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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



104556 to 104604— Continued. 



104580. Ranunculus gramineus L. Ra- 

 nunculaceae. Grassy buttercup. 



A smooth herbaceous perennial with 

 rosettes of linear to lanceolate leaves ar>d 

 bright-yellow flowers on stalks 6 to 12 

 inches higb. It is native to Europe. 



For previous introduction see 101954. 



104581 to 104592. Salvia spp. Mentha- 

 ceae. Sage. 



104581. Salvia aegyptica L. 



A low shrub, with numerous stiff 

 branches and few linear-oblong, bullate- 

 crenate leaves about one-half inch long. 

 The very small whitish flowers are in 

 small whorls. Native to Egypt. 



104582. Salvia aethiopis L. 



A perennial a foot or less high, with 

 erect white-woolly stems, cordate-clasp- 

 ing, incised-dentate leaves, and white 

 or slightly reddish flowers. 



104583. Salvia albo-caerulea Linden. 



A shrubby salvia, about 3 feet high, 

 with long-acuminate leaves 4 to o 

 inches long and simple racemes of 

 creamy-white and blue flowers. It is 

 native to the pine forests of Michoacan, 

 Mexico. 



104584. Salvia algeriensis Desf. 



An erect hairy annual 2 to 3 feet 

 high, with the lower leaves ovate- 

 oblong, crenate, 1 to 2 inches wide, and 

 6 inches long. The sky-blue flowers 

 are in small whorls. Native to Algeria. 



104585. Salvia argentea L. 



An erect white-woolly biennial 2 to 4 

 feet high, with broadly ovate, sinuate- 

 lobate leaves 4 to 8 inches long and, 

 showy rose-white, purplish, or yellow- 

 ish flowers. Native to the Mediter- 

 ranean region. 



104586. Salvia cleistogama De Bary. 



An erect perennial 1 to 2 feet high, 

 covered with long hairs, with ovate- 

 oblong irregularly pinnatifid leaves 

 usually about 2 inches long and blue 

 flowers half an inch long in distant 

 whorls. Native to southern Africa. 



104587. Salvia glutinosa L. 



A perennial sage about 3 feet tall, 

 glutinous hairy throughout, with ovate- 

 oblong, dentate leaves up to 7 inches 

 long and pale-yellow flowers an inch 

 long in lax whorls. Native to Europe 

 and Asia. 



104588. Salvia hispanica L. 



A perennial herb with ovate serrate 

 leaves and quadrangular spikes of blue 

 flowers. The mucilaginous seeds are 

 used in making the Mexican drink 

 called "chia." 



104589. Salvia jurisici Kosanin. 



A perennial sage, with a long, much- 

 branched rootstock and erect stems 

 about 2 feet high. The lower leaves 

 are long-stalked, ovate-oblong, crenate 

 or dentate, and rugose, while the upper 

 leaves are pinnatisect and short- 

 stalked. The small blue-violet flowers 

 are in small whorls. Native to south- 

 ern Yugoslavia. 



104556 to 104604— Continued. 



104590. Salvia lyrata L. 



A hardy perennial with erect stems 

 8 to 24 inches high. The radical leaves 

 are lyrate, erose-dentate, and the stem 

 leaves are oblong lanceolate. The 

 bluish-purple flowers are in lax whorls. 

 Native to the western United States. 



104591. Salvia coccinea pseudococ- 

 cinea (Jacq.) A. Gray. 



A perennial sage with flowers the 

 same shade of intense red as that of 

 the cardinal flower (Lobelia cardi- 

 nalis) . The plants have from two to 

 five stems and vary in height from 15 

 to 30 inches. Found in little pockets 

 of limestone soil in dry sunny places 

 in Mexico and Central America. 



For previous introduction see 64668. 



104592. Salvia tiliaefolia Vahl. 



A perennial sage, said to be native to 

 Mexico, with cordate, rugose, crenate- 

 serrate leaves 2 inches or more long 

 and sky-blue flowers nearly 1 inch long. 



104593 to 104598. Solanum spp. Solana- 

 ceae. 



104593. Solanum auriculatum Ait. 



A shrubby perennial. 4 feet high, 

 with large hairy, mulleinlike leaves 6 

 to 7 inches long and small violet flow- 

 ers in dense corymbs. Native to Mada- 

 gascar. 



104594. Solanum caldasii Humb. and 

 Bonpl. 



A white hairy perennial with un- 

 equally pinnatisect leaves 4 inches long 

 and small flowers, one-half inch across, 

 in long-stalked racemes. Native to 

 Ecuador. This species is related to the 

 potato (Solanum tuberosum). 



104595. Solanum cornutum Lam. 



A spiny annual 1 to 4 feet high, with 

 ovate pinnately lobed leaves and yellow 

 flowers an inch across, in small termi- 

 nal clusters. Native to Mexico. 



104596. Solanum dulcamara L. 



Bitter nightshade. 



An ornamental vine with red berries. 

 For previous introduction see 95573. 



104597. Solanum pseudocapsicum L. 



Jerusalem-cherry. 



104598. Solanum triflorum Nutt. 



Nightshade. 



A low-growing annual, with oblong 

 seven- to nine-lobed leaves, small white 

 flowers, and greenish fruits. Native to 

 the western United States. 



104599 to 104604. Viola spp. Viola ceae. 



Violet. 



104599. Viola delphinifolia Nutt. 



A perennial violet with a short ver- 

 tical rootstock and palmately multifid 

 leaves up to 3 inches wide. The showy 

 violet flowers are on scapes exceeding 

 the leaves. Native to the prairie region 

 of the central United States. 



104600. Viola hirta L. 



A hardy perennial violet, closely re- 

 lated to Viola odoruta, from which it 

 differs in being more hairy and in bav- 

 in? narrower leaves and scentless dull- 

 bluish flowers. The stems are about 6 



