Morris : North American Plantaginaceae 119 



Plantago oblonga sp. nov. 



A light cinereous-green acaulescent annual: leaves crowded, 

 ascending to erect, several, linear or slightly wider above the 

 middle, involute at the apex, callous-tipped, entire, the petioles 

 not distinguishable, semi-clasping at the base, 30-50 mm. by 2-$ 

 mm., glabrous except a mass of wool upon and about the base : 

 scapes basal, ascending to erect, solitary to several, equalling or 

 surpassing the leaves, 40-7 5 mm. high, pubescent : spikes ivith 

 the flowers imbricated, erect, oblong, 15-20 mm. by 8 mm., 

 pubescent : bracts rigid-herbaceous, sometimes sub-foliaceous, sur- 

 passing the basal to equalling the apical flowers, linear, blunt, 5-10 

 mm. by o. 5-0.75 mm., slightly pubescent at the base: calyx slightly 

 pubescent, its divisions scarious, with light green sub-coriacious 

 midribs, broadly oblong except the outermost, rounded, 3 mm. 

 long: corolla surpassing the calyx by the length of the lobes, 

 which are strongly reflexed, two times as long as the constricted 

 throat, triangular-ovate, acute or obtuse, sub-auriculate at the 

 base, 2 mm. by 1 mm, white: stamens four, just exserted from 

 the tube : pyxis equalling the calyx, broadly oblong, rounded, 3 

 mm. by 1.5 mm., circumscissile just below the middle: seeds two, 

 dark brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



Three sheets or specimens have been examined from the Colo- 

 rado Desert in California, as follows : 1 in the U. S. National 

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

 Type specimen is from C. R. Orcutt's collection from the Colorado 

 Desert, San Diego County, California, April, 1870, in the U. S. 

 National Herbarium. 



gnota sp. nov. 



A fuscous-green sub-caulescent coarse annual, generally vil- 

 lous : leaves crowded, spreading to ascending, several, linear to 

 lanceolate-linear, acute at the apex, callous-tipped, entire, nar- 

 rowed to the margined semi-clasping petiole, 60-100 mm. by ~ 

 mm., j -ribbed, villous below to scarcely pubescent above : 

 duncles axillary, several, stout, shorter than the leaves, 30- 



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half to two times as long as the flowers* linear to slightly at- 

 tenuate, abruptly callous-tipped, 5-10 mm. by 1-1.25 mm., very 

 silky-villous : calyx very villous, its divisions scanous Hit green 

 midribs, oblong, rounded, 4 mm. long: corolla little «tfp>»"g 

 the calyx, its lobes reflexed, much longer than the very short 



