ISO MONOECIA-^TETRANDRIA. Littorella. 



striated, from 3 to 5 inches high ; angular, and rough-edged, at 

 the top. Leaves several, radical, spreading or recurved, linear, 

 channelled, acute, rough-edged, shorter than the stem ; their 

 longish sheaihs closely embracing its base, each crowned with 

 a short membranous stipula. Catkins 4 or 5, alternate, brown, 

 crowded into an ovate, upright spike, not an inch long, having 

 a short, sheathing, brown^ membranous hractea, or two, at its 

 base. 



MONO EC I A TETRANDRIA. 

 429. LITTORELLA. Shore-weed. 



Linn. Mant. 160. Juss. 90. Fl. Br. 1011. Lam. t. 7oS. 



Kat. Ord. Plajitagines. Juss. 31. See Plantago, v. 1. 213. 



Barr.Ji. Cat. of 4 ovate, upright, acute leaves. Cor. of 1 

 petal, tubular, permanent; tube the length of the ca- 

 lyx, rather tumid; limb in 4 deep, equal, ovate, acute, 

 moderately spreading segments, finally membranous. 

 Filam. " from the bottom of the tube," {Hooker), capil- 

 lary, very long, at first doubled inward, then erect, equal, 

 finally flaccid. Anth. erect, heart-shaped, of 2 cells, 

 bursting lengthwise. 



Tert.Ji. Col. none. Cor. of 1 petal, membranous, perma- 

 nent, in 3 or 4 deep, unequal, acute segments. Germ. 

 superior, elliptic-oblong, very small. /S"/?//^ thread-shaped, 

 erect, very long. Stigm. simple, acute. Nut oval, of 1 cell, 

 not bursting. Seed solitary. 



Herbaceous, with the habit of some species of Plantago, 

 Only one species known. 



1. L. lacustris. Plantain Shore-weed. 



L. lacustris. Linn. Mant. 295. Willd.Sp. PL v. 4. 330. Fl. Br. 



1011. EngLBot.v.7.t.468. Hook. Scot. 2?]. Lond.t.iGS. 



Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 14. 14. 

 Plantago uniflora. Li?in. Sp. PI. 1 67. FL Dan. 1. 1 70. 

 P. n.GoS. HaU. Hist V. 1.292. 



P. palustris, gramineo folio, monanthos, parisiensis. RaiiSyn.3\6. 

 Gramen junceum, sive Holosteum minimum palustre, capitulis 



longissimis filamentis donatis. Moris, v. 3. 230. sect. 8. t.9»f. 30. 



Pluk. Almag. 180. Phyt. t. 3b. f. 2. 



