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72. PLANTAGO. Plantain. 



Linn. Gen. i>7 . Juss. 90. FL Br. \S2. Toiirn.t.4S. Lam. t.S5. 



Br. Pr. 424. GcErtn.t.bl. 

 Coronopus. Tourn. t. 49. 



Nat. Ord. Plantajrijics. Juss. 31. Plantas:inccc. 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. Fllam. 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, receptacle, 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 spikes. 

 Bracteas solitary to each flower. 



1. V. major. Greater Plantain. 



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

 stalks. Flowerstalks round. Spike tapering. Seeds nu- 

 merous. 



P. major. Linn. Sp. PI. 163. fVilld. r. 1. 641. Fl. Br. 182. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 22. t. 1558. Curt. Loud. fuse. 2.t.\\. Hook. Scot. 53. 

 Fl. Dan. ^ 46 1 . Camer. Epit. 26 1 . /. 



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



P. latifolia vulgaris. Raii Sijn. 314. 



P. latifolia. Ger. Em. 4\9.f. 



P. rubea. Brunf. Herb. v. 1 . 25./. 



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



/3. P. latifolia glabra minor. Dill, in Raii Syn. 314. Bauh. Hist. 

 v.3.p.2. 505./ 



y. P. major, paniciila sparsa. Raii Syn. 314. Bauh. Hint. v. 3. 

 p. 2. 503./ 



P. panniculis sparsis. Gcr. Em. 420./. 



•5'. P. rosea sj)icata. Gcr. Em. 420./ 



P. rosea. Bauh. Hisl. v. 3. /;. 2. 503./ 



