390 PLANTAGINACE^E. Plantago. 



inch in diameter), about twice the length of the calyx, circumscissile much below the 

 middle: ovules 6 to 10: seeds 4 to 9, oval-oblong (about a line long), opaque and dull 

 brown, not reticulated. — Prodr. 1. c. 700, founded on a small and slender 4-seeded form : 

 but the species is often large, with its spike a foot or more long, and seeds more than 

 4. _p. major. Ell. Sk. i. 201 ; Torr. Fl. 183, & Fl. N. Y. ii. 14 ; Darlingt. Fl. Cest. ed. 2, 110. 

 P. Kamtschatica, Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. Gl ; Gray, Man. ed'. 5, 311, not Cham. — Cana- 

 da, Vermont to Illinois, and soutii to Georgia and Texas : probably truly indigenous, as 

 no trace of it is found in the Old World. 



=■ = Leaves mostly narrower, fewer-ribbed, entire or obscurely denticulate, tapering at base into 

 more or less of a petiole : ovules and seeds never over 2 in each cell. 



P. sparsiflora, Michx. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, thinnish (4 to 7 inches long), 

 tapering into a slender petiole, villous-pubescent or glabrous, 3-5-nerved : scape with tlie 

 filiform sparsely-flowered spike 8 to 20 inches long : bracts ovate, shorter than the oval 

 rather rigid coriaceous sepals : corolla-lobes oblong-ovate, acute : capsule oblong, umbili- 

 cate, fully twice the length of the calyx : seeds (also ovules) solitary in each cell, oblong, 

 narrowly shallow-concave on the face. — Fl. i. 94; Decaisne, 1. c. 721. P. Vircjinica, Walt. 

 Car. 85 ? P. iuterrupta, Poir. Diet. v. 375. P. Curoliniuna, Pursh, Fl. i. 98, not Walt. — 

 Low pine barrens, S. Carolina and Georgia. 



P. eriopoda, Torr. Usually a mass of yellowish wool at the crown : leaves oblanceolate 

 to oval-obovate, flesiiy-coriaceous, 3-7-nerved, 3 to 5 inches long and witli short or stout 

 petiole, mostly glabrous : scapes pubescent or glabrate, and with the cylindrical and dense 

 or sometimes sparsely-flowered spike a span to a foot high ; bracts broadly ovate or round- 

 ish, convex, scarious-margined, sometimes pubescent-ciliate : sepals roundisii-obovate, sca- 

 rious except the fuscous or greenish midrib : corolla-lobes broadly oval or ovate : capsule 

 ovoid, slightly exceeding the calyx : ovules a pair in each cell : seeds as many or fewer, 

 oval, flat on the face. — Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 237; Watson, Bot. King, 212. P. attenmita, 

 James in Long Exped. i. 445, not Wall. P. laiiceolata, var. 7 & j8 in part. Hook. Fl. ii. 123. 

 P. virescens, Barneoud, Monogr. 33 ; Decaisne in DC. 1. c. 721. P. Richurdsonil, Decaisne, 

 1. c. 698. — Moist and saline soil, Colorado (James, &c.) to Nevada ( Watson), and N. California 

 {Greene), north to Wyoming, Saskatchewan, and Mackenzie River. 



P. macrocarpa, Cham. & Schl. Leaves thinner, lanceolate, acute, 5-7-nerved, 4 to 

 15 inches long, 4 to 12 lines wide, gradually tapering into long margined petioles : scapes 

 equalling or surpassing the leaves, bearing an oblong dense spike (in fruit 2 inches long) ; 

 the rliachis, &c., tonientose or pubescent : bracts round-ovate or oval, fleshy-herbaceous and 

 scarious-margined : sepals similar but almost wholly scarious : corolla-lobes oval : mature 

 capsule ovoid-oblong (3 or 4 lines long), separating from the base and then fissile, 2-ovuled, 

 1-2-seeded : seeds narrowly oblong, flat or slightly concave on the face. — Linn. i. lOG ; 

 Bong. Veg. Sitk. 42. P. macrocarpa & P. lomjifoUa, Decaisne, 1. c. — Coast of Washington 

 Terr, to Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. 



H— -1— Corolla with tube externally pubescent: capsule 2-4-seeded (in ours seldom incompletely 

 3-4-celled): seeds not excavated nor concave on the face : leaves linear or filiform, fleshy ; ribs 

 usually indistinct or obsolete in the fresh plant : commonly some wool among the bases" of the 

 leaves. (Maritime species.) 

 P. maritima, L. Root perennial : leaves mostly obtuse : spike dense, oblong or cylin- 

 drical : bracts mostly rotund and shorter than the calyx : sepals oval, more or less acutely 

 carinate : corolla-lobes obtuse or hardly acute. — P. juncoides, Lam. 111. i. 342 (Magellan) ; 

 Decaisne in DC. 1. c. 731, partlJ^ P. panel flora, Pursh, Fl. i. 99; a dwarf form, with short 

 and few-flowered spike, from Labrador ; therefore P. olli/anthos, Roem. & Sch. Syst. iii. 122. 

 P. horealis, Lange in Bot. Not. 1873, 120 & Fl. Dan. t. 2707, a similar few-flowered form. — 

 Atlantic coast north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; the abbreviated form. Pacific coast 

 from California to the Aleutian Islands and Behring Straits. (Eu., Asia, Patagonia.) 

 P. decipiens, Barneoud. Root annual (perhaps sometimes biennial) : leaves from fili- 

 form to rather broadly linear and plane, attenuate-acute : spike slender, with flowers eitiicr 

 sparse or dense (with the scape from 3 to 15 inches high) : lower bracts commonly ovate- 

 subulate and equalling or exceeding tlie calj'x : sepals ovate-orbicular : corolla-lobes very 

 acute. — Monogr. 16, poorly characterized on a specimen from Labrador, but marked as 

 an annual. P. juncoides, Decaisne, 1. c. in part. P. maritima, of U. S. authors generally. 

 P. panciflora, Pursh, 1. c. in part. P. maritima, var. juncoides. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 311. — Salt 

 marshes, Atlantic coast from Labrador and New Brunswick to New Jersey ; flowering late. 



