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through the petiole, with fainter interposed nerves, 50-125 mm. by 

 3-6 mm., glabrate above and pubescent beloiv to heavily villous 

 throughout : peduncles ascending to erect, solitary to several, 5 



00 mm. high, pubescent to very villous : spikes rather stout, dense 

 or with the internodes equalling the floivers, erect, long-cylin- 

 drical \ 30-65 mm. long, villous : bracts rather rigid-herbaceous, 

 ascending to spreading, tivo to five times as long as the floivers, 

 linear-subulate to aristate, acute, 7-17 mm. by 0.5-1 mm., pu- 

 bescent to villous : flowers perfect : calyx villous, its divisions sea- 

 nous, with broad green midribs spatulate-oblong, rounded, 2.5 

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

 as long as the constricted throat, ovate, obtuse, sub-auriculate at 

 the base, 1.5 mm. by 1 mm., white to tawny: stamens four, and, 

 with the style, just exserted from the tube: pyxis equalling the 

 calyx, oval, rounded, 2.5 mm. by 1.5 mm., circumscissile at the 

 middle : seeds two, dark brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



Twenty -two specimens or sheets have been examined from 

 Assiniboia, Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, 

 Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, as follows : 5 in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Herbarium, 2 in the Gray Herbarium, 3 in the Herbarium 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 2 in the Herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, 2 in Columbia University Herbarium, 1 

 in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences, 2 in the 

 Herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 3 in the 

 Herbarium of the Canadian Geological and Natural History Sur- 

 vey, 1 in the University of Texas Herbarium, one in the Her- 

 barium of Dr. E. L. Greene, and 1 in my own herbarium, the last 

 being the photograph and bract and flower of Decaisne's type, 

 which sheet is loaned to the U. S. National Herbarium for public 

 reference. 



Plantago verticillata sp. nov. 



, A lax light green annual, with a short stem : leaves ascend- 

 ,n g, several, linear, acuminate at the apex, entire, widest and semi- 

 clasping at the base of the petiole, 3(-5)-ribbed. 80-100 mm. by 

 3-5 mm., pubescent: peduncles ascending, several, equalling or 

 surpassing the leaves, 100-160 mm. high, pubescent: spikes 

 lender, with the internodes 4-10 mm. long, erect, long-cylin- 

 drical, 5 o_ 70 mm long> mere i y pubescent : bracts slender, her- 

 baceous, spreading, three to Jive times as long as the flowers, 

 linear subulate, acute, 6-14 mm. by 0.5 mm.: flowers perfect, 

 conspicuously verticillate in threes ; calyx divisions scarious, with 

 ('road green midribs spatulate-oblong, rounded, 2 mm. long : 



