TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Plantajro. 215 



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p. quinquenervia. Ger. Em. 422./. Rati Syn. 314. 



P. longa. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 437./. Corner. Epit. 263./. 



P. minor. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 24./. 



In meadows and pastures, very common. 



Perennial. June, Juli/. 



Root ratlier woody. Leaves numerous, erect, deep green, acute, 

 each taj^ering at the base into a broad, flat, ribbed footstalk, 

 accompanied at its insertion with large tufts of soft, white, 

 woolly fibres. Flowerstnlks taller than the leaves, likewise woolly 

 at the base, five-angled, with intermediate furrows, nearly 

 smooth, twisted. Spike an inch long, with black imbricated 

 bracteas, and occasionally leafy at the base. Cor. pale. Anth. 

 large, cream-coloured. The sj)ikes are liable to the very same 

 transformations as in P. major. This species makes a part of 

 most meadow hay, and has been cultivated as a crop, but seems 

 to be now disused. Cattle are said not to eat it willingly, at 

 least by itself. 



4. P. marit'ima. Sea Plantain. 



Leaves linear, channelled, nearly entire. Flowerstalks round, 

 longer than the leaves. Spike cylindrical. 



P. maritima. Unn. Sp. PI. 165. Willd. v. 1. 647. Fl. Br. 184. Engl. 



Bat. V. 3. t. 175. Fl. Grcec. v. 2. 37. t. 148. Hook. Scot. 54. 



Davies Welsh Botanol. 16. Fl. Dan. t. 243. 

 P. marina. Rail Syn. 315. Loh. Ic. v. 1. 306./. Ger. Em. 423. f. 

 P. an alpina angustifolia. J .B. v. 3. 506 ?. Rail Syn. 315. Not 



Bauhin's plant. 

 P. montana. Huds. ed. 1. 53. 

 Coronopus. Ger. Em. 425. f. 

 Sea Planiain. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 4./. 9. 



In muddy salt marshes, and about the mouths of large rivers j as 

 also on the loftiest mountains of Wales and Scotland. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Root long, cylindrical. Herb extremely various in luxuriance. 

 Leaves numerous, all radical, spreading, fleshy, from 4 to 12 

 inches long, linear, acute : channelled above ; convex beneath ; 

 dull green, smooth, or somewhat hairy ; either quite entire, or 

 frequently, in maritime situations, beset with a few distant, ir- 

 regular teeth J more or less woolly at the base, but neither con- 

 tracted there, nor stalked. Flowerstalks several, taller than tlie 

 leaves, erect, or ascending, round and even, generally smooth. 

 Spike long and slender, many-flowered, slightly tapering, dense, 

 uninterrupted, with fleshy bluntly keeled bracteas, not longer 

 than the calyx. Stigma undivided, not cloven. I have not seen 

 the ripe capside. 



Some of the above figures, as those of Fl. Grtcc, Lobel, and one 

 of Gerarde's, represent the haves with a few tcetli ; but that 



