78 Plantago hybrida. 



(seeding half an inch, destitute of every thing like woolliness at the 

 base. Scape slender, longer than the leaves, round and slightly pu- 

 bescent under a lens. Spike cylindrical, not exceeding one-eighth of 

 an inch in diameter, from half an inch to two inches long, and of a 

 green and sienna-colour, not deep brown or blackish as in the Euro- 

 pean and American specimens of P. maritima. Scapes nearly as nume- 

 rous as the leaves. This species, which is decidedly distinct from P. 

 maritima, I found four years, (now nine years) ago, in the exsicated 

 canal on the road to Lemon hill, close to the high gravel banks. I 

 there found it two years in succession, and on transplanting it into my 

 garden it produced seeds which came up the succeeding spring. The 

 mature specimens preserved the characters of the plant as given 

 above." Comp. Fl. Ph. as above quoted. 



It is now live years since I published the above account, and dur- 

 ing this time I have three or four seasons, met with specimens of the 

 above species, in difibrent parts of our neighbourhood. They (littered 

 in no respect from the above described plants. I have made a care- 

 ful comparison of the hybrida, (as I have designated the present 

 species,) with the European and American species, and from both 

 the hybrida is strikingly and specifically distinct. Flowers in April 

 and May, preferring cold and tenacious soil in the vicinity of pools. 



The figure represents the plant about the common size. 



