108 Morris : Revision of SpeCies of Plantago 



Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, 

 Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Flor- 

 ida, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois, 

 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisana, Northwest Territory, 

 Yukon Territory, South Dakota, Nebraska, Indian Territory, 

 Oklahoma Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, as follows : 39 

 in the U. S. National Herbarium, 37 in the Gray Herbarium, 58 in 

 the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 27 in the Co- 

 lumbia University Herbarium, 7 in the Herbarium of the Field 

 Columbian Museum, 1 in the Herbarium of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, 1 in my own herbarium. 



2. Plantago aristata Nuttallii (^Rapin) 



P. Nuttallii Rapin, Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. 6: 470. 1827 

 (1828). 



P. squarrosa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. s. 5 : 178. 1837 ; 

 not Murr. Comm. Goett. 38. pi. j. 1781, from Mem. Soc. Linn. 

 Par. 6: 488. 1827. 



jP. filiformis Dene. ; DC. Prod. 13: 714. 1852. 



P. Patagonica, var. aristata Gray, in part, Man. ed. 2. 269. 



1856. . 



A bright or dark green annual, with a filiform root y with a short 

 erect stem, pubescent above, with a row of white hairs at the nodes 

 within each leaf -sheath : leaves alternate, strictly erect, several, 

 filiform-linear to filiform, callous-tipped, sometimes involute, ses- 

 sile and sheathing at the base, 30— 150mm. long, glabrous: pe- 

 duncle terminal, erect, slender, solitary, two or more times as long 

 as the leaves, 60—280 mm. high, pubescent : spike small, 2—20- 

 flozuered, erect, capitate to oblong, 4—25 mm. by 3-6 mm., pilous : 

 bracts rigid, herbaceous, with small scarious margins at the base 

 only, two to t J tree times as long as the floivers, linear-aristate, c an- 

 nate at the base, acute, 5-1 5 mm. long, glabrous or with a few 

 hairs : flowers perfect : calyx pilous, its divisions with narraiv or 

 zvide scarious margins, dark green or brown, oblong, obtuse, 

 2—5 mm. long : corolla equalling the calyx, its lobes spreading, 

 equal to the constricted neck, ovate to round-ovate, obtuse, sub- 

 auriculate at the base, 2 mm. by 1.5 mm., white: stamens four, 

 long or short -exserted : pyxis two times as long as the calyx, ob- 

 long, obtuse, 3.5 mm. by 2 mm., circumscissile at the middle : seeds 

 two, dark brown, oblong, rough. 



