Plantaginaccae. Plantain Family. 
G> uverbs with basal or alternate leaves. Flowers perfect or polygamo® =| 
dioecious, in spikese Sepals 4, persistent. Corolla scarious, 
versistent, with 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2 or “, sented on the 
corolla. Ovary superior, 1-4-chambered. Fruit a circumscissile 
capsule (pyxis). 
Plantagzo (Tourn.) Le 
Annual or verennial acaulescent herbs with basal, longitudinally 
ribbed leaves. Stamens sometimes conspicuously exserted during anthesis, 
Sepals 4, scarious margined, Capsule circumscissile, the seeds l-several 
tn cach chamber, attached to the partition which falls away with the lid, 
o Leaves linear, 2-6 mm, wide; annuals (. Pe Purshii 
o Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 2-6 cm. wide; perennials 
2. Spike cylindrical, 5-20 cm, long; leaves ovate 9, P. major 
“” Spike ovoid-cylindrical, 2-3 cm, long; 
.» leaves lanccolate a Fs lanceolata 
le Pe Purshii Re & Se Annual, 5-50 cm. tall, hoary throughout with 
soft hairs; leaves 5-10 cm, long, 2-6 mm, wide, linear-oblanceolate, 
acute, narrowed toward the base, spikes dense, 2-8 cm, long, softly 
hairy, 4 mm, wide, on scapes 15-20 cm, long, bracts subulate, 5-4 mm, 
long, stiffish, ascending; seoals ovoid, 2.5 mm, long, with conspicuous 
scarious margins; corolla-lsbes somewhat shorter, ovate, stamens barely 
exserteds; pyxis obovate, blunt, dehiscent in the upver third, e-seedede 
In dry gravelly soil in open places at low elevations; hardly proper 
to our regione iloscow; Orofino Canyon; Hayden Lake. 
