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PHRYMACEAE. 



A monotypic genus. 



1. PHRYMA L. 



[Name unexplained.] 



1. Phryma Leptostachya L. Lop- 

 seed. (Fig. 387.) Puberulent; stem 

 somewliat 4-sided, sometimes constricted 

 above the nodes, branched above, the 

 branches slender, elongated, divergent. 

 Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 coarsely dentate, 2-6' long, the lower 

 petioled, the upper often nearly sessile; 

 spikes very narrow, 2'-6' long; flowers 

 about 3" long, mostly opposite, distant, 

 borne on very short minutely 2-brac- 

 teolate pedicels, at first erect, soon 

 spreading, the calyx, after flowering, 

 abruptly reflexed against the axis of 

 the spike. 



Collected in Bermuda only by Lefroy 

 and by Moseley. Introduced. Native of 

 eastern North America and eastern Asia. 

 I have examined a specimen. Lefroy 

 records this species as a weed of American 

 origin. Recent collectors have been unable to find it in Bermuda, but there appears 

 to be no doubt that it formerly existed here, probably only as a waif, however. 



Order 6. PL ANT AGIN ALES. 



Only the following f amilj^ : 



Family 1. PLANTAGINACEAE Lindl. 



Plantain Family. 



Herbs, with basal, or, in the caulescent species, opposite or alternate 

 leaves, and small perfect polygamous or monoecious flowers, bracteolate 

 in spikes or beads, or rarely solitary. Calyx 4-parted, inferior, peristent, 

 the segments imbricated. Corolla hypogynous, scarious or membranous, 

 mostly marcescent, 4-lobed. Stamens 4 or 2 (only 1 in an Andean genus), 

 inserted on the tube or throat of the corolla; filaments filiform, exserted 

 or included; anthers versatile, 2-celled, the sacs logitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary sessile, superior, 1-2-celled, or falsely 3-4-celled. Style filiform, 

 simple, mostly longitudinally stigmatic. Ovules 1-several in each cavity of 

 the ovary, peltate, amphitropous. Fruit a pyxis, eircumscissile at or below 

 the middle, or an indehiscent nutlet. Seeds 1-several in each cavity of the 

 fruit; endosperm fleshy; cotyledons narrow; radicle short, mostly straight. 

 Three genera and over 225 species, of wide distribution. 



1. PLANTAGO L. 



Leafy-stemmed, short-stemmed or acaulescent herbs, with opposite, alter- 

 nate or basal leaves, bearing axillary or terminal spikes or heads of small 



