530 Morris : North American Plantaginaceae 



3-12 cm. X 0.75-2.5 mm., entire to toothed, the straight or 

 curved teeth sometimes i cm. long. Peduncles axillary, erect to 

 spreading, terete, slender, glabrous, or often woolly at the base, 

 few to many, 4-15 cm. high. Spikes racemiform, often much and 

 irregularly interrupted, 10-30- or more-flowered. Bracts usually 

 conspicuous, twice surpassing to equaling the calyx in fruit, closely 

 involving the calyx, herbaceous, with scarious margins at the lower 

 half (half as w^ide as the herbaceous center), triangular, ovate, 

 entire, blunt or obtusish at the apex, 2 mm. x 1.5 mm. when 

 mature. Flowers normally perfect. Calyx glabrous, equilateral or 

 slightly inequilateral, its divisions ovate, with wide scarious margins 

 and narrow prominent green midrib, ovate, blunt, about the width 

 of the bract. Corolla minute, with hardly distinguishable throat, 

 its lobes erect over the fruit, triangular, entire, acute, 0.25 mm. 

 X 0.10-0.15 mm. Stamens two, included. Style slender, ex- 

 serted, about i mm. long, at length its base persistent as a distinct 

 tubercle. Pyxis fusiform-ovoid, circumscissile just below the mid- 

 dle, 2.5-3 ^^' X 2 mm. Seeds 10-25 ^^ more, or by abortion 

 fewer, irregular by mutual pressure, blackish brown, oblong, 0.75 

 mm. X 0.35-0.40 mm. 



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

 herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



One hundred and ninety-five sheets or specimens from New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware (?), Maryland, North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, 

 Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and 

 (introduced) in California and Lower California, have been ex- 

 amined, in herbaria as follows: 3, President Ezra Brainerd ; 2, 

 Brooklyn Institute Museum; 38, Columbia University and New 

 York Botanical Garden; 15, Field Museum of Natural History; 

 32, Gray Herbarium; 7, Doctor Edward Lee Greene; 45, Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden ; 22, Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia; i, Mr. Wilhelm N. Suksdorf; 20, United States 

 National Herbarium ; 7, University of Pennsylvania ; and 3, my 

 own herbarium. 



Museum of the Brooklyn Institute 

 OF Arts and Sciences. 



