92 PLANTAGO CORONOPUS, LINN. 



P. coronopifolia, Brotero, Fl., Lusit i., p. 157. 



P. ceratophyUa, Hoff. and Link., FL, Port, i., p. 491, t. 74. 



Root thicker than in the type, probably perennial. Leaves Gin. 

 long, sometimes longer, suberect, hairy, oblanceolate in outline, 

 generally 3-nerved, occasionally 5-nerved, apex, acute, or subacu- 

 minate, segments lanceolate remote, occasionally toothed, acute, or 

 subacuminate. 



Scape longer than the leaves, towards the apex rather more 

 hairy than in the type. Heads of flowers lin. to 3 or 4in. or more 

 long. Bracts acuminate longer than the sepals. Capsule trilocular 

 generally (as described in the original description) 2-seeded, some- 

 times more seeded. 



Hab. Portugal and South West Spain. 



In Great Britain Dorsetshire at Charmouth and near Poole 

 Harbour. 



It seems advisable to bring together the other principal named 

 varieties and forms of P. Coronopus. As far as I am avare 

 only the first has been definitely recorded hitherto for Great 

 Britain. 



The type is a plant with narrow generally uninerved lea\es, 

 toothed or pinnatifid, with usually ascending scapes, equalling or 

 exceeding the leaves ; spikes J-4in. long. Capsule 3-4 celled, 3-4 

 seeded. It is the plant figured in English Botany, ed. 3, tab. MCLX., 

 and Ic. Flor., Dan., t. 272, and judging from the description it is 

 the vulgaris of Grenier and Godron, Flore de France Tom. II,, 

 p. 722. 



1. PYGIVLEA, Lange, Haandbog der danske Flora, (1853). 



A dwarf plant with narrow rachis and narrow segments. Leaves 

 in the specimens before me J-fin. long. Scapes apparently 

 generally ascending slender, usually only just longer than the 

 leaves. Spikes globose 2-4, possibly sometimes more flowered. 



* Recorded from Denmark. 



* I have to record my best thanks to Dr. Lange for kindly sending me 

 specimens of this plant. 



