DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. Salvia. 
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Hinton Moor, on the edge next the corn-fields; Gamlingay quaking bogs, 
Cambridgeshire. Relhan. In a bog near the three mile stone between 
Wimbourne and Poole. Pulteney. Wet ditches near Rid, Yorkshire. 
Rev. Archdeacon Pierson, in Bot. Guide. Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. 
Mr. A. Aikin, ditto. Anglesey, in a turbary between Tyfry and Hendref. 
Welsh Bot. Peat-pits, Ravelrig-toll. Grev. Edin. E.) P. June—July.* * 
LY'COPUS.f Bloss. four-cleft; (nearly equal. E.) one seg¬ 
ment notched at the end : Stamens distant: Seeds four, 
blunt. 
L. europjE'us. Leaves deeply indented and serrated. 
Curt. 201— FI. Dan. 1081— (E. Bot. 1105. E.)— Kniph. 5— Riv. 22. Pseud- 
mar r. pal. — Matth. 1002— Dod. 595. 2— Lob. Obs. 283. 2— Ger. Em. 
700. I—Park. 1230. 1— Pet. 32. 6—H. Ox. xi. 9. 20 —Trag. 9. 2 —J. B. 
iii. 318. 2. 
Cal. with four or five clefts; segments unequal. Bloss. whitish, with a 
tinge of purple; somewhat hairy within; upper segment slightly notched 
at the end; lower one with a few purplish spots on the inside. Betwixt 
the two stamens it is not uncommon to find two other shorter Jilaments 
without anthers; and I once found them with anthers. Germen upon a 
yellow glandular receptacle. Stem (two feet high, E.) with four angles 
and four hollow sides; rather hairy. Branches opposite, rising from the 
bosom of the leaves. Leaves a little hairy, (opposite, nearly sessile, 
large, egg-spear-shaped. E.) Flowers several together in the bosom of 
the upper leaves. 
Var. 1. Laciniatus. Jagged. Leaves deeply divided. 
Barr. 154— H. Ox. xi. 9. 21— Pink. 45. 1. 
Water Horehound. Common Gypsy-wort. (Irish: Eeohran Curroigh. 
Welsh : Lips yr hudolesau cyffredin. E.) Sandy ground on the banks 
of streams and ponds. P. July—Sept.| 
SAL'VIA.§ Bloss. gaping : Filaments attached transversely to a 
little foot-stalk. 
* (M. Hayne, of Berlin, has made the observation that the vesicles at the roots of 
each of these species consist of a transparent, tough, horny, and elastic membrane, and 
are furnished with an aperture, closed by a lid that only opens outwardly. Before the 
flowers appear the vesicles are filled with water; but whe;i the plant brings forth the 
scape, and approaches the time of flowering, the water disappears, and, instead of it, 
air is secreted in them, by which means the plant rises to the surface of the water; so 
that the flowers may unfold in open air. But when the time of flowering is over, and 
the seeds are arrived at perfection, the vesicles again fill with the former fluid, and the 
plant sinks to the bottom. Annals ii. E.) 
*f* Auaof, a wolf, and 7rour, a foot. E.) 
$ It dyes black. The juice gives a permanent colour to linen, wool, and silk, which 
will not wash out. (It is called Gypsy-herb , because, as Threlkeld quaintly reminds 
us-, “ those strolling cheats called gypsies do die themselves of a blackish hue with the 
juice of this plant, the better to pass for Africans by their tanned looks and swarthy 
hides, to buhble the credulous and ignorant by the practice of magic and fortune telling, 
they being indeed a sink of all nations, living by rapine, filching, pilfering, and impos¬ 
ture.” E.) Sheep and goat’s eat it; cows and horses refuse it. Cassida viridis feeds upon it. 
§ ( Salvere , to preserve; front its healing qualities : 
“ Cur moriatur homo cui Salvia crescit in horto ?” 
according to the school of Salemum. E.) 
