294. 49.Arnoglos. 18. PL ANT AGIN E^. PL ex, cor. 



5. Arnoglossum Alpinwm. Alpine lambs to7igue. 

 Leaves linear, lanceolate, flat, bald, not cut, soft; spike 



cylindrical ; hractecB shorter than the flower ; scape round, 

 double the length of the leaves. 



Plantago, an Alpina angustifolia J. Bauhini, Rati Syn, 315, 9. 

 Plantago Alpina, Lin. S. P. !65. 

 Plantago maritima y, Huds, Fl. ^ngl. 64-. 



Alpine pastures • perennial ; June. 



Leaves 2 inches high ; spike an inch long ; Jlowers loose. 



6. Arnoglossum suhulaium. Aivlshape lamhsiongtie. 

 Leaves linear, awlghape, hard; spike cylindrical; hraclece 



shorter than the flower; scape round, pubescent, rather 

 flexuose. 



Plantago siibulata, Lin. S. P. 166. 

 Plantago Coronopus 3, With. 257. 



Meadows on the sea-coast ; perennial ; June to August. 

 Leaves hard, pointed, dark green, hairy ; spikfi: cylin- 

 drical ; flowers slightly distant. 



III. 50. ASTEROGEUM. Star-of-lke-earth. 



Perigonium 4-lobed; anthers ending in a small lanceolate" 



membrane; ovary 3 or 4-celled ; dissepiments 3 or 4-seeded; 



cells i -seeded. — Stem scarcely any; spike and leaves radical. 



Asterogeuvi laciniatum. Jagged star-of-the~earih. 



Leaves rather hairy, pinnatifid ; scape round, downy; 

 IraciecE hairy. 



Plantago foliis laciniatis, Coronopus dicta, Rail Sijn, 315,8, 

 Cornu cervinura, Ger. em. 427. 

 Plantago Coronopus, Lin. S. P. 166. 

 Harts-horn. Herb -ivy, 



Sandy places ; annual ; May to x\ugust. 

 Leaves hairy, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid ; scape an inch 

 long. 



B. capitatum. Spike very short, few-flowered, almost ca- 

 pitate; leaves nearly entire. 



Plantago graminco folio hirsiito, minor, capitulo rotundo brcvi, Dillen 

 in Rail Syn. 316, 10. 



Fam. II. 19. LITTORELLIDEiE. Plantaginum genus. 



Jussieu. 



Flowers unisexual. — Male. CcZyx 4-parted, persisting; 



corolla 1-petaled, tubular, scariose, persisting; /iw^4-parted; 



.<itamens 4, inserted on the receptacle; filaments exsertcd, 



