mm. long or more, often tipped by persistent base of style; seeds 3 or 4, 2-2.5 

 mm. long. 



In moist or wet meadows and saline marshes, in mud on edge of lakes in N.M. 

 (McKinley Co.) and Ariz. (Coconino Co.), July-Aug.; Can. to N.M., Ariz, and 

 Calif. 



3. Plantago Rugelii Decne. Fig. 721 A. 



Annual or perennial; leaves erect or spreading, with thinnish pale smooth or 

 slightly hirtellous blades with red petioles, broadly elliptic to oval, to about 2 

 dm. long and half to two thirds as wide; spikes slender, dense to alternate-flowered, 

 attenuate to apex, up to 3 dm. long, about 5 mm. wide; bracts narrowly triangular- 

 lanceolate, keeled, shorter than the calyx; calyx lobes oblong to lance-triangular, 

 acutely keeled; capsules slenderly ellipsoid, 3-6 mm. long, circumscissile nearly 

 at base, 4- to 9-seeded; seeds black, oval, about 2 mm. long, not reticulated. 



Damp shores, roadsides and waste places, along clear spring-fed streams, gravel 

 bars in streams, creek beds, edge of sloughs, in small ponds, in Okla. (Pittsburg, 

 Washington, Cherokee, Mayes and Ottawa cos.), May-Aug.; from Que. to N.D., 

 s. to Okla. 



4. Plantago major L. Common plantain, lanten. Fig. 721 A. 



Glabrous or more or less sparsely pubescent stout perennial; leaves thickish, 

 strongly ribbed, spreading, ovate to broadly elliptic, rounded at apex, broadly 

 cuneate to subcordate at base, to 3 dm. long (including the broad channeled 

 petiole), undulate to sinuate-dentate or angular-toothed; scapes curved-ascending 

 or sometimes decumbent, commonly shorter than the leaves; spike dense, to about 

 2 (-3) dm. long and 8 mm. thick; bracts ovate, acute, shorter than to rarely 

 longer than calyx, brownish with a slender green keel; calyx lobes broadly ovate 

 to elliptic, 1.5-2 mm. long; corolla lobes 1-1.5 mm. long, reflexed; capsules ovoid, 

 broadly conic to rounded at summit, brown or purplish, about 3 mm. long, circum- 

 scissile below tips of sepals; seeds 6 to 16, angulate, reticulated, 1-1.5 mm. long. 



In marshes, wet meadows, in water on edge of streams, ponds and lakes, wet 

 gravel bars along streams, and in seepage areas, introd. from Eur. to become 

 a weed in many places in the U.S. and Can. as well as elsewhere. 



5. Plantago insularis Eastw. 



Low annual with short erect stem and abbreviated ascending branches, villous 

 and tomentose throughout; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, entire or with minute 

 callous teeth, to about 1 dm. long and 8 mm. wide, villous to lanate; scapes 

 numerous, axillary, erect or ascending, to 18 cm. high, more or less pilose to 

 tomentose; spikes many-flowered, erect, short-cylindric, to 2 cm. long and 8 

 mm. thick, villous to heavily tomentose; bracts oblong to ovate, scarious with 

 green or brown rigid glabrous to villous midrib, as long as the calyces or slightly 

 shorter; calyx lobes ovate to obovate, the midribs green or brown; corolla lobes 

 ovate, apiculate, concave, about 2 mm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, reflexed-spreading, 

 with a brown spot at base of each; capsule twice as long as the calyx, oval, 

 rounded at apex, about 4 mm. long and 2 mm. thick; seeds 2, brown, narrowly 

 oblong, very finely pitted, about 2.8 mm. long and 1.3 mm. wide, rim of face 

 thickened. Incl. var. fastigiata (Morris) Jeps. 



On wet gravel bars in stream beds and on cobbly slopes of canyons in s. Trans- 

 Pecos Tex., and Ariz. (Coconino, Mohave, Maricopa, Pinal, Pima and Yuma 

 COS.), Feb.-May; from s. Calif., Ut. and Nev. to w. Tex. and n. Mex. 



6. Plantago hirtella var. Galeottiana (Decne.) Pilger. 



Perennials with a short thick caudex covered with persistent leaf-bases and 

 long villous hairs; stems erect, 1.5-4 dm. tall with septate white hairs near the 



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