64 TETRANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. [Planlago. 



Fl. July. 0. — A small, slender and graceltil plant, with ycWow Jiowers, 

 differing: from Gentiana in the number of sta7nens and divisions to the 

 cal. and corolla. 



9. Plantago. Lmn. Plantain. 



1. P. major, L. {greater P/antai?}) ; leaves broadly ovate 

 mostly on longish foot-stalks, scape rounded, spikes long cylin- 

 drical, dissepiment of the capsule plane, each cell many-seeded. 

 E. Bat. t. 1 558. 



Pastures and road-sides, frequent. FL June, July. 1^ — Leaves all 

 radical, more or less spreading-, with 7 nerves, entire or toothed, glab- 

 rous or pubescent. Petioles varying in length, sometimes as long as 

 the leaf, ribbed. Spihe dense. At the base of each flower is a concave 

 bractea. Cal. of 4 minute leaflets. Caps, ovate, with 6 or 8 seeds 

 in each cell. 



2. P. media, L. {hoary Plantahi); leaves ovate sessile or ta- 

 pering into short and broad footstalks, scape rounded, spike 

 cylindrical, dissepiment of the capsule plane, each cell 1-seeded. 

 E. Bat. t. 1559. 



Meadows and pastures, less frequent in Scotland. Fl. June, July. 1/ . 

 — Stamens long, with dark \>\ir\)\e filaments. Spihe shorter than in P. 

 major, and more silvery from the shining scariose corollas ; but a more 

 essential difference exists in the ct7/s of the ca/>s«/e, which are but 1-seeded. 



3. P. lanceoldta, L. (Ribwort Plantaiii) ; leaves lanceolate, 

 scape angular, spike ovate or ovato-lanceolate, dissepiment of 

 the capsule plane, each cell 1-seeded. E. Bot. t. 175. 



Meadows and pastures, often too abundant. Fl. June, July. '^ . — 

 The leaves and scape are observed by Mr S. IMurray to yield strong 

 fibres. The spike has its bracteas sometimes, by luxuriance, converted 

 into leaves ; and sometimes a new scape and spike grow out horizontally 

 from among the bracteas. Lightfoot mentions a var. with globular 

 heads : this is probably the same as I have found at a considerable ele- 

 vation upon the mountains of Scotland, with short leaves, long and slen- 

 der scapes, hairy and scarcely angular, with small dark brown almost 

 globular heads, and the bracteas more or less hairy. This is scarcely 

 different from the P. montana of authors. 



4. P. maritima, L. [sea-side Plantaiti); leaves linear grooved 

 fleshy woolly at their base, scape rounded, spike cylindrical, 

 dissepiment of the capsule plane, each cell 1-seeded. E. Bot. t. 

 175. — jS. major; leaves almost plane inclining to lanceolate 

 toothed glabrous, scape densely hairy y. 7ninor ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate densely hairy as well as the scape. 



Grassy pastures by the sea-side ; frequent near the margin of fresh 

 water lakes and on the bases of mountains sloping down to them, as by 

 Loch-Lomond, also on the summits of the highest mountains. — jS. On 

 the island of Cumrae, among rocks. — y. Among rocks by the House 

 of Skail, Pomona, Orkney; G. Anderson, Esq. Fl. June — Sept. 1(. . 

 — Varying much in size and in the breadth and hairiness of its leaves 

 and scapes : sometimes the leaves are almost filiform, often lanceolate ; 

 in the curious var. found by Mr Anderson, they arc clothed with short, 

 dense hairs ; — always very succulent. 



