140 XCIV; PLANTAGINEJE. | Plantago. — 
in DC. 5 xiii. i. 701; Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 490; Hook. f. Fl 
Tasm. i. 309 ; p. debilis, Nees in "pL Preiss. i. 491, not of R. Br. 
ge nsland. In the interior, Mitchell a 
ales. Chiefly in the interior Morley’s panh M Cute Darling 
ie Woo lls; Lachlan and Darling ri o the Barrier Ran ictorian and othet 
Expedition; northward to Clarence river yet Mount ‘Mitchell: d Mri New England, 
Victoria. = Phillip, Z. Brown; Wendu Vale, Robertson; near Melbourne, — 
Adamson; thence to the Avoca, Murray y, and Ovens rivers, F. Mueller; Wimmer — 
Pales 1 
Pie eet mple and Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant everywhere — 
n z 
sad 
nia. 
in the cole colony, J. D ie : 
Murra to St. Vincent's and — s Gulfs, F. Mueller and 
others; in the interior to bx Copei s Creek, Whe de Kangar p iniata, Waterhouse. : 
us King George's Sound to Swan river, po mond, n. 224, 393,714, | 
738, Preiss, n. 1968, 1970, Oldfield and others ; prep river, r, Oldfield. a 
The variations of this polymorphous species are so complicated that I have been * 
able to assign them any detinite limits as to characters or to geogr eor oy D mii a 
would appear that no less than ten of the supposed species enumerated by ane i 
should be included in it, the characters derived from supposed duration, from minuti - 
h and hairiness of epals and bracts, and from the breadth and acuteness 
of the corolla-lobes having entirely broken down. The typical P. varia has th lly 
t the ba he leaves copious, the sepals ery obtuse and hispi he 
come centre and extends over " whole range g the species. It would Mee Nees $ 
P. exilis, . Prod. xiii. i. 702, P. runcinata, Dene. 0 
£x > 
P. hispida of most authors, but marei of Brown, has "e Pet hairs or 80- called a 
t the base of the leaves few or none, S sepals broad and obtuse, quite glabrous d 
the rri form and would include P. Mitehelli a nd P. Drummondii, Dene. Lc. 0h 
and also, from the character given, P. Gaudichaudii, Barn. Monogr. Plantag. 15; Dene 
e, 7 2 
onis, A. Cunn.; ee Bhd - 702, and P. sericophylla, Dene. lc. 702 ee | 
kaido on n indifreat N.S. "Wal pecimen s of ici ingham’s, appear to be luxuriant 
: ns of both the above principal forms occur, especially in d 4 
Tasmanian lona, with iq spikes reduced to very few flowers almost c ollected m 
heads, but not so compact as in P. tasmanica and usually with the appeara 
annuals, It is Grobabty to die of these that belongs the P. bellidioides, Dcne. Le. 7 
hac d from a Tasmanian specimen of Gunn's, but which I have not precisely 
Th 
he 
UP his pida, R. Br. Prod. 425, from the seacoast, Fess Dalrymple, is a small ko 
hispid at with the narrow hispid calyxes of the typica al form ‘but with ra a sm 
fallowing rs and d without the long wally hairs at the base of the leaves, “It passes Into 
