282 63. PLANIAGIKACEJ5. 



ovate or obovate witli a broad membranous margin blunt, pedi- 

 cel not J aalong asthepilose-striatecal.-tube. — E. B. /S. 2928i — 

 Distinguished by its leaves.— Jersey. P. VL- VII.] 



Order LXIII. PLAjS[TAGINACE^. 



Cal. 4-parted, persistent, imbricate, inferior. Cor. 4-parted, 

 reffular, scarious. Stam. 4, bypogynous, or at tbe base of the 

 tube, alternate with, the segments of the cor. ; filaments at first 

 doubled inwards^ Ovary free, of 1 carpel, 1-celled, or with a 

 central compressed 2 — 4- winged placenta and thus 2 — 4-ceUed. 

 OvuleS' 1 or 2. Style 1. Caps, opening transversely. Seeds 

 peltate or erect. Radicle inferior. — O. F. G. 0am. i, 1 & 2. 



1. Plantago. F1. perfect. Cal. 4-cleft. Cor. with an ovate 

 tube and 4-parted reflexed limb. Stam. on the corolla. 

 'Caps, bursting transversely, 2 — 4-celled, 2^4-sedded. 



2. LiTTOEELLA. Moncecious. Male fl. stalked J sep, 4 ; tube 

 of the cor. cylindrical, limb 4-parted ; stam. bypogynous ; 

 filaments very long., , Fem. fl. sessile :, Sep.. 3 ; cor. obldng, 

 narrowed at both ends ; style long ; caps. 1-seeded. 



1. Planta'go Linn, Plantain. 



* Placenta 3 — i-winged, thus forr/iinff 3 — 4 cells. Seeds 1 in 

 each cell. 



1. P. Coron'opits (L.) ; 1. linear pinnatifid or dentate, scape 

 terete, spike slander, bracts subulate from an ovate base erect, 

 midrib of lateral sep. with a ciliate membranous wing. — Tube of 

 the cor. glabrous. Extremely variable, in size; and amount of 

 pubescence, woolly or nearly glabrous.,, L. varying in width, 

 nearly entire, or even doubly piunatifi,d. Spikes slender, IJ in. 

 long, maiiy-flowered ; or spherical with 2 — 6 flowers. — Gravelly 

 barren spots near the sea and inland. A. ? VI. Vll. BucKs- 

 horn Plantain. E. S. I. 



** Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 1 in each cell. Cor.-tube 



2. P. marit'ima (L.) ; 1. linear channelled fleshy convex on 

 the back, scape terete, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate mucrousite, 

 Sep. not, winged. — St. 88. 4. — -L. usually woolly at their base, 

 nearly flat and broad or linear, toothed or quite entire, glabrous 

 or hairy ; 3-veined, veins equidistant. Scape glabrous or hairy. 

 Caps, oblong-conical. Very variable in size. In a Cornish 

 variety the 1. are only 1 — 2 lines in lengtli and semicylindrical, 

 scapes very short, spikes sometimes only 3- or 4-flowered. — ^The 

 mountain plant is apparently P. sa-pentina (Vill.) ; its caps, is 



