Plantaginaceae 375 



Ovary ovoid ; style slender, commonly persistent ; stigma 

 peltate to funnelform, entire or slightly 2-lobed. 



1. O. Californicum C. & S. Viscid-pubescent; stems stout, 

 usually simple, 5-15 cm. high ; flowers crowded in a dense 

 raceme; pedicels 2-4 or the lower sometimes 10 cm. long; bract- 

 lets close to the calyx; calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, about 

 equaling the yellowish or purplish corolla, this 2-2.5 cm. long; 

 anthers glabrous or slightly hairy. 



Elysian Park, Davidson. 



2. O. tuberosa (Gray) Heller. Pruinose-puberulent ; stems 

 stout, with a thickened tuber-like base, 15 cm. high or less ; 

 spikes dense, corymbose-glomerate at the summit of the thickened 

 stem ; flowers subsessile or on short pedicels ; calyx-lobes lanceo- 

 late, equaling the corolla-tube; corolla yellowish, about 10-15 

 mm. long; anthers glabrous. 



Echo Mountain among shrubs, McClatchie. 



Family 88. PLANTAGINACEAE. PLANTAIN 



FAMILY. 



Annual or perennial mostly acaulescent rarely stolon- 

 iferous herbs, with basal, in the caulescent species oppo- 

 site or alternate, leaves, and small perfect, polygamous 

 or monoecious flowers, bracteolate in dense terminal 

 long-scaped spikes or heads, or rarely solitary. Calyx 

 persistent, 4-parted. Corolla hypogynous, scarious or 

 membranous, mostly marcescent, 4-lobed. Stamens 4 or 

 2, inserted on the corolla-tube or throat ; filaments fili- 

 form ; anthers versatile, 2-celled, longitudinally dehis- 

 cent. Ovary superior, 1-2-celled or falsely 3-4-celled. 

 Style filiform, simple, mostly longitudinally stigmatic. 

 Ovules 1-several in each cell. Fruit a membranous or 

 coriaceous capsule, circumscissile at or below the middle. 

 Seeds peltate. 



