Morris: North American Plantaginaceae 121 



A green acaulescent annual, generally pubescent or sparingly 

 villous, noticeably erect in habit : leaves basal, strict, several to 

 numerous, narrowly linear, obtuse at the apex, almost truncately 

 and brown callus-tipped, entire, usually involute towards the apex, 

 slightly clasping at the base, 40-140 mm. by 1-4 mm., 



3-ribbed, 



frequently f 



a part of the involution : scapes strictly erect or rarely ascending, 

 stout, 35-240 mm. high: spikes thick, four- to many-flowered, 



ipitate 



0-40 mm. by 6-8 mm. : bracts 



small, rigid, herbaceous, scarious-sided, about one half as long as 

 the sepals, deltoid-lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or acute : calyx di- 

 visions 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 brown throat, 



ptly 



ipiculate, 2.25 mm. by 2 mm., white : stamens shorter than the 

 petals or (dimorphic) very long exserted from the tube : p) 



'passing 



5 mm. 



by 2 mm., circumscissile at the loiver third, purple: seeds two. 

 dark brown, oblong, finely pitted. 



Fifty-eight sheets or specimens have been examined from Cali- 

 fornia and Oregon, as follows : 1 1 in the U. S. National Her- 

 barium, 2 in the Gray Herbarium, 4 in the Herbarium of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, 1 in the Columbia University Herbarium, 

 3 in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, 18 in the 

 Herbarium of the California Academy of 'Sciences, 5 in Dr. h. L. 

 Greene's Herbarium, 1 in the Herbarium of the University of 

 Wisconsin, 7 in the Herbarium of S. P. Parish, 1 in the Herbarium 

 of W. N. Suksdorf, 1 in the Herbarium of G. B. Grant, 4 in my 

 own herbarium. 



Plantago obversa sp. nov. 



Morris, in oart. Bull. Torr. Club, 27: 1 18. 1900 



A 



erect 



tapering to the ap 



erect, racner slender, numerous, imiu/, w S ~r <■> ' 



herbaceous or callous-tipped, with scattered long callous-subulah 

 teeth, the Petioles not distinguishable, 70-200 mm. by 2-3 mm.. 



by 2-3 mm.. 



3-ribbcd, glabrate to villous: scapes spreading to erect, rainu 

 c/^„ 'u£_. . 1 „,.^c«w ///,- leaves 70-300 mm. high. 



passing the leaves 70-300 



Jivui, simidry to several, j«//"«->->*",5 "~ ' ~ >• 



appressed pubescent : spikes very coarse, erect, oblong to <j - 

 drical, 15-40 mm. by 8 mm., pubescent: bracts smati, ng£ 

 herbaceous, scarious-sided, about one half as long a tin epah 

 ovate or sometimes deltoid-lanceolate and then slightly nun , than 



