WOOD-SAGE. 



Teueriuui scorodonia. Nat. Ord., 

 Labiates. 



OOD-SAGE, or as it is often 

 termed, the sage-leaved ger- 

 mander, delights in woody and 

 hilly situations where the soil 

 is dry and stony, and in such 

 places it may very commonly 

 be found throughout Great 

 Britain and Ireland. It may 

 frequently be met with, too, on 

 stony hedge -banks that face 

 towards the sun, and which 

 often from the poorness of the 

 soil supply little else of bo- 

 tanical interest. We are very 

 familiar with the plant, and we 

 may recall two typical situations 

 in which we found it. One of these was near a quarry 

 in the north, the rocky hillside broken into picturesque 

 masses by the blasting operations, and all the undis- 

 turbed portions bearing a rich growth of oak and fir. 

 With the exception of a little fern, the whole ground 

 wherever a plant could fasten was thickly covered with 

 the wood-sage, the greyish-green of the leaves giving a 



