38 TETRANDRIA MONOGYN1A. 



Hob. Meadows, pastures, and road-sides. June, July. 7/ 



The seeds are eaten by small birds, and are frequently given 

 to those kept in cages. An important plant in the phar- 

 macopoeia of the village doctress, 



- well skill'd 



In every virtuous plant, and healing herb, 



That spreads her verdant leaf to the morning ray." 



3. P. media, leaves ovate, downy, with very short footstalks ; 

 llowerstalks round ; spike cylindrical, thick, and rather short ; 

 seeds solitary. Hoary Plantain. 



Hal. Dry pastures common. June-Aug. If. 



3. P. lanceolata, leaves lanceolate, entire, tapering at each end, 

 Avooly at the base ; flower-stalks angular ; spike ovate. Ribwort 

 Plantain. 



Hab. Meadows and pastures. June, July. 2/ 



The " Wabret-leaf" of Teviotdale. See LEYDEN'S Scenes 

 of Infancy. The Rib-grass of the farmer, and cultivated 

 to a considerable extent on light moorish land. We have 

 a specimen in which the stalk bears several spikes, some 

 sessile, others pendent on partial stalks, and the whole 

 intermixed with leaves disposed in a rose-like manner ; 

 and my friend Dr THOMPSON found in Haiden Dean the 

 rarer monstrosity of several perfect heads on the summit 

 of one stalk. 



4. P. maritima^ leaves linear, channelled, nearly entire ; flower- 

 stalks round, longer than the leaves ; spike cylindrical. Sea 

 Plantain. 



Hab. Sea and river banks. Lamberton Moor. Aug. If. 



5. P. coronopus, leaves in many pinnate linear segments ; 

 flower-stalks round. Euctfs-horn Plantain. 



Hab. Sea and river banks, common. June-Aug. 



The spikes of this and the preceding droop before the flowers 

 are evolved, when they become erect. The variety /3 of 

 the English Flora, with leaves scarcely divided, and a 

 small round head, may be found about the Needle-Eye, 

 and on the Farn Isles. 



