264 64. AMARANTHACEA, 
very long cylindrical, scape often 2 ft. high and 1. 1} ft. long.— 
y. spherostachya (W. and G.); 1. linear-lanceolate 3-nerved, 
spike globose, scapes 2—3 times as long as the 1. terete or slightly 
suleate. Root with long lateral fibres, neck clothed with dense 
wool. Scape and 1. with silky adpressed hairs.—d. lanuginosa 
(Koch) ; 1. lanceolate with long spreading silky hairs prostrate. 
—a. and 8. in meadows and pastures, y. sandy places. 6. Orkney. 
Mr. J.T. Syme. P. VI. VIL. Ribwort Plantain. 
4. P. media (L.); 1. elliptical with short broad stalks pubes- 
cent, scape round, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate-acuminate, sep. 
not keeled.—E. B.1559.—L. usually lying flat on the ground.— 
Meadows and pastures. P. VI.—IX. 
ee Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 2—4 in each cell. Cor.-tube 
glabrous. 
5. P. major (L.); |. broadly ovate on longish channeled stalks, 
scape round, spike long, bracts ovate-obtuse keeled about as 
long as the cal., sep. with a prominent dorsal nerve-—E. B, 1558. 
—L. ascending. Seeds about 8.—8. microstachya (Koch) ; scape 
weak shorter than 1., spike lax, 3—6-flowered.—Fields and waste 
places. 8. turf-bogs, Cunnamara, Ireland. P. VI—VII. Great 
Plantain. : 
2. LirroreLua Linn. 
1. L. lacustris (L.).—E. B. 468.—F. white. Fertile fl. ses- 
sile. Stalks of the male fl. 1—2 im. long. L. all radical, linear, 
fleshy, somewhat channeled.—Margins of lakes. P. VI. VII. 
Subdivision IV. MONOCHLAMYDEA. 
With a single perianth only, that is the cal. and cor. not db- 
stinguishable, or wanting. 
Order LXIV. AMARANTHACEA. 
Perianth 3—5-parted, scarious, persistent. Stam. hypogynous. 
Ovary free, 1-celled; ovule 1 or several, suspended from a free 
central seed-stalk. Style 1 or 0. Stigma simple or compound. 
Embryo curved round central farinaceous albumen.—L. without 
stipules or sheaths.—G. F. G. Monochl. 71. 
1, Amarantuus. Fl. moneecious. Perianth 3—5-parted. 
Stam. 3—5. Styles3. Caps. 1-celled, 1-seeded, bursting 
transversely. 
