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Show H the head and nerves; and for that purpofe no way is better than the commonone, of taking it in tea. In this manner, drank in large quantities, it is alfo diaphoretick ; and good in feverifh diforders. The Italians eat it as a prefervative of health, and fay a man need not die that has Sage. in his garden, Our people, from the fame principle, eat /age on bread and butter ; and there is no better way of taking it. Some prefer the /age of virtue to the common kind; but their qualities are nearly the fame; and this is the more pleafant. 2. Sage of Virtue. Salvia minor. PE FI"7 The root is long, thick, woody, and furnifhed with many fibres. The firft leaves are placed on flender footftalks; and they are oblong, moderately broad, of agreyifh green colour, and rough furface ; and at the bafe of each there ufually and naturally grow two {mall ones, called ears; but thefe are fometimes wanting. The ftalks are numerous, fquare, .flender, branched, and a foot or more in height. Theleaves on them refemble thofe from the root; but they are {maller. The flowers ftand at the tops of the. ftalksna long, loofe fpikes; and they are of a fine pale blue. The feeds are moderately large. It is a native of Spain. C.Bauhine calls it Salvia minor aurita et non aurita. Others only Salvia minor. Our gardeners, Sage of virtue. Many prefer it to the common fage for the fame purpofes, 3. Candy-Sage. Salvia anguftifolia Cretica. CCF 306. The root is woody, and hung with numerous fibres. ‘The ftem is woody and round; but the young branches are fquare. The leaves are oblong, narrow, and of a pale green: fometimes they are a little dented at the edges, at others not at all, and fome have a double large indenting near the bafe, in refemblance of the ears of the other /age. The flowersftand in loofe fpikes at the tops of the branches ; and are ofa faint whitifh purple. The cups are obtufe, and thé feeds that follow are large. IH) EPR! BYATL, The It is a native of the Greekiflands, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Salvia baccifera. Others, Salvia por And our gardeners, App or Berry-be. i All that is natural to the plant we havehere deferibed ; but it remains to explain the P apple-bearing fage. There is a fly in the Greek iflands, who young is hatched uponthis plant, in excrefcences raifed by the puncture ofits parent. Everyone knows the galls produced on our oak; and few areignorant oftheirorigin. A fly wounds the young fhoot of the tree; and the part fwells from the poifonous juice left by her in the wound, and rifes into this round fubftance, called a gall, So in Crete a fly wounds the /age, a gall is formed, and fromits fhape it is called an apple. They err who fuppofe it the fruit of the plant, for it has no fruit but the four feeds in each cup, 4. fEthiopian Sage. : : eas hyeais/ Salvia lanuginefa Athiopica. TLSVAS The root is long, thick, and hung about with fibres. The firft leaves are large, andnearly as broad as they are long, of a whitifh colour; andfo covered with a woolly matter, that they lofe the outline of their fhape. The ftalk is fquare, upright, and branched: it is thick fet with leaves, and is covered withthe fame white woolly matter. The leaves onthe ftalk refemble thofe from the root, and are as thickly covered withthe woolly matter. The flowers rife from the bofoms of the upper leaves; and are of a fnowy whitenefs; but the buttons on the tops of their threadsare yellow. The feeds are four after every flower; and they lie naked in the cup. It is a native of Greece, Africa, and fomeof the hotteft parts of Europe. C. Bauhine calls it Atbiepis foliis fm Others, Sclarea Zithiopica; and fome,thio mullein. It is diftinétly and properly a fpecies of /age. Theleaves are fometimes altogether undivided, fometimes cut in at the edges, and this in 4 flighter or deeper manner; and from hence authors have named one or two imaginary fpecies. They are only accidental varieties of the fame plant. PEARL TeSai HL ESRB ACL, and two fhorter, and the feeds ftanding naked in the cup. He joins the frechas and ti nis under one common genus; but the fpiked flowers of the /avender are fufficiently diftinguithed from the ott by their plain, fimple ftructure, and by the want of that fingular, coloured leaf the fre the top. 1. Common Lavender. Lavendula vulgaris. [°C GOLA The root is woody, long, thick, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. The plant rifes in form of a low, bufhy fhrub. The main ftem is covered with a rough, grey bark ; and the long young fhoots are green, The leaves are long, narrow, and undivided at the edges, of a pale green colour, and of a very ftrong and aromatick fmell. The flowers grow at the topsofall the fhoots in fpikes: they are fmall, and of a beautiful blue: thefe tops, with the flowers, have an extremely fragrant fcent. The feeds are fall and brown. It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, We keep it in gardens for its fragrance and its The leaves are numerous; and they are oblong, very narrow, and of a frefh and lively green : they have the fmell of Jevender leaves, but lels ftrong. The flowers ftand in fhort fpikes at the tops of the brdnches; and theyare larger than in the common lavender, andof a pale blue. The feeds are fmall and dark. Tt is commgnin the fouth of France, and in all the warmer parts of Europe. It flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Lax Others, Lavendula » and Spica. Anoil made fromthis ufed to be brought over from Italy, and here called oil of Spike. It has the fame virtues with the former, but in an inferior degree. virtues. C. Bauhinecalls it Lavendulalatifolia. Others, Lavendula vulgaris. 3. Jagged-leaved Lavender, Lavendula fois diffeétis. LLIES: a The tops of the plant, gathered juft as the The root is woody, irregular, and covered flowers are opening, poffefs its full virtues: they ever with fibres. are excellent in nervous diforders, good againft The plant is fhrubby, and a foot and half high. headachs and paralytick complaints, and eff The ftalks are fquare, and of a pale green, tremely cordial and ftrengthening. often towardthe bottomredifh. In vertigoes it is of great fervice, and againft The leaves are very beautifully divided in the tremblings of the limbs. It alfo operates by pinnated manner ; andthe {mall parts refembling urine, and promotes the menfes. pinne are again divided ornicked at the edges : A conferve of thefe tops is a very good methey are ofa whitifh colour, andof an extremely thod of ufing them. Thefpirit called /pirit of lafragrant fmell. vender alfo poffefles their virtues very fully; and The flowers are blue, and very fragrant: they has the advantage of many other good ingreftand in fhort fpikes uponthetops oflong, naked dients of the fame intention. This is beft taken fhoots in the manner of thofe of the commoz lavenon fugar. der; and they have the fame fragrant fmell. Thefeeds are {mall and brown. 2. Small Lavender. It is a mative of Spain, and flowers early in the Lavendula anguftifolia minor. ¢ PLIS3.L4 fummer. C, Bauhine calls it Lavendula folio diffeéto. The root is long, firm, woody, and hung Others, Lavendula multifido folio. eout with innumerable fibres. Theplant rifes like the ‘common lavender in a Its virtues are the fame with thofe of common fhrubby form, lavender, but in an inferior degree. Gare S27.) N°} Wa Gr (OH we 2a HE flower is labiated, and formed of a fingle petgle. G £ Ne |UhinigS XIX. LvA (V EVN DBR, ae NUE Ay FAXHE floweris labiated, and is formed of a fingle petal. The tubular part is cylindrick, an¢ onger than thant thethe cup. The upper lip is larger than the under, and is fplit into two parts: the longer underlip is divided into three rounded fegments of equal fize. The cup is fhorc: it is formedot a fingle piece ; andis obfcurely dented at the edge. og ‘The feed s are of an oval fhape, and four follow every flower; and the flowersftand in naked fingle fpikes, Linnzus places this among the didynamig gymnofpe rmia 3 the threads in the flower being two longét * and 375 III. 8: The tubular part is cylindrick, and longer than the cup. The upper lip is fplic into two part®) andis larger than the under. This laft is divided into three roundifh equal fegments. The Gi8eimall, ofan oval figure, and very obfeurely dented at the edges. The feeds are four after every flower5 andthey are {mall and oblong. The flowers are collected into a fpike, formedoffeveral regular feries, and terminated at its top by a beautiful, coloured leaf. : Linnaus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia; the flower having two longer and two fhorter threads, and the feeds ftanding naked in the cup. This author joins it in the fame genus with Javender ; but it hasits antient feparate name; and there is enough in Nature to fupport the diftin¢ction. 1. Common |
