612 PLANTAGINACEJ3. Plantago. 



§ 3. Flowers perfect (and perhaps of two kinds) : stamens 2. 



6. P. Bigelovii, Gray. Annual, small and slender, a span or less in height, 

 slightly hirsute : leaves linear, obtuse, entire, a line or two wide, the broader ones 

 obseurely 3-nerved, shorter than the scape : spike oblong or linear, densely few - 

 many-flowered : bracts carinate, about the length of the calyx : lobes of the corolla 

 ovate, remaining open : stamens and stylo a little exserted : capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 somewhat exceeding the calyx, 2-celled, 4-seeded : seeds oblong, not hollowed on 

 the face. — Pacif. E. Eep. iv. 117. 



Salt-marshes, San Pablo Bay, at Benicia and Vallejo, Bigclow, E. L. Greene. Re-described 

 from good specimens collected by Mr. Greene. Flowers twice the size of those of the eastern 

 P. pusilla, which extends westward to Utah, and was mistaken for this in the Botany of King's 

 Expedition. 



P. ekiopoda, Torr., of the Rocky Mountains, which reaches Northeastern Nevada, also 

 P. m acroc arpa, Cham. & Schlecht. , of the northern Pacific coast, are the only other Western 

 species ; both with thiekish spikes and rather large flowers and capsules. 



