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PLANTAGINACEJE. (PLANTAIN FAMILY.) 
wort.) Hairy or almost smooth ; leaves lanceolate , 3-5-nerved, entire 
or nearly so, tapering to each end, on slender petioles, much shorter 
than the slender angled scapes ; spike ovoid or oblong-cylindrical with 
age (rarely somewhat elongated), very dense, the scale-like bracts 
ovate, tapering to a slender point; seeds 2.— Dry fields among grass, 
common : brought from Europe. May - Aug. — Flower-stalks 1°- 2° 
high. Two of the sepals commonly united into one. 
4. P. marltima, Linn. (Seaside Plantain.) Smooth, or 
minutely pubescent; leaves linear-awl-shaped , rounded on the back, 
channelled inside, very fleshy , entire, sometimes sparingly toothed; 
scapes round ; spikes cylindrical , dense, or the lower flowers scattered; 
bracts ovate, acutish; seeds 2. — Salt marshes along the coast. July. 
* * * Pod 4-seeded: annual. 
5. P. pusilla, Nutt. (Pigmy Plantain.) Minutely pubes¬ 
cent, very small (1-4 inches high); leaves narrowly linear or awl- 
shaped , fiat , tapering to the base, entire, shorter than the slender 
scapes; spike loosely flowered; bracts ovate, acute; stamens short; 
seeds 4. —Dry bare soil, New York to Penn , Illinois, &c. April - 
Aug— Spikes ^'-2' long. 
* * * * Pod 2-seeded : annual or biennial. 
6. P # Virginica, L. (Virginia Plantain.) Woolly with 
soft hoary hairs; leaves oblong or spatulate-laneeolate, 5-nerved, most¬ 
ly obtuse and entire, narrowed into a short margined petiole, much 
shorter than the scapes; spike cylindrical, the flowers dense, or inter¬ 
rupted and scattered below; bracts nearly as long as the calyx ; lobes 
of the corolla in fruit involute and converging into a sort of beak ; seeds 
oval, concave on the inner face. — Sandy fields, Rhode Island to 
Penn. April-Sept.—Scapes 3'-10' high. Anthers exserted in 
some specimens, included and small in others. 
Order 63. PLUMB AGIN AC EiE. (Leadwort Fam.) 
Maritime herbs, chiefly stemless, with regular 5 -merous 
flowers, a plaited calyx, the 5 stamens opposite the separate 
petals or the lobes of the corolla, and the free ovary one - 
celled, with a solitary ovule hanging from a long cord which 
rises from the base of the cell. — The Statice^ or Marsh- 
Rosemary Tribe alone is represented in our region by the 
genus 
1. STATICE, Toum. Sea-Lavender. Marsh-Rosemary. 
Flowers scattered or loosely spiked on the branches of a com¬ 
pound corymb, one-sided, 2 — 3-bracted. Calyx funnel-form, dry 
