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Descriptive Flora 



Stachys agraria Cham. & Schlecht. Hedge Nettle. 



Woundwort. 



Early-blossoming annuals with slender, square stems and 

 few (usually 2 or 3), small, white or deep lavender flowers in the 

 axil of each of the simple, opposite, ovate leaves. Upper leaves 

 sub-cordate, oval, nearly sessile, obtuse at apex, crenate-mar- 

 gined. Calyx about long, equally 5-lobed, the tips subulate. 

 Corolla tubular (about y± long), 2-lipped, slightly longer than 

 the calyx. Upper lip short, slightly concave. Lower lip longer, 

 broad, flat, 3-lobed, middle lobe largest. Corolla ciliolate and 

 covered with minute glandular hairs without and bearded in the 

 throat. Calyx similarly ciliolate and glandular hairy. Stamens 

 4. February to June. Widespread. 



Salvia roemeriana Scheele. Red Salvia. 



Square stemmed, conspicuously hairy plants with tubular 

 scarlet flowers about 1" long. Plants branched sparingly at the 

 root. Lower leaves simple and rounded or ovate, or pinnately 

 compound. Terminal leaflet large and similar to the blades of 

 the upper leaves. Upper stem leaf -blades ovate to rounded, soft, 

 veiny. Corolla bright carmine-red, tubular, 2-lipped. Lower lip 

 3-lobed, the middle lobe "broadest and notched. Upper lip shorter, 

 concave and notched. Stamens 2, with filaments that are appar- 

 ently 2-forked, one fork bearing an anther, the other a rudi- 

 mentary anther or none. Pistil long, red, threadlike, extending 

 beyond the corolla. March, April and June. Ravines and rich 

 ledges of limestone bluffs. 



Salvia coccinea L. Red Salvia. Scarlet Sage. 



' ' Salvia escarlata. 9 9 



Flowers scarlet, similar to the above species. Plants much 

 taller (1 to 3'). Leaves are never pinnately compound or seg- 

 mented, but simple with triangular or ovate blades and blunt 

 saw-toothed or scalloped margins. April to July. Not as com- 

 mon as Salvia roemeriana. There are about 500 species in this 

 genus, about 50 of which are in cultivation in this country. 



