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SALVIA austriaca. 
Austrian Sage. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LaBiats. 
SALVIA. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 347. 
§. Foliis basi cordatis. Bracteis calyce minoribus aut marcidis. 
S. austriaca; foliis ovatis cordatisque eroso-sinuatis; radicalibus petiolatis, 
- caule subaphyllo, staminibus corolla duplo longioribus. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 1. 1. 42. 
S. austriaca.. Jacq. fl. austr. 2. t. 112. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 138, Schrad. fl. 
_ germ. 1. 64.. Rom. et Sch. 1. 247. 
Herba 2-3-pedalis, perennis, ramosa, foetens. Folia radicalia humifusa, 
magna, cordato-oblonga, sinuata, lobis grosse dentatis, supra plana glabra 
ad venas pubescentia, subtis bullata ad venas villosa, petiolo purpurascente, 
supra plano subcanaliculato, pubescente ; caulina opposita, oblonga, sinuata, 
dentata, utrinque glubriuscula, petiolo canaliculato, piloso, basi connato. 
Caulis quadrangularis, erectus, ramosus, obtusangulus, villis mollibus, paten- 
tibus, glandulisque vestitus: Bractew sessiles, ovate, acute, integra, villose. 
Verticilli sexflori. Calyces ternati, pedicellati, villosissimi, bilabiati, striati, 
labio superiore tridentato, inferiore bifido. Corolla pallide flava, calyce 
dupld longior, gale& compressd, villis purpureis rectis sparsis ornatd, labii 
lacinis lateralibus patentibus, oblongis, falcatis, bast pallide violacets, inter- 
medio subrotundo, cucullato, corrugato. Stamina longissima, divaricata, 
prope basin calcarata, calcare hinc marginato. _ Anthera. linearis unilocu- 
laris. Stylus filiformis, staminum. longitudine, ascendens, apice violaceus. 
Stigma Lifidum, inequale. _Ovaria glabra, disco carnoso inserta. Akenia 
glabra, parce mucilaginea. 
No genus is more strictly natural than «Salvia, as’ 
confined to the Asiatic and European species, nor can any 
be more positively defined; even when including those from 
Equinoctial America and Southern Africa ; “and yet the 
variation in the shape of the corolla, in the modifications of 
stamina, in the structure of stigma, ‘and in the form of 
akenia, and of the discus in which these latter are seated, 
is such as in ordinary cases would. divide: the plants now 
