288 63. PLAKTAGINACE^. 



slender 1-veined. A. maritima (Boiss.), A. puhescens Link. — /3. 

 planifolia (Syme) ; 1. nearly flat above broadly linear blunt, 

 early 1. 3-veined. Sy. R B. 1153.— y. A. duriuscula (Bab.) ; 

 1. subtric[uetrous cbannelled above very slender 1-veined. A. 

 puligera and A. duriuscula Bab. — Muddy and rocky sea-shores, 

 also on mountains. /3. Scottisb Highlands, Ben Lawers ! 

 y. Southern sea-shore. P. IV. — IX. E. S. I. 



\_A. plantagin'ea (WiUd.) ; I. 3 — 5-veined linear-lanceolate 

 with a narrow membranous margin, scapes glabrous rough, 

 outer inv. -bracts triangular or lanceolate cuspidate, others ovate 

 or obovate with a broad membranous margin blunt, cal.-segm. 

 with long points. — E. JB. S. 2928. — Distinguished by its leaves. 

 —Jersey. P. VI. VH.] 



Order LXIII. PL ANT AGIN ACE^. 



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

 regular, scarious. Stam. 4, hypogjTious, or at the base of the 

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

 doubled inwards. Ovary free, of 1 carpel, 1-celled : or 2—4- 

 celled. Seeds peltate or erect. Style 1. Caps, opening trans- 

 versely (or indehiscent in lAUorella). Radicle interior. 



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-oelled, 2 — 4-seeded. 



2. LiTTORBLLA. Monoecious. Male fl. stalked ; sep. 4; tube 

 of the cor. cylindrical, limb 4-pai'ted ; stam. hypogynous ; 

 filaments very long. Fern. fl. sessile ; sep. 3 ; cor. oblong, 

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



I. Planta'go Linn. Plantain. 



* Placenta 3 — ^-winged, thus ftyrming 3^-4 cells. Seeds 1 in 

 each cell. 



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

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

 midrib of lateral sep. with a ciliate membraiious wing. — JE. £. 

 892. — Tube of the cor. glabrous. Extremely variable in size 

 and amount of pubescence, woolly or nearly glabrous. L. vary- 

 ing in width, nearly entire, or even doubly pinnatifid. Spikes 

 slender, 1^ in. long, many-fiowered ; or spherical with 2 — 6 

 flowers. — Gravelly Darren spots near the sea and inland. A.? 

 "S'l. VII. £uck's-/wrn Plantain. E. S. I. 



