1246 PLANTAGINACEAE 
ristata Miehx. Leaves nearly basal, 5-25 cm. long: blades linear, 
aeu un entire and callous-tipped, narrowed into margined petioles, 3—5 5- 
nerved: ded erect, 10—50 em. tall, rigid, surpassing the leaves: a dense, 
2-15 cm. lo ong, pubescent bu not woolly: bracts linear, puberulent, 1-3 
long, ae ing the flowers by several times pud peas Ps ud 
calyx-lobes spatulate- elliptic or cuneate, 2-2.5 ong, obtuse, the outer 
herbaceous, s inner s ips mar gined: cae pape ‘lobes ovate 
or orbicular- ovate, 2 m ong, obtuse, cordate: capsule slightly narrowed 
Nd 25-3 n mm. us eke surpassing the calyx, circumscissile at the 
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middle: seeds 2, 2-3 mm. long.—Dry plains and prairies, various PORC 
La. to N. M., B. C., Alas, and Ill; naturalized eastward to Fla. and Me. 
5. P. lanceolata L. Lea es basal, often numerous, 4—30 cm. long; blades 
linear- dee tees to broadly ‘elliptic, e and callous-tipped at the a or 
acuminate at both ends, 3-7-nerved, entire or denticulate, narrowed into ps 
ES ned petioles; which are dilated and hairy at the pe scapes erect or ay 
, 1-7 dm . tall, d n spike Pie dense, 1-8 em. long, 6-8 mm. thick: 
bracts rhombic, 4-5 mm. long, the tip he nt: flowers prie ealyx-lobes 2—3 
m. long, broadly elliptic to oval, obtuse, the 2 lower ones usually united, 2E 
"m closely subparallel: cor olla a. lobes broadly lanceolate, 2—2.5 
mm. long: capsule ellipsoid, 3 mm. long, slightly longer than the calyx, circum- 
scissile at about the middle: seeds 2, fully 2 mm. long.—-(Ris-erass. ENG - 
PLANTAIN. RIPPLE-GRASS.)—Fields, roadsides, m waste-places, various prov- 
inces, Fla. to Tex., N. M., Alas., Sask., and N. Nat. of Eurasia.—(W. I.) 
—Spr.—fall. 
6. P. sparsiflora Michx. Leaves basal, eae em. long; a shorter than 
the blades, margined; blades lanceolate to very narrowly e M 
acute or acuminate, 5(—-7)-nerved, entire or . iudistin etly denticulate 
erect, 2—7 dm. tall, slender, simple: spi d A der, sometimes 3.8 dm . lon "T po 
brous or nearly so, uA -flowere d: braets ovate, very much shorter E the 
calyx: flowers perfect: calyx-lobes e to obovate, about 2 m ong, 
rounded, each with a green midrib and searious margins: elec an tube. 
sli C Quir the calyx, glabrous; lobes reflexed: capsule ellipsoid- 
cylindri ong, nearly twice as long as the calyx, circumscissile at the 
lower TR pes 3 id 2 mm. long.—Low marshy pinelands, Coastal Plain, 
Fla. to N. C.—Spr. -fal 
C.— 
7. P. Rugelii Decne. Leaves basal, 5—40 em. long; petioles irn) purple at 
the base; blades broadly ovate to elliptie, "ipa than the petioles or some- 
times shorter, 5-7-nerved, entire or shallowly toothed, s Or m 
narrowed at the base: seapes often surpassing the i. 10-50 tall: 
spike 2-30 em. long, sometimes broadly bracted P the base: braets fully one 
half as long as the calyx, acute: flowers perfect: sepals elliptic, acute 2-2.5 
mm. long, keeled, often scarious-margined: corolla glabrous; a ai 
peli aa alyx; lobes spreading: capsule conic or ellipsoid-conic, 4-4 
m ong, circumscissile ae ow the middle: seeds 4-9, 1.5-2 mm. mc ea 
idus, fields, waste-plaees and woods, various provinees, Fla. t ex, N. D, 
and N. B.; naturalized further westward.—Spr.—fall—The leaves are shining 
en. 
8. P. major L. ds basal, 5-85 em. long; E Aeon green at the 
base; blades ovate or oval, or rarely ‘elliptic. obtus eutish, 5—7-nerved, 
entire or MEAN to othed, ro m or M d = the ps longer than the 
iin or shorter: seapes su bn ing the lea 8-40 em. tall: spikes 4-20 
long, dense: braets ovate, b eine the calyx: flowers perfect: 
