PHYTOLACCACE/E. 337 



Plantago major Linn.; F.B.I, iv 705, I I ; Waybread. 

 Perennial by a stout rootstock. Leaves all radical, 

 stalked, oblong or oblong-ovate, very variable in 

 size, from blades of I^ by % inch with stalks M inch, 

 to blades 4 by 3 inches with stalks 8 inches, entire or 

 toothed, three-to live-nerved. Spikes long and slender, 

 I to 8 inches. Flowers scattered or crowded. Bracts 

 variable as long as or shorter or longer than the 1/12- 

 inch sepals. Capsule 1/6 to 1/5 inch, egg-shaped. Seeds 

 small black, attached to the top half. t. 225. 



In waste places and road-sides as a weed. Fyson 12, 1445- 

 Bourne 104, 5098. 



Gen. Dist. In the cooler parts of India, and wild or introduced in many 

 temperate climates. 



In t. n25 : a flower ; b fruit opened, showing the seeds adhering to the 

 top part. \E.r.B.\ 



PHYTOLACCACE/E. 



A family of 20 genera and 60 species, in tropical and 

 temperate climates. 



P H YTOL ACC A. f.b.i. i i8 i. 



American Nightshade, Pokeweed. 



Glabrous trees and shrubs with alternate entire leaves, 

 and racemes of flowers with bract and bracteoles, four 

 or five sepals, no petals, five to twenty-five stamens and 

 five to ten carpels, more or less united, and in fruit 

 fleshy, each with one seed containing a curved embryo. 



Species 2 in tropical and sub-tropical regions. 



Phytolacca dioica Linn. ; v 21, 1 2 ; Pokeweed. A coarse 



shrub. Leaves stalked, ovate acute, drying yellowish, 



varying much in size and a little in shape. Spikes 



drooping, peduncled above the last leaf : pedicels ^ 



inch: bracts 5^ inch. Sepals J^ inch. Stamens many 

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