170 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



over the Avhole of England. Local in Scotland, though extending 1 

 north to Aherdeenshire, where it grows on the banks of the Dee, 



opposite Kingcausie. In Ireland it occurs only in places where it is ^ 



supposed to have been introduced. ^| 



England, Scotland, [Ireland.] Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock 1 -headed, passing gradually downwards into a long 

 tapering taproot. Leaves generally spreading in a circle, 2 to 6 inches 

 long, the lamina much longer than the petiole, but when the plant 

 grows in damp shady places the leaves are erect, sometimes 14 inches 

 long, with the petiole nearly as long as the lamina, but stUl passing 

 insensibly into the latter. Scapes G to 18 inches high, curved at the 

 base, then erect, except when the leaves are erect, in which case there 

 is scarcely any curvature at the base. Bracts often tinged with 

 purple, with silvery margins. Stamens much longer than the corolla; 

 filaments purple; anthers yellowish white. Capsule ovoid. Seeds 

 oblong-ovoid, plano-convex, dark brown, shining, the surface uneven. 

 Plant hoary, the scapes, especially when young, densely pubescent 

 with adpressed jointed hairs ; leaves also pubescent, but more sparingly 

 so than the scapes ; crown of the rootstock usually densely woolly. 



Honey Plantain. 



French, Plantain moyen. German, mUtlerer Wegerich. 



SPECIES III.— PL ANT AGO LANCEOLATA. Linn. 

 Plates MCLXIV. MCLXV. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. X^^I. Tali. MCXXX. Figs. 1, 2, 3, and Tab. 



MCXXXVII. Fig. 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2731. 



Leaves all radical, with rather long or short winged or channeled 

 petioles ; lamina strapshaped-elliptical or elliptical or oval, attenuated 

 at each end, 3- to 7-ribbed, repand, or denticulate throughout. Scape 

 deeply furrowed, the flowerlcss part exceeding the length of the leaves. 

 Bracts ovate, acuminate, longer than the calyx, not hooded at the 

 apex, slightly hairy on the midrid or glabrous Sepals hairy at the 

 apex, the 2 next the rachis strongly keeled. Corolla tube glabrous. 

 Capsule imperfectly 2-celled ; seeds 1 in each cell, shining, oblong-semi- 

 cylindrical, with a deep furrow on the inner surface. Plant sub- 

 glabrous, or with the scapes generally hairy, and the leaves sometimes 

 so ; neck of the rootstock woollj'. 



Var. a, inilgaris. 

 Plate MCLXIV. 

 Rootstock 1- or few-headed. Leaves shortly stalked, spreading or 



