995 
2e Pe major Le Common Plantain, Perennial with leaves ina basal 
rosette, the blades 10-15 cm, long, ovate, abruptly petiolate, both 
surfaces softly pubescent or glabrous; spike 10-20 em, long, 5-6 mm, 
wide, on a peduncle esually long; bracts broadly ovate, scarious 
margined, 2 mm, long, keeled; sepals similar, mostly obovate, 1.5-2 mm, 
long; corolla lobes 1 mm, long; pyxis ovoid to subglobose, 3 mn. long, 
dehiscent near the middle, 
vommon introduced weed of dooryards and waste places. Benton Cres 
Epling 7390, 
var. asiatica (L.) Dene, Pyxis ovoid, dehiscent medianly about -the 
lower half, well within the calyx.—Thatuna Hills, Epling and Houck 9115; 
Upner Priest Re, Boling 7549; Sandpoint, Epling 10344; Cocollala, pling; 
ridges north from Carbon, 2000 ft,, Leiberg 1517. 
3e Pe lanceolata 1. unglish Plantain, Perennial with a stout tap root, 
the leaves clustered, ascending or erect, 5-20 em, long, sparingly 
pubescent, lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong; spike compact, at first ovoid, 
1-2 cm. long, at length cylindrical, 2-3 cm, long; pvxis oblons, 2-seeded, 
the seeds concave on the inner side, 
Common weed of lawns and meadows, introduced from surope. 
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