TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Plantago. 213 

 72. PLANTAGO. Plantain. 



Linn. Gen. 57. Juss. 90. Fl. Br. 182. Tourn. t.48. Lam.t.85. 



Br. Pr. 424. Gccrtn. t.bl. 

 Coronopus. Tourn. t. 49. 



Nat. Ord. Plantagines. Juss. 31. Plantaginece. Br. Pr. 423. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 4 deep, erect, equal or unequal, 

 segments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, tubular, perma- 

 nent, finally membranous; tube swelling; limb in 4 deep, 

 reflexed, ovate, acute segments. Filam. from the tube, 

 alternate with the divisions of the limb, extremely long 

 and prominent, capillary, at first folded inward, then 

 erect, finally flaccid. Anth. oblong, compressed, of 2 

 cells, bursting lengthwise. Germ, inferior, ovate, of 2, 

 rarely 4, cells. Style vertical, capillary, but half the 

 length of the stamens. Stigma hairy, acute, generally 

 undivided. Caps, ovate, thin, bursting all round, of 2 

 cells, rarely 4, with a longitudinal, finally separate, re- 

 ceptacle, bearing the seeds on each side. Seeds either 

 solitary, in pairs, or numerous, oblong, sessile. 



Herbs, generally almost stemless, for the most part peren- 

 nial. Leaves simple, undivided, or cut, or toothed, either 

 flat and ribbed, or semicylindrical and fleshy. Fl. in 

 simple, dense, stalked, mostly radical, cylindrical sjji/ces. 

 Bracteas solitary to each flower. 



1. P. major. Greater Plantain. 



Leaves ovate, smoothish, somewhat toothed, on longish foot- 

 stalks. Flower-stalks round. Spike tapering. Seeds nu- 

 merous. 



P. major. Linn. Sp. PI. 163. mild. v. 1. 641. Fl. Br. 182. Engl. 



Bot. v.12. t. 1558. Curt. Lond. fasc. 2. 1. 11. Hook. Scot. 53. 



Fl. Dan. t.46\. Camer. Epit. 261 . /. 

 P. n. 660. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 293. 

 P. latifolia vulgaris. Rail Syn. 314. 

 P. latifolia. Ger. Em. 419./. 

 P. rubea. Brunf. Herb. v. 1.25. f. 

 P. media. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 435./. 

 (5. P. latifolia glabra minor. Dill, in Eaii Sijn. 3 1 4. Bauh. Hist. 



v.3.p.2.505.f. 

 y. P. major, panicula sparsa. Raii Syn. 314. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 



p. 2. 503. /. 

 P. panniculis sparsis. Ger. Em. 420./. 

 8. P. rosea spicata. Ger. Em. 420./. 

 P, rosea. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. />. 2. 503./. 



