SAL VIA PAT'ULA. 
SPREADING SAGE. 
Class Order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LABIATit;. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Portupfal. 
3 feet. 
May to July, 
Biennial. 
in 1805. 
No. 714. 
The word Salvia, and the virtues of the plant, 
have been noticed under No. 420. 
This is a remarkably handsome hardy plant, 
raised from Russian seeds ; and is supposed to be 
the Salvia argentea of old authors. It is still the 
more desirable from its ready growth in any soil, 
and the ease with which it admits of increase either 
by division or seeds. 
The genus Salvia stands as a prominent exem- 
plification of the industry of modern botanists, and 
as one amongst thousands of instances of the inex- 
haustible riches of Nature. In British herbariums 
we find but two species of Salvia as natives of our 
own country ; added to these there are, perhaps, 
twenty exotic species in cultivation, which may be 
considered as forming a genus of moderate extent; 
but how are we surprised on referring to the works 
of modern botanists, to find that not less than two 
hundred and eighty distinct species have been col- 
lected, examined, named, and arranged ; every in- 
dividual possessing a well-defined character by 
which it can hereafter be readily recognised, but still 
all so closely allied as not to admit of separation 
