520 Morris : North American Plantaginaceae 



the Shienne and others, all of whom he represents as bands of the 

 Naudowessie nation." C. A. Geyer collected his specimens {no. 

 2jg) in ''arid saline plains valley of Shian River near its mouth 

 (upper Missouri)/' now the Cheyenne River, which empties into the 

 Missouri about 35 miles, air hne, northwest of Pierre, South 



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Dakota. One of Hayden's specimens of Plantago elongata bears 

 the following label : 



•'FLORA NEBRASKANA 



Plantago piisilla Nuttall 



Semminibus 4 maximis 

 High Prairies, Ft. Union. 

 Dr. F. V. Hayden, Leg. ^ 85 3-4 



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A map of Nebraska and Dakota, etc., by Maj. John Warren, Mch. 

 '67, accompanying Final (4th) Report of U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey of Nebraska, etc. by F. V, Hayden, Washington, 1872, con- 

 tains location of Ft, Union, Long. 104^ west, Lat. 48° north, on 

 the north bank of the Missouri River, about five miles above the 

 mouth of the Yellowstone River. This location is given on the 

 map of 1870. There is no modern use of this name for this loca- 

 tion within the information of present day atlases. Pound & 

 Clements, in their '' Phytogeography of Nebraska," indicate the 

 limited habitat of the species, when they say of *' . . . Xerophytes 

 of high prairies and sand hills, ... P. elongata, which is confined 

 almost wholly to alkaline situations, seems to exhibit a tendency 

 to become a halophyte." 



The limiting of this species accomplishes two fortunate things: 

 It recognizes the applicability of Pursh's name, because of the 

 elongated (more or less interrupted) spikes, and long carinate 

 bracts ; second, the retention of the well-known and long-used 

 name published by Nuttall for the species common in the lower 

 Mississippi Valley and its tributaries, and eastward along the 

 Ohio, the Tennessee, the Gulf Coast, and up the Atlantic sea- 

 board to Massachusetts, 



Plantago piisilla Nuttall has been well known to all collectors 

 east of the Mississippi and south pf the Great Lakes. The name 

 had become almost a "household word" among botanists. This 

 name was retired because of the priority of Pursh's name, during 

 the latter part of the now long period in which the species were 



