116 Morris: Revision of Species of Plantago 



apex, callous-tipped, entire or with several brown callous teeth, 

 narrowed to the margined petiole having a semi-clasping base, 

 50—120 mm. by 1.5-4 mm., j-ribbed, villous : scapes erect or as- 

 cending, slender, sometimes flattened, two to numerous, surpassing 

 the leaves, 75—220 mm. high, sparingly pubescent to tomentous be- 

 low the spikes : spikes small, many-flowered, somewhat conspicuous 

 on account of the dark longitudinal streaks i?i the petals, erect, capi- 

 tate, 6-10 mm. (occasionally longer) by 6 mm., pubescent to vil- 

 lous : bracts rigid, scarious, with brown (or rarely green) midribs, 

 as long as the sepals, ovate or broader, obtuse (occasionally retuse), 

 2 mm. by 2 mm., pubescent on the midribs : flowers perfect : calyx 

 pubescent, its divisions scarious, with brown and green midribs, 

 broadly oblong, obtuse, 2 mm. long : corolla with the tube little 

 surpassing the caJyx, its lobes reflexed-spreading, two times as long 

 as the constricted throat, ovate, acute or obtuse, 2 mm. by 1.5 mm., 

 white, with broivn longitudinal streaks, in some flowers white 

 throughout: stamens four, equalling the corolla lobes; style 

 nearly equalling them : pyxis two times as long as the calyx, ovate, 

 rounded at the apex, 3.5 mm r by 2 mm., circumscissile just beloiu 

 the 7niddle : seeds two, light brown, narrowly oblong, smooth and 

 glossy. * 



Fourteen sheets or specimens have been examined from Cali- 

 fornia and Lower California, as follows : 4 in the U. S. National 

 Herbarium, 1 in the Gray Herbarium, 3 in the Herbarium of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, 2 in the Columbia University Herbarium, 

 4 in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. Type 

 specimen is Dr. Edward Palmer's no. 654, from San Quentin Bay, 

 Lower California, January, 1889, in the U. S. National Herbarium. 



13. Plantago fastigiata sp. nov. 



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ing branches, generally densely villous and tomentous : leaves al- 

 ternate, crowded on the branches, erect or ascending, numerous, 

 narrowly to lanceolate-linear, tapering to the acute callous-tipped 

 apex, entire or with scattered minute callous teeth, narrowed 

 to the semi-clasping petiole, 40— 120 mm. by 3-5 mm., j-ribbed, 

 densely white -villous : pedtincles axillary, erect or ascending, 

 erete, several to numerous, surpassing the leaves, 70- 170 mm. 



high, pilous to 



spikes: spikes many-flowered, 

 0-20 mm. by 5-7 mm., villous to heavily 



tomentous in smaller plants : bracts rigid, with tawny to green mid- 

 ribs, equalling the calyx, oblong to ovate, obtuse, 2.5 mm. by 2 mm., 

 glabrate to pilous : flowers perfect : calyx villous or pubescent, its 



