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SALVIA hispanica. 
Spanish Sage. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIZA. 
Nat. ord. Lasratm. Jussieu gen. 110. Brown prod. 499. Sect. I. 
Stamina 2 fertilia; v. dum 4 fertilia, anther: omnium dimidiata, 
SALVIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 347. 
S. hispanica, foliis ovatis serratis, petiolis utrinque mucronatis, spicis imbri- 
catis, bracteis ovatis ciliatis attenuatis. Vahl enum. 1. 254. 
Salvia hispanica. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.1.37. Elling. salv. n. 18. Willd. sp. 
pl. 1.141. Hort. Kew. 1. 43. ed. 2. 1. 60. 
Salvia, foliis cordato-ovatis serratis rugosis, bracteis sub verticillis florum 
senis calycibus tridentatis. Arduin. spec. 10. t. 2. 
Caulis sesquipedalis, obtusé tetragonus, quadrisulcatus, retrorsiim pilosus. 
Folia petiolata, bipollicaria, attenuata, per petiolum parim decurrentia, acuté 
serrata, versiis basin integerrima, raré villosa. Petioli utringue mucrone ob- 
tuso. Spica tetragona, tripollicaris vel ultra. Bractew longitudine calycum. 
Calyces sepé quingue sub singuld bracted, villost, canescentes, tridentati, ob- 
longi, ventricost. Corolla pallidé cerulea, calyce parim longior : galeé vil- 
losd. Vahl loc. cit. 
Native of Spain and Italy. Cultivated in the Chelsea 
garden in 1739. An out-doors annual; flowering from June 
to August. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham; where the seed had been 
imported from the Botanic Garden at Madrid. 
Stem a foot and a half high, obtusely quadrangular, 
four-fluted, reversedly furred. Leaves ovate, acuminately 
tapered, sharply serrated, quite entire towards the tapered 
base, slightly decurrent along the petiole, thinly villous, 
about two inches long: petiole with an obtusely mucronate 
prominence on each side the base. Spike imbricated, 4-cor- 
nered, 3 inches long or more: bractes the length of the 
calyxes, ovate, acuminately tapered, ciliated or fringed. 
Calyzes often five within the bosom of a single bracte, villous, 
hoary, three-toothed, oblong, ventricose. Corolla light blue, 
little longer than the calyx; casque villous. 
