216 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Centunculus. 



circumstance is merely incidental, and does not mark even n 

 distinct variety. Yet such specimens were mistaken by Hudson 

 for P. Lop/lmgii, L'mn. Sp. PL 166, owing to the figure of Peti- 

 ver, above quoted, being erroneously cited by Linnaeus. On the 

 other hand, Ray himself took mountain specimens of our P. ma- 

 ritima for an exotic species of Bauhin, the Plantain noirdtre, 

 (P. nigricans) of Reynier's herbarium ; which Haller confounds 

 with lanceolata, and which others have referred as inaccurately 

 to alpina. Dillenius, between brackets, in the Synopsis, corrects 

 Ray's mistake. 

 Mr. Davies celebrates P. maritima, as a favourite food of sheep. 



5.V.Coronopus. Buck's-horn Plantain. Star of the 

 Earth. 



Leaves in many pinnate linear segments. Flower-stalks 

 round. 



P. Coronopus. Lbm. Sp. PL 166. Willd. v. 1. 648. Fl. Br. 185. 



Engl. Bot. V. 13. t. 892. Hook. Scot. 54. Fl. Dan. t. 2/2. 

 P. n. 658. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 293 ; excluding the reference to Petiver. 

 P. foliis laciniatis, Coronopus dicta. Raii Syn.3\5. 

 Coronopus. Matth. Vcdgr. v. 1. 448./. Camer. Epit. 276. f. 

 Cornu cervinum. Ger. Em. 427./. Lob. Ic. v. 1. 437./ 

 Buck's-horn Plantain. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 4./ 10. 

 jS. Plantago gramineo folio hirsuto, minor, capitulo rotundo brevi. 



Dill, in Raii Syn. 316. 



On dry sandy or gravelly ground,' frequent ; often near the sea. 



Annual. June- — August. 



Root tapering. Leaves numerous, spread flat on the ground, pale, 

 hairy, pinnatifid and cut, with pointed segments, various in 

 breadth ; they are scarcely ever so starved as to be undivided, 

 answering to the var. /3. Spikes numerous, dense, cylindrical, 

 varying greatly in length, on spreading hairy stalks. Anthers 

 tipped with a membrane. Caps, of 4 cells, with a solitary seed 

 in each. 



73. CENTUNCULUS. Chaff-weed. 



Linn. Gen. 58. Juss. 95. Fl. Br. 1 85. Dill. Nov. Gen. 111. ^.5. 

 Br. Pr. 427. Lam. t. 83. Gcertn. t. 50. 



Nat. Ord. Rotacece. Linn. 20. Lysimachicc. Juss. 34. 



Cal, inferior, in 4' deep, lanceolate, acute, spreading seg- 

 ments, permanent. Cm\ shorter than the calyx, mono- 

 petalous, tubular, v/ithering; tube almost globular; limb 

 in 4 ovate, flat segments. Filain. short, equal, smooth, in 

 the mouth of the tube. Anth. roimdish, of 2 cells. Germ. 

 globose, in the tube of the cor. Style cylindrical, erect, 



