Plantago. | XCIV. PLANTAGINEJE. 141 
rather dense or loose, 4 to 1 in. fone or f fathi er more. pal rathi sam tes line on 
the opaque centre usually hirsute. es no ile with a pen end exceeding the calyx and 
to 
connecting P. varia with a um ilis. 
en devoted to rin Rubi, Bat sradbiah Ranuneuli, he. might ie " 
several permanent races, of which dried specimens vito "indioslion ol the circum- 
stances of their ates give no dira 
5. P. an ca, Dene. in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 703 ? Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 
i. 303. Stock ae woolly-hairy at the base of the leaves. Leaves 
radical, broadly lanceolate or ovate- — _ So MEE 
broad petioles, villous on both sides like the vil 'cimens 
ger. Spikes dense and n rical thv 
narrower than in P. tasmanica, l to above 1 in. lon , the s very 
edd imbricate in several rows. Bracts and sepals Fits iius or 
rarely with a few marginal ci 
Victoria. Cobra yes F. * hana (rather Mmm Á 
Tasmania. Marshes of fd Pa trick's river, Gunn; South Esk river, C. Stuart. 
r do not feel certain of 
e lowers are smaller and the ipie s more dense than in P. varia, t 
that of P. ta sere and it appears to differ fro pu in the close imbrication of the 
buds before expanding 
E DP. hist a, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ, vi. 276, and Fl. Tasm. 
i. 803. A small alpine Nene Leaves radical, rosulate, oblong or 
som a r 
eiae Ovary 2-celled two collateral ovules in eac ne. it 
DC. Prod. xiii ed P. glabrata, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 
°76, Dene. Le. 70 03 ; P. leptostachys, Hook. f. Lc. (P. Daltoni, Dene. l.c.) 
ii ia. Munyong mountains, sources of the Yarra, Baw-baw cpm F. 
3 Tasmania. Abundanti = wet marshy places on ed mountains at an elevation of 
Eh 400 ft, J. D. Hoo r, Gunn, Jlilligan and o 
— Hook. f. FL Tus m. i. 303, from the ira ai Tasmania, Archer, 
"otii the summit of Moun t Wellington, d Mueller, seems to be a small state of the 
with more obovato lea F. Mueller Soke that P. tasmanica itself i 
of P. v 
484. A small 
7. P. Brownii, . Par 
plant, with a sesh d TE e es ongst ‘the leaves or quite 
glabrous, Leaves radical, rosulate, thick, somewhat fleshy, and of a 
"T an alpine f form 
