TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Plantago. 215 



P. quinquenervia. Ger. Em. 422./. Rail Syn. 314. 



P. longa. Matth. Valgr. v. 1 . 437./. Carrier. Epit. 263./. 



P. minor. Brunf. Herb. v. 1 . 24. / 



In meadows and pastures, very common. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root rather woody. Leaves numerous, erect, deep green, acute, 

 each tapering at the base into a broad, flat, ribbed footstalk, 

 accompanied at its insertion with large tufts of soft, white, 

 woolly fibres. Flower-stalks taller than the leaves, likewise woolly 

 at the base, five-angled, with intermediate furrows, nearly 

 smooth, twisted. Spike an inch long, with black imbricated 

 bracteas, and occasionally leafy at the base. Cor. pale. Anth. 

 large, cream-coloured. The spikes are liable to the very same 

 transformations as in P. major. This species makes a part of 

 most meadow hay, and has been cultivated as a crop, but seems 

 to be now disused. Cattle are said not to eat it willingly, at 

 least by itself. 



4. P. maritima. Sea Plantain. 



Leaves linear, channelled, nearly entire. Flower-stalks 

 round, longer than the leaves. Spike cylindrical. 



P. maritima. Linn.Sp. Pl.165. Willd.v. 1. 647. Fl. Br. 184. Engl. 

 Bot. v. 3. t. 175. FL Grcec. v. 2. 37. t. 148. Hook. Scot. 54. 

 Davies Welsh Botanol. 16. FL Dan. t. 243. 



P. marina. Rau Syn. 315. Lob. Ic. v. 1.306./. Ger. Em. 423./ 



P. an alpina angustifolia. J. B. u.3.506 ?. Raii Syn. 315. Not 

 Bav.hhVs plant. 



P. montana. Huds. ed. 1 . 53. 



Coronopus. Ger. Em. 425. / 



Sea Plantain. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 4./ 9. 



In muddy salt marshes, and about the mouths of large rivers ; as 

 also on the loftiest mountains of Wales and Scotland. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Root long, cylindrical. Herb extremely various in luxuriance. 

 Leaves numerous, all radical, spreading, fleshy, from 4 to 12 

 inches long, linear, acute j channelled above ; convex beneath ; 

 dull green, smooth, or somewhat hairy ; either quite entire, or 

 frequently, in maritime situations, beset with a few distant, ir- 

 regular teeth ; more or less woolly at the base, but neither con- 

 tracted there, nor stalked. Flower-stalks several, taller than the 

 leaves, erect, or ascending, round and even, generally smooth. 

 Spike long and slender, many-flowered, slightly tapering, dense, 

 uninterrupted, with fleshy bluntly keeled bracteas, not longer 

 than the calyx. Stigma undivided, not cloven. I have not seen 

 the ripe capsule. 



Some of the above figures, as those of FL GrcEc, Lobel, and one 

 of Gerarde's, represent the leaves with a few teeth ; but that 



