Plantago viaritiina. 19 r 



Alps for your plant, but to the north, and if Baker clearly 

 identifies the plant (as one collected during the Norden- 

 skiold Expedition) that must be enough." 



And again, in his next letter : — 



"Without seeing specimens, I find it difficult to determine 

 Lange's P. borealis. His description in Fl. Dan. (here 

 follows description) is not your plant. It has very short 

 scapes, not rising above the leaves. This was gathered by 

 Sir W. J. Hooker in Iceland, at Thingwellen, and it is the 

 alpina (?) of my Flora of Iceland {^Journal Lmn. Soc. Botany 

 1870, p. 323] and is very near the niarithna-Jiirsiita (Syme) 

 \_E71g. Bot. t. 1 167]. My final conclusion is that I fear your 

 plant must stand as a mountain form of P. viaritiina at 

 present." 



Mr. Arthur Bennett writes February 8th, 1889 : — 



" Many thanks for the little Plantago. I write at once 

 to say that Kjellman did not call it a var. — (but a form) — 

 P. viaritima (L.) f. pinnila (Kjelln.). — 'Vega' Exped. 

 'Vekuskaplajn Arbeten,' p. 324. Found near Cap Grebeni, 

 Svenska Exped. 1875." 



This form of an abundant plant throughout our 

 country, especially near the sea coast, mainly differs 

 from the type in the shortness of the leaves, and also 

 their not being at all fleshy, the isolated growth of 

 individuals, the leaves forming a rosette round the 

 central rootstock. In the round flower spikes, it resembles 

 P. alpina (L.). Upon examining the various forms of P. 

 maritima with the continental forms of P. Crassifolia 

 (Forster) subulata (L.), serpentina (Vill.), recurvata (L.), 

 carinata (Schrad), alpina (L.), etc., one cannot help being 

 confused with the mass of synonymy and entanglement 

 that has arisen : and though none of them, except perhaps 

 P. alpina — and there is some doubt about this — is Scandi- 

 navian, very likely upon our southern shores some of 

 the afore-mentioned may impinge, and, therefore, I would 



