118 Morris : North American Plantaginaceae 



corolla one third surpassing the calyx, its lobes reflexed, two 

 times as long as the constricted throat, narroiuly ovate, obtuse, 

 slightly sub-auriadate at the base, 1.5 mm. by 1 mm., wJUte : sta- 

 mens four, equal to the throat : pyxis oblong, rounded, about 1.5 

 mm. by 1 mm., ciratmscissile at the lower third : seeds two, dark 

 brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



Four sheets or specimens have been examined from Texas as 

 follows : 1 in the U. S. National Herbarium, 1 in the Gray Her- 

 barium, i in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, I in 

 the Columbia University Herbarium. Type specimen is A. A. 

 Heller's no. 1769 from Kerrville, Texas, May 14-21, 1894, in the 

 U. S. National Herbarium. 



Plantago picta sp. nov. 



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or slightly caespitose, low and, if much exposed, spreading, or 

 erect : leaves crowded, several, linear, acute at the apex, callous- 

 tipped, entire or with very small callous teeth, the petioles scarcely 

 margined, except toward the semi-clasping base, 30—200 mm. by 

 2-4 mm., glabrate to villous : peduncles solitary to several, 10- 

 200 mm. high, pubescent : spikes with the internodes nearly 

 equalling to slightly surpassing the flozvers, long cylindro-contc 

 by the long lower to short upper bracts, 10-65 mm. long, pubes- 

 cent to villous : bracts herbaceous, sometimes foliaceous, ascend- 

 ing, three times as long as the basal to equalling the apical flow- 

 ers, linear, attenuate, acute, 2-15 mm. by 0.5-1.5 mm. at the 

 scarious-margined base, pubescent to villous : calyx villous, its 

 divisions zvhite-scarious, with light 



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iped, oblong, rounded, 2 mm. long : corolla miicti 

 surpassing the calyx, its lobes reflexed, about two times as long 

 as the constricted throat, ovate, acute or obtuse, sub-auriculate at 

 the base, 1.5 mm. by 1 mm., white : stamens four, just exserted 



ovate 



1.5 mm 



brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



the middle: seeds two, dark 



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Nine sheets or specimens have been examined from Utah, 

 izona and southern California as follows : 4 in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Herbarium, 3 in the Herbarium of S. B. Parish, 2 in my 

 <nvn herbarium from Mr. S. B. Parish. Type specimen is S. B. 

 Parish's no. 2643, from the Mouth of Santa Ana Canon, Cali- 

 fornia. April 1 8, 1893, »n the Herbarium of S. B. Parish. 



