130 MONOECIA— TETRANDRIA. Littorella. 



striated, from 3 to 5 inches high ; angular, and rough-edged, at 

 the top. Leaves several, radical, spreading or recurved, linear, 

 channelled, acute, rough-edged, shorter than the stem j their 

 longish sheaths closely embracing its base, each crowned with 

 a short membranous stipula. Catkins 4 or 5, alternate, brown, 

 crowded into an ovate, upright spike, not an inch long, having 

 a short, sheathing, brown, membranous bractea, or two, at its 

 base. 



MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. 



429. LITTORELLA. Shore-weed. 



Linn. Mant. 160. Juss. 90. Fl. Br. 101 1 . Lam. t. 758. 



Nat. Ord. Plantagines. Juss. 31. See Plantago, v. 1. 213. 



Barr.Jl. Cal. of 4 ovate, upright, acute leaves. Cor. of^- 

 petal, tubular, permanent; tube the length of the ca- 

 lyx, rather tumid; limb in 4 deep, equal, ovate, acute, 

 moderately spreading segments, finally membranous. 

 Filam. "from the bottom of the tube," [Hooker), capil- 

 lary, very long, at first doubled inward, then erect, equal, 

 finally flaccid. Anth. erect, heart-shaped, of 2 cells, 

 bursting lengthwise. 



Fert.Jl. Cal. none. Cor. of 1 petal, membranous, perma- 

 nent, in 3 or 4 deep, unequal, acute segments. Germ. 

 superior, elliptic-oblong, very small. iS/^j/^e thread-shaped, 

 erect, very long. Stigm. simple, acute. Nut oval, of 1 cell, 

 not bursting. Seed solitary. 



Herbaceous, with the habit of some species oi Pla?itago. 

 Only one species known. 



1. L. lacustris. Plantain Shore-weed. 



L. lacustris. Linn. Mant. 295. Willd. Sp. PI. v. A. 330. Fl. Br. 



1011. Engl.Bot.v.7.t.AQS. Hook. Scot. 27 ^. Lond.t. 168. 



Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 14. 14. 

 Plantago uniflora. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 67. Fl. Dan. 1. 1 70. 

 P. n. 655. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 292. 



P. palustris, gramineo folio, monanthos, parisiensis. RaiiSijn.Sld. 

 Gramen junceum, sive Holosteum minimum palustre, capitulis 



longissimis filamentis donatis. Moris, v. 3. 230. sect. 8. t.9.f. 30. 



Pluk. Almag. 1 80. Phyt. t. 35,/. 2. 



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