96 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



PLANTAGINACE^. Plantain Family. 



PLANTAGO, Tourn. Plantain. Ribwort. 



P. major, L. Common Plantain. Wayside Plantain. 



Common, often abundant, throughout the slate. Evidently indigenous in Rock 

 county, Leibcrg, and in the Red river valley (where a form occurs, very probably the 

 var. Asiatica, Decaisne, coarser than ordinary, with scape and spike from i!4 to 2 feet 

 high, the spike being 6 to 12 inches long), Upham. [Sheyenne river, Dakota, Geyer.] 



P. Riigelii, Decaisne.* (P. Karatschatica, Hook.) Plantain. 



Blue Earth county (common), Leiherg; Martin county, Cratty. Perhaps frequent 

 throughout the state, but overlooked on account of its resemblance to the preceding. 

 (Indigenous ; found only In America.) 



[P. cordata. Lam., should be looked for in the east part of the state ; and P. laiKeo- 

 lata, L., may be expected as a weed southeastward.] 



P. eriopoda, Torr.t Plantain. 



Red river valley, Watson, Scott. Northwest, 



P. Patagoiiica, Jacq., var. gnaplialioides, Gray. Plantain. 



Upper Minnesota river. Parry; New Ulm, Juni-, Nicollet county, Alton; Blue Earth 

 county, ieiberf/; common in Watab,Benton county, and frequent, often cemmon, thence 

 southwestward, Upham; plentiful at the Pipestone quarry (showing gradations in size to 

 small matted plants with almost filiform scapes, none of which exceed two or three 

 inches in hight, bearing few-flowered capitate spikes ]i to 14 inch long), Mrs. Bennett, 

 [Devil's lake, Dakota, Geyer.\ South and west, 



PRIMULACE^. Primrose Family. 



PRIMULA, L. Primrose. Cowslip. 



P. farinosa, L. Bird's-eye Primrose. 



North shore of lake Superior, Whitney, Macoun; St. Croix lake, Stillwater, Miss 

 Field. North. 



P. Mistassiuica, Michx. Primrose. 



Lapliam. Abundant on the north shore of lake Superior, Juni, Roberts. North. 



ANDROSACE, Tourn. Androsace. 



A. occiden talis, Parsh. Androsace. 



Blue Earth county (common), also a dwarfed form, about an inch high, with solitary 



*Plantago Rugelii, Decaisne. Leaves paler [than in P. major]", commonly 

 thinner : spikes long and thin, attenuate at the apex : sepals oblong, all as well as 

 the similar bract acutely carinate : capsules erect in the spike, cylindraceous-oblong 

 (somewhat over 2 lines long, one-sixteenth inch in diameter), about twice the length of 

 the calyx, circumscissile much below the middle: ovules 6 to 10; seeds i to 9, oval-oblong 

 (about a line long), opaque and dull brown, not reticulated. Gray's SynojMcal Flora 

 ofK.A. 



+ PLANTAG0 ERIOPODA, Torr. Perennial ; leaves fleshy, broadly lanceolate, 4 to 

 6 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, attenuate at each end, long-petioled, glabrous, entire, 

 5-nerved ; base of the leaves and scape clothed with long dense brown wool ; scape 

 1 foot high, terete, glabrous or pubescent, with a cylindrical spike (3 to 6 inches long) 

 of rather remote perfect flowers ; bracts scarious-margined, cillate ; stamens and styles 

 very long ; bracts broadly ovate, mostly obtuse; capsules 4- to 5-seeded ; seeds not 

 hollowed. Watson's Hep. in King's Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. 



