110 Morris : Revision of Species of Plantago 



Botanical Garden, 8 in the Columbia University Herbarium, 2 in 

 the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. 



4. Plantago Purshii R. & S. Syst. 3: 120. 20 Mh. 18 18. 

 P. Lagopus Pursh, Fl. 1 : 99. 18 14; not L. Sp. PI. 114. 



1753- 



P. gnaphaloides Nutt. Gen. L: 100. 2J My. 181 8. 

 P. Hookeriana F. & M. Ind, Sem. Petrop. 39. 1838. 

 P. Patagonica, var. gnaphalioides Gray, Man. ed. 2. 269. 

 1856. 



This species is an aggregate. The following description and 



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the annotations therefrom are to be considered temporary. 



A very polymorphous species ; a light green annual, with 

 acaidescent base or a very short, simple or branched stem, generally 

 snozv-white to tawny villous to thick-woolly : leaves basal or alter- 

 nate, erect, lax or rigid, several to numerous, linear, sometimes 

 wider above the middle, long-tapering to an acute apex, callous- 

 tipped, entire or with a few callous teeth, narrowed to the mar- 

 gined petiole having a semi-clasping base, 50-200 mm. by 2-18 

 mm., j-ribbed or with very faint ones interposed, rarely glabrateto 

 villous to very woolly : scapes basal or axillary, erect, stout, 

 numerous, surpassed by or surpassing the leaves, 50-400 mm. high, 

 villous or woolly :. spikes hoary, erect, long-cylindrical, 30- 130 mm. 

 by 5—7 mm., densely villous : bracts rigid, herbaceous, slightly 

 scarious-sided at the base, equalling to tzvice as long as the flowers, 

 linear- subulate, acute, 5—10 mm. long, villous: calyx villous, its 

 divisions herbaceous and scarious-sided, green, oblong, rounded, 3 

 mm. long : corolla surpassing the calyx, its lobes reflexed-spread- 

 ing, three or more times as long as the constricted throat, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, sub- auricula te at the base, 2 mm. by 2 mm., white: 

 stamens four, just exserted from the tube or with long capillary 

 filaments : pyxis one third surpqssing the calyx, oval, rounded, 4 

 mm. by 2 mm., cirewnscissile at the middle: seeds two, light 

 brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



Two hundred and eleven sheets or specimens have been exam- 

 ined from Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, North Dakota, 

 South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma 

 Territory, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, 

 Northwest Territory, Assiniboia, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, British 

 Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, as follows : 74 in the 

 U. S. National Herbarium, 30 in the Gray Herbarium, 52 in 



