138 XCIV. PLANTAGINES. | Plantago. 
the Antarctic islands, and possibly to the extratropical sos one of South America; the — 
others, as far as hitherto ascertained, are all endemic, but the iscrimination of so 80 me 
ave been shown by ray to be dimorphic or subsexual and not specific, and t 
remains often dap to be relied u upon but the shape of the leaves, the density of infi 
rescence, the size of the flowers and similar eminently variable differences. 
ges ee n id 1 ovule in each "is Flowers in very dense 
ly oblong spikes or heads . 1. P. lanceolata. 
Ovary a apparently 4-celled, with 1 ovule in cach cell (2- celled, with 
m each cell se parated by sp aree pane ents). 
csi atia appressed in narrow cy Jindric spi 2. P. coronopus. 
Ovary 2- celled, with 2 ovules in each cell without Aris disse- 
ments 
Spikes very slender, interrupted. Flowers — Leaves — 
rather broad. Calyx not exceeding 3 li 3. P. debilis. 
Spi es rigid. not very. dos SPON 1 in. Qm (excepting de paupe- 
ated specimens with few S Leaves usually narrow. 
lines lon . P. varia. 
Spikes dense, cylindrical, toli ong, the buds closely imbri- f 
ves rather broad, villous ou both si 5. P. antaretiea. 
Spikes dense, ovoid-oblong or cylindrical, i 2 in long. 
dies -— LM and rather thick. Flowers pba 
olla-l 6. P. tasmanica. 
Ovary cele, wh th 2 supe rpose ed pairs ‘of ovules in each cell. 
warf alpine plants with thick leaves, the flowers in heads of 
2 to 6 or soli a 
aves 1} in. v long, rosulate on a short thick sto i" 7. P. Browni. 
Leaves not above 4 in. long, the fresh ones rosulat the ends 
of the slender branches of a Pug tufted I stock Seen with 
the remains of old leaves Ab ees Sa 8. P. Gunni. 
Besides the above, P. major. ore TRES "d DO. Pr 694, a common 
od. A 
European weed, with broadly ovato xd eeu long a oat pl tig end th e ovary — 
celled, with usually more than 2 superposed pairs of ovules in each cell, has est — 
biiched itself between Badge iter and How Norfolk in "Pásltindi (Herb. F. F. Mueller), 
. P. lanceolata, Linn.; Dene. in DC. Prod. xii. i. 714. S 
usually more or less woolly- ór ier iei Leaves i i lanceolate 3 
Very common in Europe on temperate Asia and now established in many parts 4 
Feet ia and "Tasmania. 2 
iophylla, Dene. Lc. 715. Leaves and sometimes the inflorescence more 0 E: 
a tena covered with long silky-woolly hairs. and, ; 
ede nne arra and Forest Creek, F, Mueller ; heath ground near Portland, - 
relay 
2. P. coronopus, Linn. ; Dene. i cad Prod. xiii. i. 732. Plant 
or less hirsute. Leaves presion line i 
