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148. Sclarea. 32. LABIATE. 
PL ex. cor * 
Sclarea pratensis. Meadow clary . 
Leaves heartshape, oblong, crenate ; uppermost pairs of 
leaves embracing the stem ; whirls rather naked ; hractece 
pointed, coloured, longer than the calyx ; teeth of the upper 
lip of the calyx connivent ; galea glutinous. 
Sclarea pratensis foliis serratis, flore caeruleo, Dillen in Raii Syn. 237, L 
Horminutn sylvestre Fuchsii, Ger. em. 769,3. 
Horminum sylvestre vulgare, Park. 55. 
Horminum pratense, Rivinus Mon. 36. 
Salvia pratensis, Lin. S. P . 35. 
Sclarea pratensis, Moetich Meth. 376. 
Clear-eye . 
Dry fields and hedges on chalk ; perennial ; July. 
Leaves wrinkled; lower leaves petioled; whirls 6-flowered; 
calyx hirsute ; hairs with heads, glandular ; corolla violet- 
colour, 4 times as long as the calyx.-— in water acquire 
a thick mucilage round them, used to put into the eyes to 
get out substances which have flown into them. 
XXXI. 149. HORMINUM. ^Hippocrates. Oculus-Christu 
Calyx bellshape ; mouth naked, 2-lipped ; upper lip 
3-toothed; lower lip 2-cut; galea arched, compressed, 
nicked ; lower lip 3-lobed ; side lobes slender ; middle lobe 
rounded ; stamens 2 ; filaments with a traverse pedicell at 
the bottom. — Flowers axillary, in whirls, spiked. 
Horminum sylvestre . Wild Oculus-Christi. 
Leaves heartshape, oblong, sinuately and doubly cre- 
nated, wrinkled ; teeth on the upper lip of the calyx con- 
nivent ; corolla much slenderer and a little longer than the 
calyx. 
Horminum sylvestre lavendulas flore, Raii Syn. 237, 1 ; Park. 57. 
Horminum sylvestre, Ger. em. 771, 1. 
Salvia Verbenaca, Lin. S. P.35. 
Horminum coloratura, Moench Meth. 376. 
Wild clary. 
Fields and pastures on chalk ; peren. ; June to October. 
Stem ascending ; leaves rather bald ; Iractece longer than 
the calyx ; calyx hirsute ; hairs with heads, glandular ; 
teeth inflected ; corolla blue, not twice as long as the 
calyx ; tube constricted ; seeds round, black, smooth. — 
Seeds in water acquire a mucilaginous envelope, so that 
they are used, like those of meadow clary, to extract things 
from the eyes. 
