114 Morris : Revision of Species of Plantago 



5-10 mm., 5- 7 -nerved, the nerves continuing throughout the petiole, 

 villous : peduncles axillary, ascending to erect, very stout, terete, 

 solitary to several, surpassing the leaves, 120—400 mm. high, ap- 

 pressed pubescent to villous : spikes coarse y many-flowered, erect, 

 long-cylindrical, 3 5- 1 00 mm. by 5-6 mm., villous : bracts rigid, 

 with scarious margins, from one half to two times as long as the 

 sepals, triangular-subtdate, acute, 2.5-3 mm - by 0.75-1 mm., 

 pubescent : flowers perfect : calyx villous, its divisions herbaceous, 

 green, spatulate-oblong, rounded or retuse, 3 mm. long : corolla 

 lobes spreading and reflexed, the two laterals deflexed, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, sub-auricidate at the base, 2.25 mm. by 2 mm., white \ 

 the neck of the tube short or none : stamens four, barely exserted 

 from the tube : pyxis one third surpassing the calyx, slightly trun- 

 cate at the apex, 4 mm. by 2.5 mm., circumscissile at the middle : 

 seeds two, dark brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



Twenty-one sheets have been examined from Texas, as fol- 

 lows : 3 in the U. S. National Herbarium, 8 in the Gray Her- 

 barium, 7 in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1 

 in the Columbia University Herbarium, 2 in the Herbarium of the 

 California Academy of Sciences. Type specimen is F. Lind- 

 heimer's " no. 163, Flora Texana exsiccata" from Cat Spring, 

 Texas, April, 1844, of which there are two sheets in the Herbarium 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



j 10. Plantago lanatifolia (Coult. & Fish.) Small MS. 



P. Patagonica, var. lanatifolia Coult. & Fish. Bot. Gaz. 



18 : 303. 1883. 



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A low spreading acaulesceut annual, generally villous and at the 



base usually lanate : leaves basal, spreading, several to numerous, 

 oblanceolate to spatulate -linear, abruptly short-acuminate, sparingly 

 denticulate, narrowed to the margined petiole having a semi-clasp- 

 ing base, 50-80 mm. by 4-6 mm., j—y-nerved, villous to white 

 ivoolly -lanate : scapes basal, spreading to ascending, terete, several, 



ling and surpassing the leaves, 30-50 mm. high, short-villous : 

 r several-flowered, ascending to erect, short-cylindrical, 10-20 

 mm. by 6-10 mm. : bracts rigid, herbaceous, scarious-sided at the 

 base, two thirds to three quarters as long as the sepals, lanceolate- 

 deltoid to linear-subulate, acute, 2 mm. by 1 mm., slightly pubes- 

 cent : flowers perfect : calyx pilous, its divisions with narroiv scarwus 

 margins, green and zvhitc, narrowly oblong, obtuse or rounded, 

 2—5 mm. long : corolla lobes spreading and reflexed, triangular- 

 ovate, obtuse, 2 mm. by 2 mm., white, with small dark spots at the 



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