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In loose soil, old fields, waste places and on sandy prairies, up to 

 an altitude of 2500 m. 



Montana: Helena, 1888, F. D. Kelsey ; Madison Co., 1886, F. 

 Tweedy, i2oy; Spanish Basin, June 28, 1897, Rvdhcrg & Bessey^ 

 4gg3 ; Great Falls, 1891, R. S. Williams; Gallatin Co., Mrs. Alder- 

 son; Deer Lodge, 1892, W. T. S/iazv ; Custer Co., 1892, Mrs. 

 Fight. 



Yellowstone Park: 1883, Marx Comfion. 



Plantago aristata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 95 [111. Fl. 3: 209]; 

 Plantago Patagonica aristata Gray, Man. Ed. 2 : 269 [Syn. Fl. 

 2': 391 ; Man. R. M. 300]. 



On prairies and plains, up to an altitude of 2000 m. 

 Montana: Madison Co., 1886, Tzveedy, 1206. 



* Plantago myosuroides. 



Plantago Bigclovii Wats. King's Exp. 5: 212; not A. Gray; 



Plantago fiisilla Gray, Syn. Fl. 2^: 392, in part; not Nutt. 



A small cinereous-puberulent annual ; leaves narrowly linear, 3-8 

 cm. long and 1-2 mm. wide ; spikes several, 4-6 cm. long, on scapes 

 of nearly the same length; bracts boat-shaped, /. e., strongly cari- 

 nate, especially the lower portion, and scarious-margined ; sepals 

 oval, obtuse and scarious-margined, about 1.5 mm. long; corolla of 

 the fertile flower narrowed and closing over the maturing capsule 

 which is about 3 mm. long, or about twdce the length of the sepals, 

 ellipsoid, finely muriculate under the lens; seeds 2 in each cavity, 

 oblong, flattish, dark brown. 



Nearest related to P. pusilla Nutt., differing in the larger size, 

 larger flowers, the longer capsule which is twice as long as the 

 sepals and circumscissile below the middle, and in the more decidedly 

 carinate bracts. 



Montana: Tzveedy. 



It has also been collected by Geyer on the Upper Missouri. 



Utah: 1869, S. Watson, y^.^ (type). 



Assiniboia: Cypress Hills, 1894, Jo/in Macoun, 5861. 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



Sambucus melanocarpa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 76 [Syn. Fl. i^ : 

 8; Man. R. M. 124]. 



In canons and along streams, up to an altitude of 2500 m. 

 Montana: Mullan Tunnel, 1890, F. D. Kelsey; Granite, 1892, 



