PLU.MnAGINACE.E. 159 



SPECIES TI.-ARMERIA PLANTAGINEA. Willi. 



I>i.vTK MCLIV. 



Peich. Jc. Fl. Gorm. et Hclv. Vol. XVII. Tub. MCLI. Figs. 1 & 2. 

 Bill-'l, Fl. Cfall. ct Gt-rm. K.xsicc. No. 837. 



A. sabulosft, Ji>r(i. Bar. Fl. do Centre do la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 537. 

 Statdce plantaginoa, All. Koch, Sjn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. G82. 



Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, acute, 3- to 5-nerved, rarely 7-nervcd. 

 Exterior bracts of the involucre mucronate or often aristate or 

 foliaceous ; interior ones scarious, obtuse, usually sli;;litly mucronate 

 from the nerve bcinf]f cxcurrent. Calyx obliquely truncate at the 

 base; sejjmcnts cu.^i)idato-aristatc. 



In sandy pastures and banks by the sea in Jersey, where it grows 

 in St. Br«51adc's Bay, and on the Quenvais. 



Channel Islands. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



This is a stouter plant in all its parts than A. xnilgaris, with the 

 leaves nmch firmer in texture, and in shape resembling those of Plan- 

 tago lanceolata. Tlie loaves and stems are quite glabrous. The ochrcate 

 bract at the apex of the scape is usually longer, and has the apex 

 less deeply laciniate. The exterior involucral bracts have commonly 

 longer points than in A. vulgaris, often considerably exceeding the 

 flower-head, and sometimes even foliaceous. The calyx has the awns 

 much longer. The pedicel is not half the length of tjie calyx tube. 

 The branches at the apex of the rootstock are shorter, so that the plant 

 prows in denser tufts, and below the leaves the bases of the decayed 

 leaves remain longer, so as to give tlie rootstock a scaly appearance. 



Plantain-leaved Thrift. 



French, Armfrie afeuilles de j>lanta!n. German, wegerichhlatlrige ChasnelJce. 



UYBRID (?)— AR MERIA VULGARI-PLANTAGI N E A.(?) 

 Plate MCLV. 



Intermediate between A. vulgaris and A. plantaginea. From the 

 fonner it differs in growing in a denser tuft; in the leaves being 

 firmer, broader, slightly enlarged towards the ape.x, and tapering to an 

 acute jx)int ; in the stems being longer and more rigid ; in the ochreate 

 bract being longer; in the involucral bracts being more distinctly cus- 

 pidate; in the pedicel being as short a.s in A. plantaginea, and in the 

 segments of the caly.x having much longer awns. From A. plantaginea 

 it differs in the leaves being less coriaceous, narrower, 1-nerved or 



