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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



yellow, with five deep purple spots at the throat, but these 

 additions to the beauty of the flowers do not always appear. 

 It is a native of Caucasus and Armenia. 



LAMIACEJE. 



Exogens, with irregular, un symmetrical flowers. Calyx tubu- 

 lar, inferior, lasting, regularly five or ten-toothed. Corolla rao- 

 nopetalous, growing below the ovary, the upper undivided or two- 

 cleft, overlapping the lower, which is larger, and three-lobed. 

 Stamens four, two long and two short, inserted upon the corolla. 

 Leaves divided or not, covered with receptacles of aromatic oil. 

 - — Herbaceous plants or undershrubs ; natives of temperate re- 

 gions ; properties fragrant and aromatic. 



SALYIA. 



Gen. Char. (Diandria Monogynia.) Corolla gaping, irregular, 

 and monopetalous ; filaments stalked; seeds naked. 



The name arises from salvare, to save, from the supposed 

 healing qualities. The aromatic plants of this genus are 

 many of them hardy ; those that are ornamental in the gar- 

 den require the frame or greenhouse in the winter, as the 

 beautiful deep blue and red flowering species, S. splendens 

 and patens. Some must be confined to the greenhouse en- 



