The garden salvia, for instance, slaps the burly bumblebee upon the back and marks him for her own as he is ushered in to the feast.
"My Studio Neighbors"
William Hamilton Gibson
The morning was quite Como-like-fair and blue and calm; the sun shining on the far wooded hills, and on the sparkling little villages at their foot; the green lake still running high, with here and there a white tip breaking; a blaze of sunlight on the gardens below-on the green acacia-branches and the masses of scarlet salvia-and on the white hot terraces where the lizards lay basking.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
For these curious contrivances in the case of salvia, Coryanthes, and other plants, would in any case have been no use to the plant till the whole machinery was complete.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell