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regular, scarious. Stam. 4, hypogynous, or at the 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 cen- 
tral compressed 2—4-winged placenta and thus 2—4-celled. 
Ovules 1,2. Style 1. Caps. opening transversely. Seeds pel- 
tate or erect. Radicle inferior.—G. F. G. Gam.i. | and 2. 
1. PLantaco. Fi. 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-seeded. 
2. LirrorpLtia. Moneecious. Male fl. stalked; sep. 4; tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, limb 4-parted; stam. hypogynous ; 
filaments very long. Fem. fl. sessile; sep. 3; cor. oblong, 
narrowed at both ends; style long; caps. 1-seeded. 
1. Puantaco Linn. 
* Placenta 3—4-winged, thus forming 3—4 cells. Seeds 1 in 
each cell. 
1. P. Coronopus (L.); 1. linear pinnatifid or dentate, scape 
round, spike slender, bracts subulate from an ovate base erect, 
midrib of lateral sep. with ciliated membranous wing.—E. B, 892. 
—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 pinnatifid. Spikes slender 
and 14 in. long, or spherical with 2—6 flowers.—Gravelly barren 
spots near the sea and inland. A.? VI. VII. Buck’s-horn 
Plantain. 
** Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 1 in each cell. Cor.-tube 
pubescent. 
2. P. maritima (L.); 1. linear grooved fleshy convex on the 
back, scape round, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate mucronate, sep. 
not winged.—E. B. 175.—L. usually woolly at their base, nearly 
flat and broad or linear, toothed or quite entire, glabrous or hairy; 
3-nerved, nerves equidistant. Scape glabrous or hairy. In a 
Cornish variety the I. are only 1—2 lines in length and semicylin- 
drical, scapes very short, spikes sometimes only 3- or 4-flowered. 
—Sea-coast and at foot of mountains. P. VI.—IX. 
*** Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 1 in each cell. Cor.-tube 
glabrous. 
3. P. lanceolata (L.); 1. lanceolate attenuated at both ends 
5-nerved, scape furrowed, spike ovate or oblong-cylindrical, 
bracts ovate acute or cuspidate, 2 lateral sep. keeled —£. B. 507. 
—L. nearly glabrous, lanceolate, length 4—12 times the breadth. 
Spike short, cylindrical.—f. edata ; 1. elongate-lanceolate, spike 
