TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Plantago. 215 



V. quinquenervia. Ger. Em. 422. /'. Raii Syn. 314. 



P. longa. Matth. J'algr. v. 1. 437 j: Camer. Epit. 2C3. f. 



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



In meadows and pastures, very common. 



Perennial, Jioie, Julij. 



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. Flowerstalks taller than the leaves, likewise woolly 

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

 smooth, twisted. Spi/cc an inch long, with black imbricated 

 hracteas, and occasionally leafy at the base. Cor. pale. Jnth. 

 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. inaritima. Sea Plantain. 



Leaves linear, channelled, nearly entire. Flowerstalks roiuul, 



longer than the leaves. Spike cylindrical. 

 P.maritima. Lbui.Sp. PL 16o. Mllld. v. 1. 647. FI. Br. 184. En^l 



Bot. V. 3. /. 175. FL GrcEc. v. 2. 37. t. 148. Hook. Scot, 54 



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

 P. marina. Raii Si/n.3\5. Lob. Ic. v. 1. 306./. Ger. Em. 423./. 

 P. an alpina angustifolia. J . B. v. 3. 506 ?. Rail Syn. 315. Not 



Bauhin's plant. 

 P. montana. Hiids. ed. 1. 53. 

 Coronopus. Ger. Em. 425./. 

 Sea Plantain. Petit: 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: 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. Flowerstalks 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 bractcas, 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 Gnrc, Lobel, and one 

 of (ierarde's, represent the haves with a few teeth : but that 



