‘PLANTAGO PLANTAGINACE 563 
triangular, in villous forms top-shaped, cylindrical, 2-5 inches long: bracts 
aristate to foliaceous, often 10 times as long as the flowers, linear-subulate 
to linear, acute: flowers perfect : cal) x-lobes villous to glabrate herbaceous, 
spatulate-oblong: corolla-lobes spreading, round-ovate ‘stamens 4, barely 
exserted from the tube: capsule oblong, obtuse, circumscissile at about the 
middle: seeds 2, brown, oblong, finely pitted. In fields and plains, Ore- 
gon to the Eastern and Southern States. 
P. tetrantha E. L. Morris Bul). Torr. Bot. Club xxvii 119, A low 
green and purplish acaulescent glabrous to pubescent or villous annual: 
leaves linear, entire, 2-3 inches long, about a line wide, truncately callous- 
tipped, sessile and with a somewhat clasping base scapes 4-6 inches high : 
spikes oblong, 6-12 lines long, rather few-flowered: bracts scarious, with 
rigid callous-tipped apex, 44 as long as the calyx: flowers perfect: calyx 
pubescent, the ovate or oblong obtuse lobes with or without scarious mar- 
gins, 1-2 lines long: corolla-lobes rounded-ovate, obtuse, about 2 lines long, 
white with dark brown base, spreading or somewhat reflexed: stamens 4, 
long-exserted : capsule ovoid, 2 lines long, 2-seeded, circumscissile much 
below the middle: seeds dark brown, deeply channelled on the face. On 
dry hillsides near Grant’s Pass, Oregon to California. 
P. Bigelovii Gray Pacif. R. Rep. iv, 217. Mostly glabrous and green, 
annual: leaves linear, 144-4 inches long, rather fleshy obtuse, entire: 
scapes 4-6 inches high: spikes oblong or linear, densely few to many- 
flowered, about an inch long: bracts carinate, about an inch long: flowers 
perfect, calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, about equalling the bracts: corolla-lobes 
ovate, remaining open: stamens 2, slightly exserted: capsule ovoid-oblong, 
one half longer than the calyx, 4-seeded: seeds oblong, not hollowed on 
the face. In brackish marshes along the coast, San Francisco Bay Cali- 
fornia to Vancouver Island. 
P. elongata Pursh Fl. 729. P. pusilla Nutt. Somewhat cinereous- 
puberulent annual: leaves linear-spatulate, 1-2 inches long, entire: scapes 
1-6inches high : spikes 3-18 lines long, loosely flowered: flowers imperfectly 
dicecious or polygamous: bracts ovate, keeled, about a line long: sepals 
gblong, obtuse, about equalling the bracts, with broad scarious margins: 
orolla-lobes triangular-ovate, acute, becoming erect and closed over the 
capsule: stamens 2: capsule short-ovoid, a little longer than the calyx, 
circumscissile below the middle, 4-seeded: seeds elongated-oblong, dark 
brown. In wet places, Oregon to the Eastern States. 
Drvyiston III. APETALA, 
Floral envelopes consisting of a calyx only which is often 
petal-like or wholly wanting. Very rarely some petals present. 
SynopricAL Key To THE APETALOUS ORDERS 
A. Flowers not in aments. 
* Ovary superior, 1-celled and mostly 1-ovuled, or earpels distinct 
if more than one. 
74 Nyetaginacewe Herbs with simple opposite leaves without stipules: 
