PLANTAGINACEE. (PLANTAIN FAMILY.) 103 
1. VERBENA, L 
Calyx 5-toothed, one tooth often shorter. Corolla salver-form, the limb unequally 
5-cleft. Stamens included, the upper pair sometimes sterile. Stigma unequally lobed. 
Ovary 4-celled.—Herbs with small flowers, ours about 2 lines in diameter. 
1, VW. officinalis, L, Some of the lower leaves pinnatifid; spikes mostly solitary, 
filiform; corolla purple or lilac, 2 or more lines in diameter. 
2. V. hastata, L. Stouter and taller, 3 to 6 ft. high; leaves serrate or incised, the 
lower hastate-3-lobed; spikes panicled, densely flowered; corolla blue, 2 lines in diameter. 
3. V. prostrata, R. Br. Soft hirsute, diffuse, a foot high; villous spikes long; 
corolla violet or blue. 
Orvrer 47. PLANTAGINACEZ. 
Stemless herbs with flowers in spikes, the 4-cleft regular corolla dry and scarious. 
1. PLANTAGO, L. Puanrary. 
Flowers 1m spikes or heads, bracteate. Calyx of 4 persistent sepals free from the ovary. 
Stamens 2 or 4 on the corolla alternate with its lobes, anthers versatile. Style filiform, 
bearded above.—Stemless herbs with nerved or ribbed radical leaves and naked scapes of 
small greenish flowers. 
* Flowers with 4 stamens. 
1. P. major, L. Mostly smooth; leaves ovate or broadly oblong, abruptly con- 
tracted into a channeled petiole, 5-7-ribbed; spike long and slender; capsule 7~16-seeded. 
2. P. hirtella, HBK. Leaves smooth, rather fleshy, oblanceolate to obovate, 3-7- 
ribbed, tapering into a narrow base or wing-margined petiole; scape 1 to 3 ft. high; 
flowers large. 
3. BP. lanceolata, L. Mostly hairy; leaves lanceolate, 3-5-ribbed; scape deeply 
grooved. 
4, P. maritima, L. | Leaves linear, fleshy; scapes usually short. 
5. P. Patagonica, Jacq. Leaves linear to filiform, thin, usually silky-woolly.—Dry 
ground. 
** Flowers with 2 stamens, 
6. P. Bigelovii Gr. Leaves linear; small. —Salt marshes. 
