PLANTAGINACE^. (PLANTAIN FAMILY.) 2C9 



4. 1*. lancbolXta, L. (Bibgbass. Rippleorass. English Pi,an- 

 TAiN.) Mostly hairy; scape grooved-angled, slender (lo-2° high), mnch 

 longer than the leaves; spike short and thick. % — Dry fields, mostly east- 

 ward. (Nat. from Eu.) 



§ 4. Flowers all perfect and commonly fertile, but of 2 sorts on different plants, some 

 with small anthers on short fHaments, others mth large anthers on bng-exsertedJUa- 

 ments : corolla glabrous, the broad round hbes vyiddy spreading : seeds 2 {one in 

 each cell), boat-shaped, deeply hollowed on the face: mostly annuals, with narrow 

 woolly or hairy leaves. 



5. P. Patagdnica, Jacq. Silky-wooUy, or becoming naked; leaves 

 1 - 3-nerved ; spike cylindrical or oblong, dense ; sepals very obtuse, scarious, 

 with a thick centre. (Found through almost the whole length of America.) 



Yar. gnaplialioides. Wliite with silky wool ; leaves varying from 

 oblong-linear to filiform; spike very dense (i'-4' long), woolly; bracts not 

 exceeding the calyx. (P. Lagopus, Pursh. P. gnaphalioides, Nutt.) — Dry 

 plains, W. Wisconsin? and southwestward. — Runs through var. spinuhsa smd 

 var. mtda into 



Var. aiistata. Loosely hairy and green, or becoming glabrous ; bracts 

 awned, 2-3 times the length of the flowers. (P. aristata, Michx., &c. ) — lUiQois 

 and southward. 



§ 5. Flowers dioeciously polygamous, or of 2 sorts fthe mostly sterile ones with the usual 

 large anthers on long capillary filaments, and the lobes of the corolla reflexed or 

 spreading ; the truly fertile with minute anthers on short included filamenis and the 

 corolla closed over the fruit in the form of ct beak: stamens 4 : pod 2-celled: seeds 1 

 or rarely 2 in each cell, nearly flat on the face : annuals or biennials, with rather 

 obscurely and fern-ribbed leaves. 



6. P. Tirginica, L. Hairy or hoary-pubescent (2'- 9' high); leaves 

 oblong, varying to obovate and spatulate-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, slightly or 

 coarsely and sparingly toothed ; spike dense, often interrupted or loose below ; 

 sepals ovate or oblong. (Includes many nominal species.) — Sandy grounds, 

 Rhode Island to Kentucky and southward. May -Sept. 



§ 6. Flowers of 2 sorts as in ^ 5, but the stamens only 2, and the corolla of the truly 

 fertile not so much dosed: pod 2-celled: seeds 2-19 in each cell, not hollowed 

 oti Hie face: small annuals or Jnennials, with narroioly linear or awl-shaped and 

 obscurely 1-ribbed leaves. 



7. P. pusilla, Nutt. Minutely pubescent (l'-4' high); leaves entire; 

 flowers crowded or scattered ; pod short-ovoid, 4-seeded, little exceeding the calyx 

 and bract. — Dry hills, New Tork to Illinois, and southward. April- Aug. 



8. P. heterophylla, Nutt. Leaves rather fleshy, acute, entire, or den- 

 ticulate, or some of them below 2 -4-lobed or toothed ; scapes 2' -8' high, in- 

 cluding the long and slender spike of often scattered flowers ; pod obhng-conoidal, 

 lO-28seedcd, nearly twice the length of the calyx and bract. (P. pusilla," 

 Decaisne, in DC.) — Low or sandy grounds, from Maryland southward. April - 

 June. 



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