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branched: spikes terminal, verticillated, and either simple 
or compound: whorls remote, horizontal, with three flowers 
on each side.—Supposed to be a native of Egypt. 
38. Salvia Mexicana, or Mexican sage.—Stem shrubby, 
eight or ten feet high, sending out slender four-cornered 
branches of a purplish colour. Leaves thin, pale green, 
and hairy on their under side. Flowers in close thick spikes 
at the end of the branches. Corolla of a fine blue colour.— 
Native of Mexico. 
39. Salvia amethystina, or amethystine sage.—Stem suf- 
fruticose, bluntly four-cornered, rough-haired. Leaves cor¬ 
date-oblong, serrate, green and rough-haired above, very 
closely woolly, and white beneath. Whorls rather remote, 
composed of about six flowers, without any bractes. Pe¬ 
duncles spreading, rough-haired, one-flowered.—Native of 
New Granada. 
40. Salvia fulgens, or fulgid sage.—Stems three feet high, 
reclining at bottom, and then upright; branches opposite. 
Leaves almost equal, on channelled petioles. Flowers in 
terminating spikes, composed of six-flowered whorls.—Na¬ 
tive of Mexico. 
41. Salvia formosa, or shining-leaved sage.—Leaves sub- 
eordate, helmet of the corollas bearded, calyxes three-lobed, 
stem frutescent.—Native of Peru. 
42. Salvia tubiflora, or long-tubed sage.—Leaves cordate, 
orenate, somewhat hairy, calyxes trifid, corollas very long, 
tubular, stamens standing out. Stem suffruticose, striated, 
villose at top.—Native of Lima in South America. 
43. Salvia longiflora, or long-flowered sage.—Leaves 
ovate, acute, serrate, pubescent; calyxes trifid, corollas very 
long, tubular, pubescent, stamens the length of the corolla. 
—Native of Mexico. 
44. Salvia coccinea, or scarlet-flowered sage.—Leaves 
cordate, acute, tomentose, serrate; corollas narrower than 
the calyx, and twice as long.—Native of East Florida. 
45. Salvia pseudococcinea.—-This resembles the preceding, 
but the leaves are ovate, smoothish, unequal at the base; the 
stem is hairy, the corollas longer, widening at the throat.— 
Native of South America. 
46. Salvia Hispanica, or Spanish sage.—Leaves ovate, 
petioles mucronate each way, spikes imbricate, calyxes trifid. 
Root annual: stem a foot and half high, blunt at the cor¬ 
ners, four-grooved, clothed at top with reflex white hairs. 
—Native of Spain and Italy. 
47. Salvia Abyssinica, or Abyssinian sage.—Lower leaves 
lyrate, upper cordate, flowers in whorls, calyxes mucronate, 
ciliate. Stems about a foot and half high, upright, tetra¬ 
gonal and hairy.—Native of Africa. 
48. Salvia verticillata, or whorl-flowered sage.—This 
sends out from the root a great number of heart-shaped leaves, 
serrate, deeply veined. From among these arise the stalks, 
two feet and a half high, having at each joint two leaves 
which are also heart-shaped, and half embrace the stalk. 
At the two or three upper joints a long flowering-stalk 
comes out on each side: these, as well as the principal stalk, 
have whorls of small blue flowers, not much unlike those of 
the Salvia verbenaca, but larger. The spikes are more than 
a foot long, and towards the top the whorls are nearer to¬ 
gether.—Native of Germany and Austria. 
49. Salvia napifolia, or rape-leaved sage.—Leaves cor¬ 
date, crenate-toothed, lower ones hastate and lyrate, whorls 
almost naked, upper lip shortest, but the middle one longer, 
and very obtuse.—Native of the warmer parts of the globe. 
50. Salvia glutinosa, yellow sage.orclary.—Root composed 
of strong woody fibres. Leaves four inches long, and' three 
broad at the base, of a pale yellowish-green colour, upon 
foot stalks three' or four inches long. Stems strong, near 
four feet high, having smaller leaves below, and the upper 
part closely set with whorls of large yellow flowers. The 
whole plant is very clammy, and has a strong scent some¬ 
what like common garden clary. The flowers are used in 
Holland to give a flavour to the Rhenish wines.—Native of 
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and the south of 
France. 
51. Salvia Barrelieri.—-Leaves unequally toothed, acumi- 
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nate, cordate, angular-hastate at the base, whorls almost 
naked. Stems upright, three feet high. Flowers large, 
blue, in distant whorls.—Native of Spain. 
52. Salvia Canariensis, or Canary sage.—Leaves hastate- 
triangular, oblong, crenate, obtuse. Stem shrubby, five or 
six feet high, dividing into many branches covered with a 
flocky down. The flowers are of a light blue colour, and 
are ranged in whorled spikes, having two small leaves under 
each whorl.—-Native of the Canary Islands. 
53. Salvia aurita, or eared sage.—Villose, leaves ovate, 
toothed, eared, flowers whorl-spiked.—Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
54. Salvia Africana, or blue-flowered African sage.— 
Leaves roundish, serrate, truncate and toothed at the base. 
This rises with a shrubby stalk four or five feet high, 
dividing into branches. The flowers come out in whorls 
towards the end of the branches; they are of a fine blue 
colour.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
55. Salvia aurea, or gold-flowered African sage.—Leaves 
roundish, quite entire, truncate and toothed at the base. 
Stalk seven or eight feet high, covered with alight coloured 
bark, sending out branches the whole length which grow 
almost horizontally. Flowers in thick short spikes at the 
end of the branches; they are very large, and of a dark gold 
colour.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
56. Salvia colorata, or coloured-calyx African sage.— 
This has great resemblance to Africana, but the branches 
are stronger, and grow more erect.—Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
57. Salvia paniculata, or panicled African sage.—Stem 
frutescent, erect. Leaves small, wedge-form, sharply toothed.. 
—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
58. Salvia acetabulosa.—Leaves obovate, toothed, calyxes 
bell-shaped, spreading, hairy, stem shrubby.—Native of the 
Levant. 
59. Salvia spinosa, or thomy-catyxed sage.—Leaves 
oblong, repand, calyxes spiny, bractes cordate, mucronate, 
concave. Stem a foot high, obscurely quadrangular, hir¬ 
sute, brachiate.—Native of Egypt. 
60. Salvia Tingitana, or Tangier sage.—Leaves cordate, 
erose toothed, calyxes spiny, bractes quite entire, cordate, 
mucronate, concave, ciliate. Very nearly allied to the 
preceding.—Native of Northern Africa. 
61. Salvia sclarea, or common clary.—Lower leaves 
seven or eight inches long, and four broad at the base, 
ending in blunt points. Stems large and clammy, about 
two feet high, sending out small opposite side branches. 
Flowers in loose terminating spikes, composed of whorls, of 
a pale blue colour. It is a biennial plant.—Native of Syria. 
62. Salvia involucrata.—Leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrate, 
flowers in terminating spikes, bractes very large, coloured. 
This plant is very beautiful from the number and size of the 
flowers.—Native of Mexico. 
63. Salvia ceratophylla, or horn-leaved sage.—Root 
biennial. Leaves very thick and woolly, eight or nine 
inches long, narrow, cut into obtuse segments nearly oppo¬ 
site on their sides almost to the midrib, somewhat like a 
stag’s horn in shape, and spreading flat on the ground. 
Stem more than a foot high, thick, and very woolly, 
sending out branches by pairs, and having long narrow 
leaves in pairs at each joint, which are serrate. Flowers 
in loose whorled spikes, at the top of the stalks barren. 
Corolla white.—Native of Persia. 
64. Salvia iEthiopis, woolly sage, or clary.—Leaves of a 
thick substance and very woolly, especially on their under 
side, the upper side rugged and wrinkled, with several 
longitudinal veins diverging from the midrib. Stems about 
two feet high, sending out many branches in pairs. Flowers 
in whorled terminating spikes.—It is a biennial plant._ 
Native of France, Austria, Illyria, Italy, Greece and Africa. 
65. Salvia phlomoides.—Leaves lanceolate, almost entire, 
stem woolly and viscid.—Native of Spain, in the mountains 
about Siguenza. 
66. Salvia argentea, silvery-leaved sage, or clary.—Leaves 
oblong, tooth-angular, woolly, upper whorls barren, bractes 
concave. 
