736 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Quebec, Ontario ; New England, west to Minne- 

 sota and Nebraska, south to Georgia and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. In close damp soil, pastures, waste places, borders of 

 fields. Common. Most abundant in upper districts. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Am. sept, ad colles et ad vias, prope Decatur, Alabama sept." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago maritima L. Sp. PL 1 : 114. 1753. SEASIDE PLANTAIN. 



Ad ventive from Europe with ballast. Mobile County; rare. Perennial. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in littoribus niari[ti]mis Europae borealis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago coronopus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 115. 1753. 

 Adventive with ballast. Mobile County ; rare. 

 Type locality : " Hab. in Europae glareosis." 

 Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago lanceolata L.Sp. PI. 1:113. 1753. RIB GRASS. ENGLISH PLANTAIN. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 202. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 423. Chap. Fl. 278. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 391. 



EUROPE. 



Extensively naturalized in Atlantic North America from Canada to the Gulf. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. In cultivated ground. Mobile County. May to July. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europae campis sterilibus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago aristata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 95. 1803. 



Plantago patayonica aristata Gray, Man. ed. 2, 269. 1859. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 424. Chap. Fl/Suppl. 634 ; ed. 3, 391. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 391. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb 2 : 345. 



Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. Southern New York to Tennessee and upper 

 Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central Pine belt. Dry, sandy ground. Clay 

 County, Moseley. Tuscaloosa County. Flowers July, August. Not rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in pratensibus Illinoensium." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago virginica L. Sp. PI. 1 : 113. 1753. COMMON PLANTAIN. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 201. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 424. Chap. Fl. 278. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 391. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 345. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England to southern Illinois and 

 Missouri, south to Florida, and west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Dry sandy fields. April to June. Abundant. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago virginica purpurascens (Nutt.). 



Plantago purpurascens Nutt. ; Rapin, M6m. Soc. Linn. Par. 6 : 454. 1827. 



P. occidental Decsne. in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1 : 722. 1852. 



P. virginica longifolia Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 392. 1878. 



Gray, Syn. PI. N. A. 1. c. Coult. Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 345. 



MEXICO. 



Louisianian area. Southern Arkansas and Texas to southern Arizona. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Pastures and waysides, in sandy soil. Mobile County, 

 Suinmerville. June. Only locality known in the State. 



Plantago heterophylla Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 5 : 177. 1833-1837. 



MANY-SEEDED PLANTAIN. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 424. Chap. Fl. 278. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 392. Coulter, 

 Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 345. 



Carolinian and Louisianiaii areas. Virginia to Tennessee and Florida, west to 

 Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Low damp fields, pastures. Lawrence 

 County, Moulton. Tuscaloosa County. Lee County, Auburn (Earle). Mobile County. 

 Flowers, April, May; frequent. Annual. 



Type locality: "On the banks of the Mississippi and Arkansas; abundant." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



