



!94 TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Plantago. 



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Stalk from 5 to 10 inches high ; cylindrical. Flowering spile 

 shorter than the naked part of the stalk. Leaves mostly 5-ribbed, 

 often toothed, spear-egg-shaped, or quite egg-shaped ; sometimes 

 variegated with pale yellow stripes. 



Lambs Lettuce* Hoary Plantain* Road sides, and pastures, 

 mostly in chalky or marly soil. [The variegated kind at Haw- 

 ford Bridge, near Worcester. St.] P. June — Aug. 



laneeola'ta. P. Leaves spear-shaped : spike nearly egg-shaped^ naked : 



stalk angular. 



E. hot. 50? '-Curt. ii. 15-FI. dan. 437~Black<w. U-Walc- 

 Dod. 107. Z-Lob. obs. l63. l-Ger. em. 422. l-Park. 4#>. 

 \-H. ox. viii. 15. §-Pet. 4. f>- J. B. iii. 505. \-Trag. 

 225. 2-Ger. 341. l-Mattk. 481-Jnders. 



Stalk about a foot high. Root as if bitten oft. Spike 1 inch 

 long, or not so much. Leaves strap-spear-shaped, ribs 5 to 7 % 

 often toothed at the base, but in maritime situations toothed all 

 along the edges. Anthers white. The stalks continue to grow 

 after the flowering is over, and sometimes shoot out to the length 

 of 2 feet or more. 



Ribwort Plantain. Ribgrass. Pastures very comm 

 Var. 2. Leaves narrow, 3-ribbed. (Dr. Stokes.) 



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3-Pet. 4. 7. 



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spike. Mr. Woodward 



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Near Leeds. St. 

 Var. 4. Spike with 2 or 3 heads. Leers. 

 us. ii. llO-J. B. iii. 506. 2-i/. ox. viii. 

 Isle of Thanet. Ray.* 



Mr. Woodw. 



una 



spike and stalk cylindrical. 



* Linnaeus says it is eaten by Horses, Sheep, and Goats, and that Cows 



refuse it; but Haller attributes the richness of the mi lk t ia the famous 



alpine dairies, to this plant and to the Alchemilla vulgaris.— The total 



absence of this plant in marshy lands, is a certain criterion of the wretched 



quality thereof. In proportion as such soils are meliorated by draining' 



This plant will flourish and abound. It is often sown and cultivated tor 



pasturage, but does nc* answer the purpose well without a mixture oj 



clover or other grasses. Sheep will eat it either green or dried, provided 



it be well gotten. Mr. Dickewson.— When it grows detached from other 



plants, as it frequently docs by the sides of foot-paths, I have never seen 



cattle touch it, but they certainly do eat it mixed with other herbage 





