868 



Plantaginaceae 



Plantago 



~ 50 



Map 1899 



Plantago major L. 



~50 



Map 1901 



Plantaqo anstata Michx 



Leaves linear, generally much less than 5 mm wide; mature spikes usually 



5-6 mm wide near the base; bracts silky-pubescent 6. P. Purshii. 



Corolla lobes erect and closed over the top of the capsule. 



Leaves spatulate to obovate; stamens 4; seed concave on the inner face, the sur- 

 face not plainly punctate 7. P. virginica. 



Leaves linear-filiform; stamens 2; seed umbilicate on the inner face, the surface 



plainly pitted, about 1.5 mm long 8. P. pusilla. 



Plants with erect, leafy stems; flowers capitate at the ends of axillary peduncles. 

 (See excluded species no. 576, p. 1091) P. indica. 



1. Plantago cordata Lam. Heartleaf Plantain. Map 1898. Reported 

 from Kosciusko County and from the Lower Wabash Valley. It is ex- 

 tremely rare. I have found it in a small open ditch in Wells County, in 

 a low woods in Knox County which was inundated much of the time, and 

 in an open ditch in a woods in the southeast corner of Whitley County. 



N. Y., Ont, and Minn., southw. to Ala., La., and Mo. 



2. Plantago major L. Common Plantain. Map 1899. In moist or dry 

 waste places. Rare in Indiana. It has been reported by many authors 

 but I believe that most of the reports should be transferred to Plantago 

 Rugelii, which without doubt occurs in every county of the state, although 

 our early authors failed to report it. 



I collected an abnormal specimen of Plantago major on a knoll on the 

 south side of the Pennsylvania Railroad about a quarter of a mile east of 

 Winona Lake Station in Kosciusko County. It has five scapes and three of 

 them have a whorl of leaves just below the spike. One spike has three 

 leaves, one has five, and the third has six, the largest 5 cm long, but these 

 are not in a whorl. All of my specimens of this species are more or less 

 pubescent. 



Newf. to B. C, southw. to Fla. and Calif. 



3. Plantago Rugelii Dene. Rugel Plantain. Map 1900. Frequent to 

 common throughout the state in lawns, waste places, fields, and open 

 woodland and along roadsides and railroads. 



