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nlniiiT (li,. niarfjins. Ratlicr CDininuii, imd gciicnilly (listributed; more 

 iiliiiiiilaiit ill the north. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Porcnnial. Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock slender, throwing out numerous runner like branches, 

 which at intcrvalH produce ]>lants like the parent, and in this way a 

 den.'ie carpeting is torined in the shallow water in which it grows. 

 Leaves all radical, fleshy, linear-subulate, .'icmi-cylindrical, flattened 

 or slightly channeled above, dilated and sheathing at the ba.-^e, 1 to 

 fi inches long. Male flowers on slender scapes, usually rather shorter 

 than the leaves, with 1 scarious ovate amplexicaul bract below the 

 middle (rarely with 2 bracts): sepals oblong-elliptical, obtuse, her- 

 baceous, with scarious margins: stamens veiy long; anthers jialc 

 yellow: ovary abortive, fusitbrin, with a short style. Female flowers 

 sessile, ^^'ith a very long style. Plant dark green, glabrous, or rarely 

 slightly pubescent. 



Plantain Shore-weed. 

 French, LUtorclle dfs /uo". German, Sumpf-Strandling. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



PLANTAGO ARGENTEA. Lhn. 



" Some few years ago I saw a specimen in the hands of Sir William 

 Hooker, which had been sent to him from Ireland by !Mr. Andrews, 

 and which apparently corresponded with continental examples of P. 

 argentea in the herbarium of Sir William." — II. C. Watson, in "Cy- 

 bele Britannica." Vol. II. p. 311. 



PLANTAGO AR EN ARIA. Lhw: 



Plantago alpina, Linji. and Plantago serpentina, 17//. have been 

 recorded as British, but forms of P. maritima seem to have been taken 

 for them. 



I ound a few years ago abundantly on the sand hills at Bumham, 

 Somerset; but in ISfKJ Mr. T. B. Flower was unable to find a single 

 specimen; in 1867 a few were obsei'ved. In 1865 I found a few 

 plants of it at Southend, Essex. 



PLANTAGO PSYLLIUM. L!,m. 



Has been reported to have been found at St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey, 

 in August, 1848, but has not permanently established itself. 



