CXL1X. 

 PLANTAGO MAJOR. 



Greater Plantain. 

 Class IV. Tetrandria. Order I. Monogynia, 



Nat. Ord. PlANTAGINEiE. 



Gen. Char. Calyx four-cleft. Corolla four-cleft, with 

 the segments reflexed. Stamens very long. Capsule 

 two-celled, bursting all round transversely. 



Spec. Char. Leaves broadly ovate, generally shorter than 

 the footstalks. Scape rounded. Spike long, cylindri- 

 cal. Dissepiment of the capsule plane; cells many 

 seeded. 



SYNONYMES. 



Greek .... upvoyXafcav. 



( Plantago latifolia major. Bauh. Pin. 189. 



I Plantago latifolia. Ger. Em. 419. 

 Latin . .< Planta &° latifolia vulgaris. Park. Theatr. 493. 

 Rail Syn. 314. 



I Plantago major. Lin. Sp. PI. 163. Eng. Fl. i. p. 213. Eng. 



L Bot. 1. 1558. 

 French .... Plantain ; Grand Plantain. 

 Italian .... Piantaggine maggiore. 

 Spanish . . Llanten mayor. 



Port Tanchagem major. 



German . . Grosser Wegerich. 

 Dutch .... Groote Weeggbree. 

 Danish .... Vejbred. 

 Swedish . . Grodblad. 

 Polish .... Labka. 



Russ Popuschnik. 



Persian . . . Kanasch. 



Description. — The root is perennial, consisting of numerous 

 whitish cylindrical descending fibres which proceed from a hard 

 ligneous stock or head. The leaves are all radical, large, 



