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2. 8. Drummondii Benth. Soft-hirsute: stem 3 to 6 dm. high: leaves ovate and 
oval, obtuse, crenate, all the lower cordate; upper pairs distant; floral with nar- 
rowe d base, uppermost lanceolate or subulate and shorter than the flowers, which 
are mostly in sixes: calyx 8 mm. long, lips of corolla surpassing the slender-subu- 
late and ar istulate teeth.—Moist ground, eastern and southern Texas. 
** Root perennial: corolla scarlet-red, with narrow cylindrical tube much exceeding the 
calyx and lips. 
3. S. coccinea Jacq. Leaves ovate-lanceolate with cordate base, or oblong-del- 
toid, obtuse, crenate; floral sessile; upper very small: spike interrupted: flowers 
generally distinctly pedicelled: calyx cylindraceous, with tube twice the length of 
the slender subulate teeth, $ to nearly }the length of the (18 to 24 mm. long) corolla. 
—Western Texas. 
4. S. Bigelovii Gray. Minutely cinereous-pubescent: foliage, etc., nearly of the 
preceding: flowers fewer in the clusters, almost sessile: calyx only 6 mm. long, 
oblong-campanulate; its teeth broader: tube of corolla only 12 mm. long.—South- 
western Texas, in crevices of rocks. 
PLANTAGINEZR. (PLANTAIN FAMILY.) 
Chiefly stemless herbs, with regular 4-merous spiked flowers, stamens 
inserted on the tube of the dry and membranaceous veinless gamopet- 
alous corolla and alternate with its lobes. 
1, PLANTAGO Tourn. (PLANTAIN. RIBWORT.) 
Annuals or perennials, with ribbed leaves, small whitish flowers in 
a bracted spike or head raised on a naked scape, calyx of 4 imbricated 
persistent mostly searious-edged sepals, salverform or rotate corolla 
withering on the pod and with 4-parted border, 4 (rarely 2) stamens, 2- 
celled ovary with 1 to several ovules in each cell, single filiform ‘Style 
and long hairy stigma, and 2-celled 2 to several-seeded pod opening 
transversely so that the top falls off like a lid and the loose partition 
(bearing the peltate seeds) falls away. 
* Stamens 4: flowers all perfect: corolla not closed over fruit. 
+ Flowers with style first projecting from unopened corolla, the anthers long exserted after 
corolla has opened : seeds not hollowed on the face: corolla glabrous: leaves broad 
- and strongly ribbed. 
1, P. major L. (COMMON PLAINTAIN.) Smooth or rather hairy, rarely roughish: 
leaves ovate, oblong, oval, or slightly cordate, often toothed, abruptly narrowed 
into a channeled petiole: spike dense, obtuse: sepals round-ovate or obovate: pod 
ovoid, circumscissile near the middle, 8 to 18-seeded : seeds angled, reticulated.—W ay- 
sides and near dwellings. 
2. P. Rugelii Decaisne. Leaves asin the last, but paler and thinner: spikes long 
and thin, attenuate at apex: sepals oblong, acutely keeled: pods cylindraceous- 
oblong, cireumscissile much below the middle, 4 to9-seeded: seeds oval-oblong, not 
reticulated.—Extending from the Atlantic region into Texas. 
+ + Flowers of two sorts (as respects length of anthers and filaments) on different plants, 
mostly cleistogamous : corolla-lobes broad, rounded, persistently spreading: seeds 
2, boat-shaped : inflorescence and narrow leaves silky-pubescent or woolly, 
3. P. Patagonica Jacq., var. gnaphalioidesGray. White with silky wool: leaves 1 
to 3-nerved, varying from oblong-linear to filiform: spike very dense, 6 mm. to10cem. 
long, woolly: bracts not exceeding calyx: sepals very obtuse, scarious, with thick 
