MACLOSKIE I PLANTAGINACE^E. 



731 



(From 



flowered scapes. The leaves capture insects, FIG. 94- 



being sensitive, and exuding a viscid secretion. 

 Species 50. (Fig. 55 in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 36, 

 p. 119.) 



PlNGUICULA ANTARCTICA Vahl. 



Leaves 3-5, 12 mm. long, oblong, very obtuse, 



often emarginate, glabrous, as is the scape. Co- 



rolla small, its lobes emarginate, white, with violet 



lines, the spur conical, obtuse, straight, shorter 



than the petals. (Fig. 94.) 



Magellan; Fuegia to Cape Horn; Staaten I. pinguicuiaantarctica. Plant, 

 "A very pretty little plant." "The peduncle is nearl y natural size ' dso 



. , , it i i i ,, fied flower and fruit. 



not absolutely glabrous, but has stalked glands. Flgra antarctica ^ 

 (Franchet.) 



Family 105. PLANTAGINACE.E. Plantain Family. 



Annual or perennial herbs, mostly with basal leaves and small, 4- 

 merous flowers, with dry perianth, bracteolate in dense spikes, or capitate 

 or solitary on scapes. Stamens 4, 2 or i, epipetalous, anthers versatile. 

 Ovary superior, i-4-celled. Style i, filiform. Capsule mostly circum- 

 scissile ; seeds i-several in each cell, with endosperm. 



Species 200, cosmopolitan. 



i. PLANTAGO Linn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual. Corolla-tube cylindrical, or 

 constricted at the throat, with spreading or reflexed limb. Capsule cir- 

 cumscissile, mostly 2-celled ; with seeds peltately fixed to the septum. 



Species numerous, in Eurasia, and the Mediterr. region and Canaries ; 

 some in Orient and S. Africa, Austral., Tasmania and New Zeal. Many 

 in N. Amer. 



Section Plantaginella includes a group of species having few-flowered 

 (i-4-flowered) spikes or heads, and 3-6-seeded capsules; being mostly 

 low or cespitose plants characteristic of the Andes and Australasia. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 A. Spikes few-(about 1-4-) flowered. (PLANTAGINELLA.) 



b. Leaves subulate, in tufts on the branches, silvery. Spikes 2-5-flowered, subsessile, con- 

 cealed amid the leaves. bismarckii. 



