130 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 sheaths 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 bractea, or two, at its 

 base. 



MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. 

 429. LITTORELLA. Shore-weed. 



Li7vi. Mant. 1 60. Juss. 90. Fl. Br. 1 11 . Lam. t. 758. 



Nat. Ord. Plantagines. Juss. 31. ^qq Plantago, v. 1. 213. 



Barr. fl. Cal. of 4 ovate, upright, acute leaves. Cor. of I 

 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. AntJi. erect, heart-shaped, of 2 cells, 

 bursting lengthwise, 



Fert.Jl. Cal. none. Cor. of 1 petal, membranous, perma- 

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

 superior, elliptic-oblong, very small. iS'^'j/Ze thread-shaped, 

 erect,ver3' long. S'/Z^w. simple, acute, ^w^oval, ofonecell, 

 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. PI. v. 4.330. Fl. Br. 



1011. Engl. Bot.v. 7. t. 468. Hook. Scot. 27 1. Land. t. 168. 



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

 Plantago uniflora. Linn. Sp. PL 1 67. Fl. Dan. 1. 1 70. 

 P. n. 655. Hall. Hist. V.]. 292. 



P. palustris, gramineo folio, monanthos, parisiensis. Raii Syn. 316. 

 Gramen junceum, sive Holosteum minimum palustre, capitulis 



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



Pluk. Almag. 180. Phyt. t. 35./. 2. 



