528 Morris: North American Plantaginaceae ' 



distinctly herbaceous midrib, apex rounded or bluntly apiculate by 

 the excurrent midrib, less than the width of the bract. Corolla very 

 minute, forming an incompletely closed beak above a hardly dis- 

 cernible throat; its lobes triangular, enrire, acute, 0.5 mm. x 0.25 

 mm. Stamens two, included. Pyxis one third surpassing the 

 calyx or little more; glabrous, ovate— ovoid, truncate-rounded or 

 with the base of the style persistent in the slightly depressed 

 apex, circumscissile just above the lower third, 1.75 mm. x i 

 mm. Seeds 4, coarsely rugose-pitted, dark olive-brown, elliptical- 

 oblong, 1.25 mm. X 0.5 mm. 



Woodland forms intergrade with the following subspecies. 



Type specimen is Nuttall's collection, from " Arkansas," in the 

 herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



One hundred and seventy-four sheets or specimens from Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York (Long Island), 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Co- 

 lumbia, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (?), Illinois, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, 

 Indian Territory, and Texas ; and (introduced) in Washington, 

 Oregon, and California, have been examined, in herbaria as fol- 

 lows : 2, Brooklyn Institute Museum; 28, Columbia University 

 and New York Botanical Garden ; 14, Field Museum of Natural 

 History; 16, Gray Herbarium ; 6, Doctor Edward Lee Greene ; 

 47, Missouri Botanical Garden ; 22, Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia ; 7, Mr. Wilhelm N. Suksdorf; 21, United States 

 National Herbarium; i, University of Nebraska; 6, University of 

 Pennsylvania; and 4, my own herbarium. 



Plantago pusilla Engelmanni nom. nov. 



R pusilla var. major Engelmann, Bot Gaz. 8: 175. 1883. 



major 



753 



A rather large annual, varying in height to 25 cm., about twice 

 the dimensions of P. pusilla when at the same stage of develop- 

 ment, noticeably herbaceous, densely woolly at the base. Root 

 usually one, secondaries about the length of the primary, numerous, 

 filiform, fibrous, the crown densely pubescent or even woolly 

 among the leaf-bases. Leaves basal, erect or strict-ascending, 

 glabrous to cinereous-pubescent, numerous, with petiole distin- 

 guishable from the lanceolate-linear blade, attenuate at both ends, in 

 maturity with ^^w prominent scattered callous teeth which are either 

 straight or falciform, acute except for the callous tip, 1-3-nerved, 



