^16 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Centunculus. 



circumstance is merely incidental, and does not mark even a 

 distinct variety. Yet such specimens were mistaken by Hudson 

 for P. Loeflingil, Linn. Sp. PL 166, owing to the figure of Peti- 

 ver, above quoted, being erroneously cited by Linnseus. On the 

 other hand, Ray himself took mountain specimens of our P. ma- 

 Titima for an exotic species of Baiihin, the Plantain noirdtre, 

 (P. nigricans) of Reynier's herbarium ; which Hallcr confounds 

 with lanceolata, and which others liave referred as inaccurately 

 to alpina. Dillenius, between brackets^ in the Synopsis, corrects 

 Ray's mistake. 

 Mr. Davies celebrates P. maritima, as a favourite food of sheep. 



b.V.Coronopus. Buck's-born Plantain, Star of the 

 Earth. 



JLeaves in many pinnate linear segments. Flower-stalks 

 round. 



P. Coronopus. Linn. Sp. PI. \66. mild. v. 1. 648. FL Br. 185. 



Engl. Bot. V. 13. t. 892. Honk. Scot. 54. JR. Dan. t. 272. 

 P. n. 658. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 293 ; excluding the reference to Petiver. 

 P. foliis laciniatis, Coronopus dicta. Rnii Sjin.^i.i. 

 Coronopus. Matth. I'algr. v. I. 448. /'. Corner. Epit. 276. f. 

 Cornu cervinum. Ger. Em.427.f. Lob. Ic. v. \. A'iT.f. 

 Buck's-horn Plantain. Petiv. H. Brit. t. A. f. 10. 



/S. Plantago graminco folio hirsuto, minor, capitulo rotundo brevi. 

 Dill, in Bail Syn. 316. 



On dry sandy or gravelly ground, frequent ; often near the sea. 



Annual. June — August. 



Root tapering. Leaves numerous, spread flat on the ground, pale, 

 hairy, pinnatifid and cut, with pointed segments, various in 

 breadth ; they are scarcely ever so starved as to be undivided, 

 answering to the var. /3. Spikes numerous, dense, cylindrical, 

 varying greatly in length, on spreading hairy stalks. Anthers 

 tipped with a membrane. Capi). of 4 cellsj with a solitary seed 

 in each, 



73. CENTUNCULUS. Chaff-weed. 



Linn. Gen. 58. Juss. 95. El. Br. 1 85. Dill. Nov. Gen. 111.^5. 

 Br.Pr.427. Lam. t. 83. Gcertn. t.itQ. 



Nat. Ord. Rotacece. Linn. 20. Lysimach'uv. Juss. 34. 



Cal. inferior, in 4 deep, lanceolate, acute, spreading seg- 

 ments, permanent. Cor, shorter than the calyx, mono- 

 petalous, tubular, withering; tube almost globular; limb 

 in 4 ovate, flat segments. Filam. short, equal, smooth, in 

 the mouth of the tube. Antli. roundish, of 2 cells. Germ. 

 globose, in the tube of the cor. Style cylindrical, erect, 



