II PLANTAGINE^ — CHENOPODIACE^ 343 



P. lanceolata. — This species also presents female as 

 well as complete flowers. It is visited by hive bees, 

 which moisten the anthers with honey, then force them 

 open, and collect as much of the pollen as they can. 

 The plant is glabrous, or, in the maritime variety, with 

 appressed hairs. The seeds are comparatively large, 

 shining, smooth, with a deep furrow on one side; they 

 have a thin layer of mucilage. 



P. maritima has glabrous leaves. The peduncles bear 

 an appressed pubescence. The seeds are like those of 

 P. lanceolata. 



P. Coronopus. — This species grows in sandy situa- 

 tions, generally near the sea. The lobes of the leaves 

 are so arranged that the rosette ofiers a smooth surface, 

 over which the sand blows, and on which it finds no 

 ledge or hollows in which it might accumulate. The 

 seeds are small, with narrow white expansions at each 

 end, and covered with a layer of mucilage. 



LiTTORELLA 



This genus differs from Plantago in the flowers being 

 few and monoecious. 



L. lacustris.^ — This is a small plant, 1^ to 3 inches 

 high, and grows in shallow ponds. It often goes some 

 years without flowering, till a dry summer comes, when 

 the water contracts and the ground is laid dry. The 

 stamens are sometimes ^ inch long. The plant is 

 glabrous or minutely hairy. 



CHENOPODIACE^ 



The flowers are inconspicuous, and appear to be 

 generally self-fertilised. Perhaps the pollen is carried 

 by creeping insects. Sprengel regarded them as wind 

 flowers, and no doubt this may sometimes be the case, 

 but they do not present the special characteristics of 

 wind-fertilised flowers. 



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