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the following diagnosis found in his Fi. Anglica, 58, 1762 :—*« P. 
foliis ees lanceolatis basi lanatis, spica ge as scapo tereti. 
Plantago alpina angustifolia. Bauh. hist. ili. 506; R. Syn. 8165. 
si "Wizata ain- -pla ntain. Habitat in rapib Se ripe supra 
lac eres n Bochlyn Sancti Parisii; D. Lawyd— 
. Banks at Brit. Mus. ree exist jabelled * Llan- 
beri: ‘it 1773. “ins Llyn Bochlin, a lake on the side of 
Sate. oe aw Mr. Lloyd found it. “Hee Raii Syn. edit. 8. 
he plants are named “‘ P. montana, Huds. lanceo- 
a 8 Linn These were collected by Banks during his visit ” 
Wales in compan y with Lightfoot, of which the oa s account i 
published in this Jeera for 1905 (pp. 290-3807). e plant is 
mentioned tas P. montana) on p. 804, where Mr. Riddelsdell ped 
the name of the lake as ‘ a Bo chlwyd.” Lightfoot adds a 
note: ‘‘N.B. This is no other than a variety of Plantago lanceolata 
with a round head.” Ray included the plant in his first edition 
(1690, p. 126), but was doubtful as to its identity with Bauhin's 
P. alpina angustifolia ; in the third edition Dillenius, who may have 
seen Agr plant on his visit to Snowdon, gives the following note 
‘‘Plantam hane e rupibus gels i [sic] orientem 
pester (hi in nore nostrum intuli, ubi jam vivet; D. Richardson. 
Plantagini marine Ger. tam similis est ut prec request. Spica 
saltem ‘eracilior est, quod loci conditioni procul dubio debetur. 
n the Continent the plant has had the Sllowing names and 
deseriptions — 
P. danseolaws, ~ e, foliis angie subhirsutis, basi hirsutis- 
Soe spicis subglobosis. P. lance ay fe Poir. Dict. 5, p. 372 
(De Candolle, Fl. Fr. vol. v. (vi.), 377, 
*« P. lanceolata. L, y spharostachya,” 1 Wicole plant a leaves 
spread out in a rosette, flat on the ground, narrow, only 3-nerved, 
smooth or somewhat shaggy, the bearing at the base of the same 
long, scape slender, spike small, almost globular. In dry and 
03, 1828. 
“ P, lanceolata L. B capitellata. foliis angustis subhirsutis basi 
hirsutissimis, scapis fatbas, spica subspheerica : P. lanceolata 
y¥ spharostachya D. fi. 1.¢. P. lanceolatae .c. Occu pet cco 
scapis fere pedalibus, foliis forme vulgaris : P. lanceolata var. capi- 
tellata Sonder in litt.” (Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helvet. ed. 3, i. 
57. 
“ P. lane eolata, L L. 3. P. capitata, Ten. ; Mes SS Koch.) 
Forme naine, a feuilles étroites, entiéres, ord‘ laineuses 4 la base ; 
oe subglobuleux.” (Corbiére, Nouv. Fl. de armada 483, 
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have seen examples of this variety from ‘‘ mountain pastures above 
Cave Hill [Belfast], July, 1846”; ‘‘ St. Aubin, Jersey. Aug. 1842”; 
* St. Martins, Guernsey, 1841, All these are in the National 
