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Head, and Dr. Walker Arnott records it from near the House of Skail ; 

 both these stations are on the Mainland of Orkney. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Sunnner, Autumn. 



Almost as variable a plant as P. lanceolata. Leaves varying from 

 1 inch to 1 foot or more long, and the scapes from 2 to 18 inches; 

 the width of the leaves is also very variable, sometimes the breadth 

 is the same throughout, sometimes greater near the apex, and then 

 again diminishing to the apex; the upper side is usually channeled, 

 rarely flat ; the underside is more or less keeled. Bracts green on 

 the back, with white scarious margins. Stamens mvich exserted; 

 anthers pale yellow. Capsule ovate-conical, longer than the calyx. 

 Seeds broAvn, minute, oblong, ovoid, flat on the face, with a short 

 depression, not a furrow, and with a narroAV white membranous wing 

 at each end. 



I cannot see how the mountain plant can be distinguislied from that 

 growing on the shore even as a variety. The leaves are certainly as 

 much channeled in those I have seen, and the rootstock not more 

 woody than in the coast plant. Neither can I perceive any difference 

 in the bracts or capsule. All these points are liable to variation in 

 the coast plant: the number of veins in the leaves, and their being 

 equidistant or not, is also a verj^ variable character. 



The var. 7 is singular from being densely hairy. 



Sea Plantain. 



.Frencli, Plantain maritime. German, Meerstrands-Werjerich. 



This species of plantain is so relisbed by sheep as food, and is considered so good 

 for them, that in North Wales, where it is cultivated, it is called " Sheep's herb," and 

 the ^Yelsh have two names for it, signifying " the sheep's favourite morsel," and " the 

 suet [)roducing." 



SPECIES v.— PL ANT AGO CORONOPUS. Linn. 



Plate MCLX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVH. Tab. MCXXX. Figs. 5 to 8. 

 Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No 840. 



Leaves all radical, without distinct petioles, sti'apshaped or linear, 

 1-ribbed, fleshy, generally furnished towards the apex Avith strap- 

 shaped acuminate ascending lobes, so as to become pinnatifid, rarely 

 destitute of lobes, or with merely a few projecting teeth ; lobes entire, 

 or again pinnatifid. Scape not furrowed, usually exceeding the leaves, 

 the flowerless part generally about as long as the leaves. Bracts 

 roundish ovate, abruptly acuminated into long lanceolate subulate 

 points, longer than the calyx, not hooded at the apex. Sepals slightly 

 hairy on the back, the 2 next the rachis keeled, the keel raised into a 



