94 PLANTAGO CORONOPUS,, LINN. 



Recorded from Sweden, France, Spain, Mediterranean Region ; 

 reaches South Persia, Canary Islands. 



Sir J.E. Smith in the English Flora places as var.fr of P. Coronopus. 

 Plantago gramineo folio hirsute, minor, capitula rotundo brevi. Dill 

 in Raii Synop, ed., 3, p. 316. This may approach the above variety. 



6. CUPANI, Dene. in. DC., Prod, xiii., 1, p. 732. 



P. Cupani, Guss., Fl. Sic., p. 190. Ic. Fl. Sic., t. 70, fig. 1. 



Leaves rosulate, with narrow rachis and narrow segments, 

 spikes oblong, bracts ovate, rotund acute, shoiter than the calyx. 



Hab. mountain pastures. 



Recorded from Sicily and Morocco. 



This is very different from type P. Coronopus, L., especially if 

 the plants generally referred here from the Atlas mountains are 

 correctly so placed. The root is stout and probably perennial. 



In forma tenuifoha hirsuta, Wirtgen, the leaves are very 

 elongate, with narrow rachis and segments. 



There are besides the above, which are the principal European 

 varieties of this plant, several European forms. 



Dr. Wirtgen in his VIII. Fascicle of critical Rhenish Plants dis- 

 tributes a form of P. Coronopus, which he calls forma bipinnatifida, 

 the leaves being bipinnatifid with narrow rachis and segments, 

 There is a plant in the Kew Herbarium from the cliffs near 

 Freshwater Bay which closely approaches this latter form. 



There are still remaining several well marked extra European 

 varieties of P. Coronopus, of which perhaps it is only necessary to 

 give a brief mention here. 



Var. lomlydna Dene. I.e., has leaves with pinnate segments, and 

 has short, stout peduncles. It comes from Egypt. It is the 

 P. Coronopus, Forskahl, and M. Boissier considered it worthy of 

 specific rank and named it P. crypsoides. Var. Ganariensis, Dene., 

 has linear 3-nerved, subentire, or shortly denticulate leaves, and 

 erect peduncles. It is recorded from Teneriffe. 



Var. Moroccana, Ball, in Journ., Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 637, is a 

 small plant with a rachis sub 3-nerved, long, slender root and spikes 

 J-f in. long. 



