Plantago. 909 
Local name: loqmet-en-na’ge (Forsk.); geneyme (Schweinfurth) ; 
djeneyme (Forsk., Schweinfurth). : 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Spain, Arabia Petraea 
and Syria. 
1260. (7.) Plantago notata Lag. Gen. and Spec. nov. (1816), 
p. 7. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 885. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p.663 no. 267. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Kg., p. 124 
no. 852. — Plantago syrtica Viv. Flor. Libyc., p.7 tab. 3. — Plantago 
Olivieri Decsne. in Barneoud Mon. Plant., p. 37. — Plantago praecox 
©. A. Mey. Enum. Plant. p.115. — An annual plant, 3—8 cm high, 
or rarely sometimes somewhat more. More or less hirsute, stemless, 
pale green. Leaves sessile, lanceolate to linear, 3—5-nerved, almost 
entire or furnished on either side with distant, linear, acuminate 
lobes and lobules, usually with a tuft of hairs at the base. Scapes 
declined, hardly as long as the leaves; spikes ovate to cylindrical, 
1—3 em long; bracts ovate-orbicular, fleecy at the back, herbaceous 
at the midrib, otherwise scarious, as long as the calyx; calyx fleecy 
at the base, lobes glabrescent, altogether scarious, ovate, obtuse; 
corolla-lobes buff-coloured, ovate-orbicular, mucronulate or muticous. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Kast. 
Local name: geneyme (Muschler). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Western 
Marmarica and Southern Spain. 
1261. (8.) Plantago Lagopus L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 165. 
-— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 886. — Rehbch. Ic. XVI, tab. 82 fig. IV—V. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p. 124 no. 854, — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 771. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 269. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 803 no. 208, — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 663 no. 262. — Plan- 
tago lagopoides Viv. Flor. Libye, p. 7 not of Desf. — Plantago 
eryostachya Ten. Flor. Nap., p. 13. — Plantago fornicata C. Koch in 
Linnaea XXI, p.713. — Plantago glauca C. A. Mey. Enum. Plant., 
p. 115. — An annual plant, 30—60 cm high, rarely sometimes 
somewhat more. Stemless, neck hirsute. Leaves glabrescent to 
hirsute, lanceolate to oblanceolate, tapering to a petiole, 3—5-nerved, 
often 20 cm long, entire or obsoletely denticulate. Scapes angled- 
suleate, 1—4-times as long as the leaves; spikes ovate to cylindrical, 
1,5—7 cm long, dense; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious 
except at the green midrib, villous above; calyx-lobes villous at the 
tip, the lateral one keeled; corolla-lobes ovate, acute or acuminate, 
more or less hairy along the nerve. — Flow. March to April. 
