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III. The Firft, or Wood Sige, Wild Sage, or 
Garlick Sage. Its Root is long and Stringy, tnith 
many Fibres adjoining , abiding many years. It 
riles up with Square Hoary Stalks , two feet 
high at leaft , having two Leaves Jet at every 
Joint therein , which are fomething like unto Sage 
Leaves , but j mailer, f of ter , whiter , and rounder , 
a 7/7//V dented about the edges , and f melding fome- 
inhat flrongly . yl/ //;<? /o/v, 0/ //?<? Stallcs and 
Branches grow flowers on a /lender long fpike , 
turning them f elves. all one %Toay when they blow , 
md are of a Pale or Whitijh Color , J mailer than 
Sage , but hooded , and gaping like to them. The 
Seed is blackijh and round t four ufually Jet toge- 
ther in a husk. 
IV. Gerard deferibes it thus. Its Root , is full 
of Strings, from whence fpring up.Stalks 4 fquare, 
fomewhat hairy, upon which are fet Leaves like 
thofe cf Sage , but Shorter, broader , and J of ter. 
The flowers grow up all upon{ one fide of the Stalk , 
open and forked like thofe of Dead Kettle , but 
lejjer, cf a Pale White Color: after which comes 
the Seed , four together in one husk. It is a 
plant which lives but a year , and fmells of Gar- 
lick when it is bruifed , being thought to be a kind 
of Car lick Germander , as it its Garlick fmell 
teftifles. 
V. The Second, or Yellow Wild Sage with Broad 
Leaves, called by fame Frqpch Sage. Its Root is 
Woody with divers Strings and Fibres adjoining 
to it. It has fever al fquare Woody hoary Stalks , 
on which grow at feveral fpaces , rugged, hoary 
Sage Wild Fellow Broad heav'd. 
Sage Wood or Garlick. 
broad , and almoft round pointed leaves , many fet 
together , very like unto the great Sage, but larger. 
The Flowers* grow like wife, in Rundles or Spaces 
towards the Tops of the Stalks , very like alfo unto 
the Flower of Sage , or Archangel , but of a Tellow 
color. The Seed is greater than of any Sage , fome- 
what brownifh , and round like the next or third 
kind following. The whole Plant fmells fomewhat 
flrong and heady. 
VI. Gerard deferibes this fecond kind thus. Its 
Root is thick, tough and of a Woody fubftance, as 
is all the reft of the Plant. It grozvs up like a 
fmall Woody Shrub , having many Woody Branches , 
of a Woolly and Hoary color , Jo ft and downy : On 
which are placed thick hoary Leaves , of a flrong 
Pontick Savor , in fhape like to the Leaves of 
Sage , whereupon the Vulgar People call it French 
Sage. Towards the Tops of the Branches are pla- 
ced Roundles or Coronets of Fellow gaping Flowers , 
like thofe of Dead Nettle , but much greater. 
VII. The third or greac Yellow Wild Sage with 
narrow Leaves. Its Root is blackifh and Woody. 
This Species has very many hoary and woolly Leaves , 
the lowerfides efpecially , more than the upper ; 
longer and narrower alfo , than thofe of the fmall 
Sage j from among which rife up fquare hoary and 
hairy Stalks , about a loot high , on which do grow 
fuch like long hoary Leaves as grow below , two al- 
ways fet together , at the Joints , one againft ano- 
ther ■, where the Flowers grow at fpaces , about the 
Tops of the Stalks , with two Leaves under them , 
broad at the bottom , and encompajjing the Stalks , 
being fhorter than the reft. The Flowers are large , 
open and gaping , like unto Sage , or fomewhat more 
like to thofe of the Dead Nettle or Archangel , of 
a Tellow color , and coming forth out of hoary , 
woolly Husks , covered with pale colored Hairs tki 
Tops by reafon of their length and weaknefs , bend- 
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