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Salvia. ~Turn. In. R. H. x8o. rab. 83. Lin. Gen. Plant. 39. ("u called
from Salw, w Salz I', 
                          i. e. the Health of Ljf) Sage; in French, Saug'e.
    1The Characters are, 
    THE Empalement of the Flower is tubulous, of one Leaf, ftriated, and
large at the Mout 
 it is cut into four Parts, as reprefented at A ; the Flower is of the Lip
Kind, of one Petal. 
 Part is tubulous; the upper Part is large and compreffed, the upper Lip
is Concave incurVei 
 dented at the Point ; the lower Lip is broad and trifid, the middle Segment
being large rog 
 indented. It has two ifort Stamina, as B, which itand tranfverfe to the
Lip, and are fix 
 middle to the Tube, to whole Tops are fixed Glands, upon the upper Side
of which fit the 
 it has a four-pointed Germen, as C, fupporting a long flender Style, reprefented
at D, fituatei 
 the Stamina crowned by a bifid Stigma, E. The Germen afterward becomes four
roundi 
 which ripen in the Empalement. 
    THIs Genus of Plants is ranged in the firff Secaiorn of L~inneus's fecond
Clafs, entitled D 
MONOGYNIA, which includes thofe Plants, whofe Flowers have two Stamina and
one Style. , 
places it in the tirfi Section of his fourth Clafs, which contains the Herbs
with a Lip Flow 
Petal, whofe upper Lip is hooked. 
    This Specie is, 
    SALvIA foliis lanceolatis ovatis integris crenulatis, floribus verticillato
fpicatis.  Sage, wi 
thaped, oval, entire Leaves, which are flightly crenated on their Edges,
and Flowers growing it 
Spikes. This is the Salvia major. C. B. P. The greater Sage. Mill. Sp. Ift.
     THIS Sort grows naturally in the fouthern Parts of Ezerope, but 
  ttfe; it is a Variety of the greater Sage, and is ufed as a Medicinal 
  Nigra.  The Stalks of this grow upright, and divide into feveral Bra 
  broad .Heart-fhaped woolly Leaves, fianding upon long Foot Stalks, 
  Edges, and the upper Surfaces are rough ; the Leaves which are UFp 
  fLaped and Rand upon (horter Foot Stalks, the Flowers grow upon v 
  of the Branches; the Whorls are pretty far diffant, and but few Flower
  it Flowers in fuly and the Seeds ripen in Autumn. 
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Dianthus. Lin. Gen. Plant. 565. Caryopbyllus, Raii. Meth. Plant. io( 
                        Flower, in French, Oeillet, commonly called Caj 
     THE Charaders are, 
     THE Flower hath a long cylindrical Empalement, A, which is 
 whofe Tails are as long as the Empalenment, but their upper Part is br 
 Borders ; thefe are inferted in the Bottom of the Tube, and fpread op 
 reprefented at B, which are as long as the Empalement, terminated I 
 as C; in the Center is fituated an oval Germen, D, fupporting two Sty 
 longer than the Stamina, crowned by recurved Stigmaa: the Germen 
 Capfiule with One Cell, opening in four\Parts at the Top, and filled with
    THIS Genus of Plants is ranged in the fecond Seafion of Lin" vs't
 DIGYNJIA, the Flowers having ten Stamina and one Style; Tournefort j 
 eghteenth Clafs, which includes the Herbs with a Clove Gilly Flow 
 Fruit. 
    THIs is the 
    DiANTHUS floribus folitariis fquamis calycinis fubovatis breviffimis,
with Flowers growing fingly, a fcaly Empalement, which is ihort, a 
known by the Appellation of Carnation with a flaked Flower. 
    TnERE are great Varieties of this Flower in the Gardens of the 
proved them greatly by Culture, but they frequently alter in, their ta 
with fpotted Flowers, called Piquettees, were chiefly cultivated, but 
do not burft their Empalement, and are termed Whole Blowers, are.in 
of them which have full Stripes in their Petals, with lively Colours, wI
jagged at their Edges, as the Sort reprefented here; thefe are termed by
FIwers, to diffingulth them from the Piquettees, as every Seafon furni 
Flowers, fo there are Titles giveu them according to the fancy of the O 
the Seeds ripen in Autumn. M~ll