118 Morris : Revision of Species of Plantago 





Twenty sheets or specimens have been examined from Utah, 

 Nevada, Arizona, California, as follows : 7 in the U. S. National 

 Herbarium, 2 in the Gray Herbarium, 2 in the Herbarium of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, 4 in the Columbia University Her- 

 barium, 3 in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 1 in Dr. E. L. Greene's Herbarium. 



15. Plantago erecta nom. nov. 



P. Patagonica, var. Calif omica Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 236. 



lift 



1 : 1 23 



1885. 



This species is an aggregate. The following description and 



the annotations therefrom are to be considered temporary. 



A low bright or dark green acaidescent animal, generally 

 pubescent or sparingly villous : leaves basal, strict and erect or 

 rarely spreading, rather slender, several to numerous, narrowly 

 linear, obtuse at the apex, almost truncately and brown callous- 

 tipped, entire, usually involute towards the apex, narrowed to the 

 long slightly clasping petiole, 40-100 mm. by 1-2.5 mm., 3-ribbed, 

 the outer very near the margins and frequently forming a part of 

 the involution, pubescent with spreading hairs : scapes strictly erect 

 or rarely spreading, slender at the base, gradually dilated and tend- 

 ing to become stout at the base of the spikes, one to several, sur- 

 passing the leaves, 50-200 mm. high, occasionally higher, appressed 

 pubescent : spikes thick, four- to twenty- flowered, sometimes many- 

 flowered, erect, oval-capitate to oblong-cylindrical, 10—20 mm. by 

 6—8 mm., glabrous or pubescent : bracts small, rigid, thick, herba- 

 ceous, scarions-sided, about one half as long as the sepals, ovate, obtuse 

 or acute, with a few spreading hairs to sparingly villous : flowers 

 perfect : calyx with spreading hairs, its divisions thick, herbaceous, 

 scarious-sided, green to brownish, oblong, obtuse, 3 mm. long : 

 corolla with the tube just surpassing the calyx, its lobes strongly 

 reflexed, two to three times as long as the constricted dark drown 

 throat, orbicular, obtuse or abruptly apicidate, 2.25 mm. by 2 mm., 

 white : stamens shorter than the petals or very long-exserted from 



piirph 



the tube : pyxis one third surpassing the calyx, ovate, tru 

 retuse, 4-5 mm. by 2 mm., circumscissile at the Icrwer third 

 seeds two, dark brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



Seventy sheets or specimens have been examined from Califor- 



nia, as follows : 18 in the U. S. National Herbarium, 1 1 in the Gray 



Herbarium, o in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 



