Plantago. 
with the leaves in a basilar rosette, 
entire. 
by a single bract. 
Species 200. Cosmopolitan. 
A. Stemless plants with leaves all basilar, or caules- 
cent with alternate leaves. 
4—8 
I. Capsule with two seeded cells. 
Seeds angled ... 
II, Capsule 3-celled, cells 1-seeded, or rarely 
1-celled, 1—2-seeded. Inner face of the seed 
grooved or boat-shaped. 
a) Corolla and corolla-lobes glabrous. 
1. Perennials or peremnants. 
a) Leaves lanceolate-spathulate. . . 
B) beawes, linear eos sete ie 
2. Annuals. 
a) Leaves tapering to a clasping petiole 
B) Leaves not tapering to a clasping 
petiole. 
+ ‘Bracts' villousys 2. s 
** Bracts glabrous. 
+ Villous-fleecy plants 
++ More or less hirsute plants 
b) Corolla-tube glabrous, lobes hirsute. 
If Hixsute-plant BP 9S . ++ 
2. Silky-canescent. ...' 4. 6. 
IU. Capsule 2-celled, cells sometimes bilocellate. 
Corolla-tube hairy, lobes glabrous. Flowers 
appressed to the axis. 
a) Spikes vate eh ac) RIL Ee Sis 
b) Spikes cylindrical. 
Isebenvest entire th b.)di1.-Teish. as 
_ %. Leaves pinnate-dentate . . eis 
B. Stem leafy, leaves opposite. Corolla glabrous, 
the tube wrinkled transversely. 
I. Leaves linear to filiform. 
a) Pubescent plants . 
b) ‘Glabrouseplantey Mae eka is 
Il. Leaves linear to lanceolate. 
a) Peduneles longer than the leaves. . . 
b) Peduncles as long as or shorter than 
the leaves. 
15. 
905 
Leaves very various, usually 
Flowers inconspicuous, spicate or capitate, each subtended 
. P. maior. 
. P. albicans. 
. P. cylindrica. 
. P. amplexicaulis. 
. P. Bellardii. 
. P. ovata. 
. P. notata. 
. P. Lagopus. 
. P. ciliata. 
. P. erypsioides. 
. P. erassifolia. 
. P. Coronopus. 
. P. ramosa. 
14. 
P. exigua. 
P. stricta. 
