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flower in the beginning of June. The other flat-leaved, with 

 flat-ribbed leaves very sparingly toothed; stalk about five 

 inches high, and cylindrical : observed near the Bristol Chan- 

 nel, and near Yarmouth in Norfolk. The Sea Plantain may 

 be readily distinguished by its very fleshy and smooth leaves, 

 channelled above, and concave below, with a tuft of wool 

 at their base, and the spike, however short, always cylindri- 

 cal. it is common on sea-coasts, and in the salt-marshes of 

 Europe, Barbary, and North America, flowering rather late 

 in summer. 



23. Plantago Subulata ; Aid-leafed Plantain. Leaves 

 awl-shaped, three-sided, striated, rugged ; scape round. 

 Native of the south of Europe, especially on the sandy 

 shores of the Mediterranean, growing in thick tufts ; also 

 about Tlemsen in Barbary. 



24. Plantago Gracilis ; Slender-spiked Plantain. Leaves 

 lanceolate, loothletted, bluntish; scape round, not striated ; 

 spikes close, very long. Native of Barbary. 



25. Plantago Recurvata ; Recurved-leaved Plantain. 

 Leaves linear, channelled, recurved, naked ; plant stemless. 

 Annual. Native of the southern parts of Europe, and of the 

 Levant. 



26. Plantago Macrorhiza ; Thick-rooted Plantain. Leaves 

 spathulate, gash-toothed ; teeth imbricate, mucronate ; scape 

 round, hairy. Root thick, twisted, somewhat woody ; spike 

 very close, villose; bractes awl-shaped, a little longer than 

 the flower, setaceous at the top ; corolla rufescent, with 

 small ovate-acute segments. Native of Sicily and Barbary; 

 found in the plains of Mazoule, .and on the way-sides and 

 rocky coasts of Tunis. 



27. Plantago Serraria ; Saw -leaved Plantain. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, five-nerved, tooth-serrate ; scape round. This hand- 

 some species grows with some varieties in moist shady places. 

 Native of Silesia, Apulia, and Barbary. 



28. Plantago Coronopus; Buck's- horn Plantain. Leaves 

 linear, toothed; scape round. Root annual; spike cylindri- 

 cal, from an inch or an inch and half to two inches in length ; 

 in sandy ground few-flowered, and so short as to be almost 

 headless. -Native of most parts of Europe, Barbary, &c. in 

 sandy and gravelly soils, and on the sea-coast ; flowering all 

 the summer. 



29. Plantago Loeflingii ; Spanish Plantain. Leaves linear, 

 somewhat toothed; scape round ; spike ovate; bractes keeled, 

 membranaceous. This differs from the preceding, in being 

 smaller and earlier, in having an ovate spike, with the 

 flowers more imbricate ; the bractes smooth and boat-shaped, 

 whereas in that they are awl-shaped, very narrow, and pubes- 

 cent. It is an annual plant; native of Spain, &c. on hills 

 and the borders of fields. 



30. Piantago Carnosa; Fleshy New Holland Plantain. 

 Very smooth : leaves lanceolate, deeply toothed, somewhat 

 fleshy ; naked, as well as the flower-stalk, at their base ; 

 flowers from one to three. Found on Van Diemen. 



31. Plantago Hispida; Hispid New Holland Plantain. 

 Hoary and hairy : leaves linear-lanceolate, toothed; beard- 

 less, as well as the flower-stalks, at their base ; spike of 

 many imbricated flowers. Native of the south coast of New 

 Holland. 



32. Plantago Amplexicanlis. Stem erect or simple; leaves 

 lanceolate, somewhat fleshy, quite entire, embracing ; heads 

 subovate; peduncles in the heads of the axils of the leaves. 



I It exactly resembles the eighth species. Annual. Native of 

 Spain. 

 33. Plantago Psyllium; Clammy Plantain, or Fleaivort. 

 Stem branched, herbaceous ; leaves somewhat toothed, re- 

 curved ; heads leafless. Root slender, annual, fusiform ; 



corollas sharply four-cleft, of a whitish bay colour ; peduncles 

 axillary, villose, rigid. Native of the south of Europe, Bar- 

 bary, and the Canaries. 



34. Plantago Squarrosa ; Leafy-spiked Plantain. Herba- 

 ceous :_ stems branched, diffused, decumbent; leaves linear, 

 quite entire; heads squarrose. From a white annual root 

 proceeds a weak stem, incurvated at the base, and from 

 thence, soon after its origin, oppositely branched, round, 

 villose, and half a foot high ; sometimes it grows extremely 

 branchy. It flowers in August and September. Native of 

 Egypt. 



35. Plantago Indica; Indian Plantain. Stem branched, 

 herbaceous; leaves quite entire, reflex; heads leafy. It 

 flowers in July and August. Native of Egypt, and of many 

 parts of India. 



36. Plantago Pumila; Dwarf Plantain. Stem branched, 

 herbaceous ; leaves quite entire, fleshy ; branches even. Root 

 small, growing more and more slender as it descends, and 

 fibrillose at the edge. It is an annual, tender, and weak 

 plant, so much like the preceding species, that at first sight 

 it might pass for a small variety of it. Peduncles solitary, 

 filiform, hirsute, terminal, and axillary, rather shorter than 

 the leaves, spreading. Native place unknown. 



37. Plantago Cynops; Shrubby Plantain. Stem branched, 

 suffruticose ; leaves quite entire, filiform, strict ; heads some- 

 what leafy; peduncles axillary, the length of the leaves. It 

 flowers from May to August. Native of the south of Europe, 

 Barbary, and Siberia. 



38. Plantago Afra ; Barbary Plantain. Stem branched, 

 shrubby; leaves lanceolate; heads leafless; spikes several, 

 at the ends of the branches. Native of Sicily and Barbary, 

 in the kingdom of Tunis, along the coast of the island of 

 Talarque. 



39. Plantago Parviflora; Small-Jlowered Plantain. Leaves 

 opposite, linear, ciliate ; peduncles shorter than the leaf; 

 heads round ; bractes pressed close, equalling the calix. Root 

 long, slender, twisted, descending, putting out here and 

 there capillary fibres; stems herbaceous, several from one 

 tuft, slender, pubescent. It is an annual plant, native of 

 Barbary, in the great desert. 



40. Plantago Data. Leaves ovate, cordate, very wide, 

 subdentate, glabrous ; spikes very long ; flowers subimbri- 

 cate, lower ones scattered ; bractes ovate, acute. Grows 

 on the river sides in Canada, Kentucky, Tennessee, ;md other 

 western parts. 



41. Plantago Caroliniana. Plant glabrous on both sides ; 

 leaves lanceolate, very entire, long; flowers remote; stem 

 cylindrical. Grows in sandy grassy woods, from Virginia to 

 Carolina. 



42. Plantago Interrupta. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very 

 entire; spike long, slender, interrupted; flowers glabrous. 

 Grows in shady woods, from Virginia to Carolina. 



43. Plantago PauciHora. Leaves linear-lanceolate, very 

 entire, slightly glabrous ; scape cylindrical, shorter than the 

 leaves ; spike with few flowers, interrupted ; bractes ovate, 

 acute, glabrous. Grows on the sea-coast of New England 

 and New Jersey. 



44. Plantago Aristata. Leaves subsetaceous-linear ; spike 

 oblong-cylindrical ; bractes subulate-aristate, longer than the 

 flower. Grows in the natural meadows of Illinois. 



Plantago Aquatica. See Alisma Plantago. 

 Plantain. See Plantago. 

 Plantain Tree. See Musa. 

 Plantain, Water. See Alisma. 

 Plantain, Wild. See Heliconia. 

 Plantations. See Woods. 



