220 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
sole of ee bapee and ago, to act, or exercise. It is rather a worthless 
weed, bu not noe — to spread, or be troublesome, on farm 
or 
"The leaves r 
and other sores ; a fact eee peas to hav e been known in the time of 
SHAKsP may learn from his Jane and Juliet, Act I, Se. 2. 
* Rom. Your Plantain leaf is — for that. 
** Ben. For iphe - Sd saa 
“ Rom. For pues 
Pod onkd. 
2. P. lanceola’ta, L. Leaves lanceolate, acute at each end; scape 
sulcate-angled, ie and slender; spike ovoid-cylindric, short; calyx 
deeply 3-parted ; capsule @ 2-seeded, 
LancroLate Puantaco. Ribgrass. English Plantain. Buckhorn Plan- 
tai 
Lge otes Se and opland ‘meadows : introduced. Native of Europe. Fl. May —- August. 
Fr. Jaly -Septem 
Obs. This species, also} is extensively naturalized, and is particularly 
abundant in upland meadows, or clover grounds. e seeds being nearly 
the same size and weight as hana of the red clover, they cannot pagitt 
be separated—and thus the plants are disseminated together, 
culture of clover. Nearly al ‘kinds of stook eat this Plaintain rely, and 
it has even been cultivated ret for ne agg: Fgh ; but it is gene- 
rally much Mase bes bi eal t, ho owever, an - 
mode of ge ie progress, unless it ca 
be ceca peck by ate cides ot Clover and the valuable Grasses. 
Oxper XLVI. BIGNONIA’CEZ. (Bienonta Famity.) _ 
Woody or sometimes herbaceous plants, with mostly opposite, simple or compound leaves, 
or diandrous flowers. ~~ ‘alyx pe to or 5-cleft : corolla eaealat or Dell 
shaped, Spek, somewhat irregular am A Slava she iduous ; ovary free, 2-celled by the 
projection of the placen capsule coriaceous 0 pian 2-valyed, many-seeded ; 
large, flat, often winged, estitate of albumen. * 
Sus-orper 1. Bienonez. 
yP 2-valved pods. Seeds flat and winged. 
1. TH’COMA, Juss. TRUMPET-FLOWER. 
{Name abridged from ee Mexican.j 
