73^ PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS! BOTANY. 



(Eurasia; naturalized in N. Amer.; also in Brazil); Magellan, by Dusen, 

 in the streets of Punta Arenas ; doubtless introduced. 



10. PLANTAGO MARITIMA Linn. (P. marginata Steud. ; 



P. juncoides Lam.) 



Leaves glabrous, fleshy, linear, obscurely nerved, 5-25 cm. long. 

 Scapes exceeding the leaves, with dense, blunt spikes of perfect flowers. 

 Seeds 2-4, twice as long as the calyx. 



(Eurasia, on the sea-shore; and on coasts of temperate N. Amer.; also 

 in S. Africa. Not in Australasia.) Patagon ; Golfo de San Jorge; Rivers 

 Gallegos and Sta. Cruz; Magellan; Fuegia, at Ushuaia; Nassau I., form- 

 ing "turf." 



P. MARITIMA MACROPHYLLA Speg. 



Leaves linear, fleshy, acute, 20-30 cm. long. 

 S. Patagon., Salinas by Rio de Sta. Cruz. 



P. MARITIMA PAUCIFLORA Speg. 



Small. Leaves linear, short (10-15 mm.), thick, rather rigid, apically 

 callous. Spikes 3-5-flowered. Scapes appressed-setulose, about twice as 

 long as the leaves. 



N. Patagon., by Rio Sta. Cruz. 



ii. P. MONANTHOS d'Urv. (Plate XXV, Fig. B.) 



Plantaginella. Stems branching, densely cespitose. Leaves crowded, 

 sheathing at the base, erect, subsquarrose or spreading, narrowly linear- 

 elongate, obtuse, obscurely toothed, with cartilaginous margins. Peduncles 

 many times shorter, glabrous at the base. Spikes i-4-flowered. Capsule 

 narrowly clavate, circumscissile below the middle, 2-celled. Cells 2-seeded. 



S. Fuegia to Cape Horn ; Falklands ; S. Patagon. (Hatcher). 



12. P. MYOSURUS Lam. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, 3-nerved, attenuate to a nar- 

 row petiole, puberulous on both sides. Peduncles erect, as long as the 

 leaves, laxly pilose, with spreading hairs. Spikes cylindrical, densely 

 flowered ; bracts hirtellate. Calyx-leaves narrow, oblong-elliptical, inequi- 

 lateral, obscurely toothed-ciliolate. Corolla-lobes ovate-cordate, acute, 

 glabrous. Ovary 3-ovulate, fruit usually 3-seeded. 



(Montevideo; S. Brazil; Argent); Patagon. 



