Plantago. | XCIV. PLANTAGINEJE. 139 
dry, the 2 upper sepals with prominent scarious usually ciliate keels or 
wiugs. Ovary apparently 4-celled with one ovule in each cell, but 
really 2-celled. only, with a spurious dissepiment between the two col- 
lateral ovules reaching to but not cohering with the wall of the cell, 
the capsule often only 1- or 2-seeded by abortion. 
Victoria. Portland, Allitt. 
Tasmania. Roadsides, George Town, Perth, &c., Gunn and others. 
S. Australia. Holdfast Bay, F. Mueller. 
W: Australia. Swan river, Drummond, n. 225. 3 
common in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere in the Old World, 
especially in maritime or in sandy districts, and thence probably introduced into 
là. 
3. P. debilis, 2. Br. Prod.495. Very near P. varia, and errs | 
to F. Mueller only a variety of that species. Stock without any or with 
only a few long woolly hairs between the leaves, the foliage and inflo- 
rescence hirsute or nearly glabrous. Leaves radical, oblong or 
lanceolate, entire or toothed, usually broader and shorter than in P. 
varia. Scapes very slender, from 2 or 3 in. to 1 ft. high, the flowers 
all distant when fully out, and much smaller than in P. varia, forming 
a slender interrupted spike often occupying above half the scape. 
* 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart; Armadilla, 
on. 
N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, 2. Brown, Woolls; New England, C. Stuart; 
Hastings, Clarence, and Macleay rivers, Beckler. 
Victoria. Taralgin Creek and Hobson’s Creek, F. Mueller. 
" : in the 
te t, od. xiii. i. 702, from a single leaf preserved m 
Hookerian herbarium, is probably this species; Cunningham’s original specimen appears 
to have remained in the Hitet die of the Paris Museum 
varia, R. Br. Prod. 424. A perennial often flowering E 
but forming ultimately a thick en 
with the membranous dilated imbricate bases of the leaves enve T 
In long reddish brown woolly or silky hairs sometimes b copious, 
ny. Leav 
g i 
"Ww rarely to ovate-lanceolate, more frequently to linear. Scapes 
an the leaves, bearing in the upper portion a ra 
e from 1 to 3 or 41 
