FLOWERING PLANTS AND PERNS OF INDIANA. 935 



P. lanceolata L. Ribwort. Rib-grass. English Plantain. 



[ndicative of coarse, rather gravelly dry soils. Found through- 

 out the State at borders of fields, in waste places and along rail- 

 ways. In some localities becoming an annoying weed. 



Flowers from April until bhe heaviest frosts. 



Tippecanoe (Cunningham); Jefferson (Barnes); Monroe and 

 Vigo (Blatchley); Putnam (MaeDougal); Jay, Delaware, Ran- 

 dolph, ami Wayne (Phinney); Clark (Baird and Taylor); Noble 

 (Van GTorder); Franklin (Meyncke); Hamilton and Marion (Wil- 

 son); Steuben (Bradner); Fa) r ette (Hessler). 



P. sparsiflora Michx. Southern Plantain 



Reported only from southern part of the State. I would be 

 inclined to regard it as a depauperate form of-P. major had it not 

 been for the two-seeded pyxis. Reported also in southern Illi- 

 nois. 



Clark (Baird and Taylor). 



P. cordata Lam. Water Plantain. Heart-leaved Plantain. 



Of more common occurrence in State than reports would indi- 

 cate. In marshes and along low hanks of rather sluggish streams. 



Flowers from March through duly. 



Tippecanoe (Cunningham); Gibson and Posey (Schneck); Kos- 

 ciusko (Coulter). 



P. aristata Michx. Large-bracted Plantain. 



(P. Patagonica aristata Gray.) 

 Not abundant, but found in several counties in dry. coarse 

 soils, chiefly along railway embankments and roadsides. 

 Flowers from May until the frosts. 



Vigo (Blatchley); (lark (Baird and Taylor); Dearborn (Col- 

 lins); Hamilton (Wilson); Cass (Hessler). 



P. Virginica L. Dwarf or White Plantain. 



Common in many parts of the State in t\ry soil in waste places. 

 Flowers from the middle of March through dune. 

 Tippecanoe (Cunningham); Clark (Barnes); Monroe and Vigo 

 (Blatchley); Jefferson (J. .M. ( '.Milter); Franklin (Meyncke); Gib- 

 sou and Posey (Schneck); Knox (Spillman); Fayette (Hessler) 



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