562 PLANTAGINACE® PLANTAGO 
oblong, dense, 1-2 inches long: bracts round-ovate or oval, flesh y-herbace- 
ous and scarious-margined: sepals similar to the bracts but almost wholly 
scarious: flowers perfect: corolla-lobes oval: stamens 4, exserted: capsule 
ovold-oblong, 3-4 lines long. 1-2-seeded: seeds narrowly oblong, flat or 
slightly concave on theface. Along the coast, Washington to Alaska. 
P. maritima L. Sp. 114. Leaves linear, fleshy, glabrous, very ob- 
scurely nerved, 2-10 inches long, 2-4 lines wide, entire or remotely few- 
toothed, sessile or narrowed into short margined petioles: rootstock rather 
slender, branched, perennial: scapes as long or longer than the teaves, 
more or less pubescent: spikes dense, linear-cylindrical, blunt, 1-5 inches 
long: bracts ovate, acuminate, as long as the perfect flowers: sepals ovate- 
lanceolate to nearly orbicular, green, somewhat keeled: corolla pubescent 
outside, its lobes spreading: capsule ovoid-oblong, obtuse, 2-4-seeded, 
circumscissile at about the middle, nearly twice as long as the calyx: seeds 
pened flat on the face. On rocky banks along the coast, California to 
Alaska. ; 
P. ranceouata L. Sp. 113. More or less pubescent: rootstock short 
with tufts of brown hairs at the base of the leaves, perennial or biennial : 
leaves narrowly lanceolate, mostly erect, entire, acute or acuminate, grad- 
ually narrowed into petioles, 3-5-ribbed, 2-12 inches long, 3-12 lines wide: 
scapes slender, channelled, 6-30 inches high: spikes very dense, at first 
short and ovoid, becoming cylindric, blunt, %-4 inches long in fruit: 
flowers perfect: sepals ovate, with a narrow green midrib and broad scari- 
ous marg ns, the 2 lower ones commonly united: corolla glabrous, its tube 
very short: stamens exserted: capsule oblong, very obtuse, 2-seeded, 
slightly longer than the calyx, circumscissile at about the middle: seeds 
deeply excavated on the face. Common in fields and waste places: intro- 
duced from Europe. : 
P. Purshii R. & S. Syst. iii, 120. P. Patagonica var. gnaphalioides 
Gray. White-woolly or silky pale green annual: leaves ascending, linear, 
acute or acuminate, narrowed into margined petioles, 1-%-nerved, 2-10 
inches long,, entire or with afew small teeth: scapes 2-15 inches high: 
spikes very dense, hoary, cylindrical, obtuse, 1-6 inches long, very woolly: 
bracts rigid, equalling or slightly longer than the perfect flowers, linear- 
subulate: sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious-margined: corolla-lobes broadly 
ovate, spreading: stamens 4, just exserted from the tube or with long cap- 
illary filaments: capsule oblong, obtuse: seeds 2, light brown, oblong, 
convex on the back, deeply concave on the face. On dry plains, Oregon. 
to Brit. Columbia and Illinois. | nid tal 
P. spinulosa Decaisne in DC. Prodr. xiii, 713. P. Patagonica var. 
spinulosa Gray. A light to bright green glabrate to villous annual: leaves 
linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate and involute at the apex callous- 
tipped, entire, narrowed to a margined sheathing petiole in which 3 ribs 
remain free, 3-6 inches long, 1-4 lines wide, 3-5 ribbed: scapes 2-8 inches 
high, pubescent: spikes cylindrical, 2-4 inzhes long, at length somewhat 
interrupted, pubescent: bracts rather rigid-herbaceous, 2 or more times as’ 
long as the perfect flowers, linear-subulate to aristate, acute: calyx-lobes 
pubescent, scarious, with light green midribs or the lower ones nearly 
herbaceous, spatulate-oblong, a line long: corolla-lobes strongly reflexed : 
stamens 4, and with the style just exserted from the tube or a little longer: 
capsule oval, circumscissile at the middle: seeds 2, dark brown, oblong, | 
finely pitted. Oregon to lower California and east to Texas and Dakota. 
P. aristata Michx. Fl..i, 95. P. Patagonica var. aristata Gray. A 
dark green villous to glabrate annual: leaves narrowly to broadly linear, 
acute or acuminate and callous-tipped, entire, narrowed below to margined 
petioles, 3-8 inches long, 1-3 lines wide, 3-5-nerved: scapes stout, 6-10 
inches high, glabrous to pubescent: spikes in glabrate forms when young 
