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The leaves of this ate narrower than those of the common 
sort; they are hoary, and some of them are indented on 
their edges towards the base, which indentures have the 
appearance of ears. The spikes of flowers are longer 
than those of the two preceding sorts, and the whorls are 
generally naked. The flowers are smaller, and of a deeper 
blue than those of the common sage.—Native of the South 
of Europe. 
10. Salvia pomifera, or apple-bearing sage.—Leaves cor¬ 
date, elliptic, blunt, tomentose, crenulate-waved at the edge, 
whorls in clusters; calyxes trifid, blunt. Stem shrubby, 
four or five feet high. Flowers of a pale blue colour. The 
branches have often punctures made in them by insects, 
producing protuberances as big as apples, in the same man¬ 
ner as galls upon the oak, and the rough balls on the briar. 
—Found in Candia. 
11. Salvia urticifolia, or nettle-leaved sage.—Leaves ovate- 
oblong, doubly serrate, calyxes three-toothed, upper segment 
three-toothed. Stem high, upright, smooth. Petiole an 
inch long. Flowers in whorls, six together, small.—Native 
of Virginia and Florida. 
12. Salvia Occidentalis, or West-Indian sage.—Root fi¬ 
brous, annual. Stem a foot high. Leaves shortly acumi¬ 
nate, hispid above, smooth beneath. Petioles four-cornered, 
red, pubescent. Bractes opposite, alternate, awned; within 
them two or three small blue flowers.—Native of the West 
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13. Salvia tiliaefolia, or lime-leaved sage.—Leaves cordate, 
wrinkled, equally-crenate, serrate, acute, calyxes smoothish 
awned. Stem herbaceous, upright, somewhat villose, with 
the angles blunt.—Native of Mexico. 
14. Salvia serotina, or late-flowering sage.—Leaves cor¬ 
date, serrate, soft, flowers raceme-spiked, corollas scarcely 
exceeding the calyx. Root biennial. Stem suffruticose, a 
foot and half high.—Supposed to be a native of the island of 
Chios. 
15. Salvia tenella.—-Leaves cordate, stem filiform, creep¬ 
ing, spikes ascending. This is an herbaceous annual plant, 
with long, capillary, creeping roots. It is easily known by 
its habit and smallness; and flowers all the year.—Native of 
Jamaica. 
16. Salvia viridis, or green-topped sage.—Leaves oblong, 
crenate, helmet of the corolla semi-orbicular, fruiting calyxes 
reflex. This is an annual plant, and has altogether the ap¬ 
pearance of Salvia horminum. The plant has a strong smell. 
—Native of Italy and Africa on the hills about Tunis. 
17. Salvia horminum, or red-topped sage.—Stems erect, 
about a foot and half high. Leaves shaped like those nf the 
common red sage. They flower in June and July, and their 
seeds ripen in the autumn.—Native of the South of Europe. 
18. Salvia virgata, or long-branched sage.—Radical leaves 
oblong, footstalked, contracted and wrinkled, with very 
numerous veins, undulated at the margins, of a dark green 
and smooth above, except on the midrib and veins: about 
six inches long, and two or three broad. Stems hirsute, 
about four feet high.—Native of the Pyrenean mountains. 
19. Salvia sylvestris, or spotted-stalked Bohemian sage.— 
Leaves cordate, wrinkled, biserrate, bractes coloured, shorter 
than the flower, acuminate, hairs of the stem and calyx 
simple.—Native of Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, the hills 
about Turin, &c. 
20. Salvia nemorosa, or spear-leaved sage.—Leaves cor¬ 
date, lanceolate, serrate, flat, bractes coloured, lower lip of 
the corolla reflex.—Native of Austria and Tartary. 
21. Salvia Syriaca, or Syrian sage.—Leaves cordate, 
toothed, the lower repand, bractes cordate, short, acute, 
calyxes tomentose. Flowers in small whorls, disposed in 
loose spikes at the top of the stalks; they are small and blue. 
—Native of Syria. 
22. Salvia viscosa, or clammy sage.—Leaves oblong, 
blunt, erose-crenate, viscid, flowers in whorls, bractes cor¬ 
date, acute. Root perennial. Lower part of the stem woody. 
—Native of Italy. 
23. Salvia heematodes, or bloody sage.—Roots like those 
of peony. Root-leaves five or six inches long, and almost 
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four broad at their base. Between these arise strong stalksr 
about four feet high, having on the upper part loose spikes of 
whorled flowers of a purple colour. —Native of Italy and Istria, 
24.. Salvia pratensis, meadow sage or clary.—Root per¬ 
ennial. Leaves oblong, nearly smooth, irregularly crenate, 
wrinkled and veiny.. Long whorled spikes of large blue 
flowers, six in a whorl, terminate the stem and branches, 
with a pair of very small heart-shaped acuminate bractes to 
each whorl. The flower-stalks and calyx, as well as the 
apex of the corolla, are hairy and viscid.—Native of many 
parts of Europe, in dry pastures and by hedge sides. 
25. Salvia bicolor, or two-coloured sage.—Leaves ovate, 
erose-toothed, flowers nodding, the middle segment of the 
lower lip of the corolla concave. This is a handsome plant. 
Stem pubescent, with blunt, angles.. Flowering branches 
rod-like, erect, pubescent, eighteen inches high or more.— 
Native of Barbary. 
26. Salvia Indica, Indian sage or clary.—Leaves cordate, 
sublobed at the sides, the upper ones sessile, whorls almost 
naked, very remote.—Native of India: it flowers from-May 
to July. 
27. Salvia Dominica, or Dominica sage.—Stem, towards 
the root, suffruticose, erect, pubescent; branches and stera- 
square. Leaves acuminate, wrinkled, hispid above, subhir- 
sute beneath. Flowers terminating, in whorls, peduncled, 
blue.—Common in the West Indies. 
28. Salvia verbenaca, vervian sage or- clary.—Leaves ser¬ 
rate, sinuate, smoothish, corollas narrower than the calyx. 
Root perennial, brown, the thickness of the middle finger, 
with numerous fibres. Stems nearly upright, two feet high. 
Flowers in whorls, almost naked, containing about six flowers. 
—Native of all the four continents. Not uncommon in-Eng¬ 
land, especially on chalky and gravelly soils. 
29. Salvia scabra, or rugged sage.—Rugged, leaves lyrate, 
toothed, wrinkled, stem panicle-branched.—Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
30. Salvia runcinata, or runcinate-leaved sage.—Rugged i 
leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, toothed, flowers spiked, whorled. 
—Found at the Cape of Good Hope. 
31. Salvia clandestina, or cut-leaved sage.—Leaves ser¬ 
rate, pinnatifid, very much wrinkled, spike obtuse, corollas 
narrower thaa the calyx. Stems blunt, villose, ascending, a 
span high; with two branches commonly at top.—Native of 
Italy. 
32. Salvia Austriaca, or Austrian sage.—Leaves ovate and 
cordate, root-leaves petioled, stem almost leafless, stamens 
double the length of the corolla. This species rises with a 
single stem about a foot high, tetragonal, and about the 
thickness of a quill. Flowers white, or very pale yellow, 
and of moderate size.—Native of Austria, Hungary, and 
Moldavia. 
33. Salvia Pyrenaica, or Pyrenean sage.—Leaves obtuse, 
erose, stamens double the length of the corolla.—Native of 
the Pyrenees. 
34. Salvia disermas, or long-spiked sage.—Leaves cordate- 
oblong, erose, stamens equal to the corolla. The whole plant 
is pubescent, with villose hairs glutinous at the tip.—Native 
of Syria. It flowers in July. 
35. Salvia rugosa, or wrinkled-leaved sage.—Leaves cor¬ 
date, oblong-lanceolate, erose-crenate, wrinkled, somewhat 
hairy, stamens shorter than the corolla. This approaches- 
very near to the preceding, and indeed scarcely differs from 
it, except in its short stamens reaching up only to the throat 
or aperture of the corolla, which is white.—Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope.—It flowers in July and August. 
36. Salvia Nubia, or Nubian sage.—Leaves oblong, sub- 
cordate, unequilateral, wrinkled, crenate, somewhat eared 
at the base. Stem a foot and half high, and a thumb’s thick¬ 
ness at bottom, tapering in its ascent, slightly villose with 
horizontal hairs: branches opposite and crosswise.—Native 
of Africa. It flowers in June and July. 
37. Salvia Nilotica, or Nile sage.—Leaves sinuate, angu¬ 
lar, crenate-toothed, teeth of the calyxes spiny, angles and 
margin of the aperture ciliate. Height about two feet: up¬ 
right, obtusely quadrangular; channelled on the sides, 
branched: 
