Because so long a period of extreme drought succeeds the rainy season, most of the vegetation is composed of annuals, which spring up simultaneously, and bloom together at about the same height above the ground, the general surface being but slightly ruffled by the taller phacelias, pentstemons, and groups of Salvia carduacea, the king of the mints.

I hung back, confused and blushing, and Byrrhena, for it was she, said to one of her companions: "It's Salvia's boy!

And the creeping, round-leaved houstonia was here, with a superfluity of a weedy blue sage (Salvia lyrata).

The meadows are literally covered with flowersbeautiful purple salvias, pinks such as we have at home in our gardens and glowing buttercups, color the banks of every stream.

Hence they changed to a whorl of salvias (2).

By the lake side the moisture-loving, rose-coloured primula reappeared in masses, and as I followed down its outgoing stream towards the camp, I waded through a tangle of columbine, white and blue; a great purple salvia, arnica, and a profusion of varied flowers in rampant bloom.

After which she went downstairs and picked golden glow for the living-room vases and scarlet salvia for the bowl in the dining-room.

SALVIA officinalis.

SALVIA Sclarea.

Salvia Sclarea.

Salvia officinalis.

And finally, highest of all are the flowers like labiates (rosemary, Salvia, etc.)