dots; the ftalk- 
leaves fomewhat remote, the lowermoft of 
them ftanding on fhort foot-ftalks, the upper- 
moftt feflile. 
FLOWERS growing in whorls, fomewhat naked, 
containing about fix flowers. 
FLORAL-LEAVES heart-fhaped, long-pointed,turned 
down, fhorter than the flowers. 
CALYX: a PertanrHium of one leaf, two lip'd, 
purplith, flightly vifcid, and continuing ; the 
upper lip obovate, moft commonly terminated 
by a fhort point, three-rib'd, two of which 
are much fhorter than the middle one; the 
lower lip rib’d, divided nearly half way down, 
fegments ovato-lanceolate, pointed, turned 
up; pod 
COROLLA monopetalous, unequal, violet-coloured, a 
little longer than the calyx; Zu2e above en- 
larged, flattened; Lzz2 gaping; upper Lip 
concave, flattened, bent downwards, emar- 
.ginate; lower Lp broad, trifid, middle feg- 
ment largeft, rounded, deprefled, emarginate, 
purpurafcentes, ramofi ; Rami oppofiti. 
FOLIA radicalia longe petiolata, variabilia, oblonga, 
| apice nunc rotundata, nunc acutiufcula, bafi 
nonnunquam cordata, fzpius vero folium in 
petiolum utrinque decurrit et ad unum latus 
longius extenditur, hirfutula, finuato-ferrata, 
fubtus pallidiora, venofa et punctis glandu- 
lofis excavatis notata; caulina remotiuícula, 
inferiora petiolata, petiolis brevioribus, fu- 
prema feffilia. 
. FLORES verticillati, verticillis nudiufculis, fubfexfloris. 
BRACTE cordate, acuminate, deflexe, floribus 
breviores. 
CALYX: PrzaiíANTHIUM monophyllum, bilabiatum, 
purpurafcens, vifcidulum, perfiftens; labium 
luperius obovatum, mucrone brevi faepius 
terminatum, trinerve, nervis duobus abbre- 
; viatis, labium inferius nervofum ad dimidiam 
fere bifidum ; lacinis ovato-lanceolatis, mu- 
cronatis, furfum curvatis, fig. 1. 
COROLLA monopetala, inaequalis, violacea, calyce 
. paulo longior; Tubus luperne ampliatus, com- 
preffus; Liméus ringens so Labium fuperius 
concavum, compreffum, incurvum, emargi- 
natum;  JLaàzus infernus latum, trifidum, 
lacinia media majori, rotundata, deprefla, 
emarginata, jig. 2. 
STAMINA: FitAMENTA duo, brevia; ANTHER 
E oblonge, nigre, jig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen quadrifidum; Srvrvs fili- 
formis, longus; Sricma bifidum, fe. 4. 
. SEMINA quatuor in fundo calycis, fubrotunda, nigra, 
Jig. 5, 6. 
The Salvia Verbenaca is a common plant, not only in dry paftures and uncultivated places near London, but 
generally throughout the kingdom ; we have frequently remarked that it very often occurs in Church-Yards. 
It flowers during moft. of the fummer, and towards autumn produces abundance of feeds, which fcattering 
on the ground, and readily growing, difpofe this plant foon to become a weed. 
It varies confiderably in fize,: and very much in the form of its leaves; when. bruifed it emits a ftrong and 
fomewhat unpleafant fmell. 
The feed put into water foon becomes invefted with a thick mucilage. 
Formerly it had fome reputation as a medicinal plant; Grerarop tells us, “ That the feede put whole into the 
— * eies clenfeth and purgeth them exceedingly from waterifh humours, rednefle, inflamation, and divers other 
* maladies, or all that happen unto the eies; and takes away the pain and {marting thereof, efpecially being put 
* into the eies one feed at one time and no more.” Ray, who was too credulous in matters of this fort, 
attributes their efficacy to their form and fmoothnefs; we have heard their mode of operating accounted for in 
- fome other way: but furely there is a manifeft. abfurdity in the idea thus entertained of their efficacy, and no 
{mall danger attendant on their ufe: the putting a hard fubftance into a part naturally fo tender as the eye, muft 
at any time be fufficient to excite inflammation, and at all times increafe it; we therefore caution fuch of our 
readers as are fond of ufing the edged tools of medicine, to be on their guard againft applying fo doubtful a 
remedy in difeafes of an organ fo exquifitely formed. 
fig. 2. 
STAMINA: Two Finaments, fhort; ANTHERE 
oblong, black, fg. 9. 
PISTILLUM : Germen quadrifid; Stryze filiform, 
'^ long; Sricma bifid, fe. 4. 
SEEDS four in the bottom of the calyx, of a roundifh 
figure and black colour, jie. 5, 6. 
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