120 Morris: North American Plaktaginaceae 



throat, round-ovate, obtuse, sub-aurieula'te at the base, 1.5-2 mm. 

 by 1.75 mm., tawny to white : pyxis equalling the calyx, nar- 

 rowly obovate, 3 mm. by 1.5 mm., cireumseissile at the middle : 

 seeds two, very dark brown, narrowly oblong. 



Five specimens have been examined from Arizona and north- 

 ern Lower California, as follows : 1 in the Herbarium of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, 1 in the Columbia University Herbarium, 

 2 in the Herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 1 

 in the Herbarium of S. B. Parish. Type specimen is E. A. 

 Mearns' no. 199, from Fort Verde, Arizona, April 3, 1888, in the 

 Columbia University Herbarium. 



Plantago speciosa sp. nov. 



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green acaulescent annual with a rather coarse root : leaves 

 crowded, erect, numerous, linear, long-tapering to the acute apex, 

 callous-tipped, with scattered slender callous teeth, the petioles 

 not distinguishable, 70-120 mm. by 2—3 mm., j -nerved, glabra te 



ipper surf 



70- 



; scapes asce 

 lling to surp 

 ;ent : spikes 



flowered, eoarse, hoary, conspicuous, erect, cylindrical, 20—4° mrn * 

 8 mm. : bracts rigid, herbaceous, scarious-sided beloiv the middlt 

 about the length of the calyx, triangular-lanceolate , widest at the 

 base, blunt at the apex, 3-4 mm. long, silky -villous : calyx divisions 

 searious, with broivn or purple midribs, obovate-oblong, rounded, 

 3-3.5 mm. long: corolla conspicuous its lobes strongly reflexed 

 orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2 mm. by 2 mm., very white, summit of 

 the throat very dark brown : stamens four, just exserted from the 

 tube : style equalling the lobes : pyxis curpassing the calyx, broadly 

 oval, obtuse, 3 mm. by 2 mm., cireumseissile at or just beloiv the 

 middle : seeds two, very dark brown, oblong, rough. 



Two sheets or specimens have been examined from California 



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as follows : 



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Massachusetts, i in my own herbarium from Mr. Grant. Type 

 specimen is G. B. Grant's no. 2412. from Avalon. Santa Catalina 



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Plantago erecta Morris, Bull. Torr. Club, 27 : .118. 1900 



P. Patagonia var. California Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 236. 



1894; not P. Calif ornica Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1 : i 2 3- 

 1885. 



