W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
PLANTAGO, Journ, PLANTAIN RIBWORT. 
Annuals or perennials with ribbed leaves, small 
whitish flowers in a bracted spike on a naked scape. 
Calyx of 4 persistent scarious-edged sepals; corolla 
withering on the 2-celled pod; 4 stamens. 
Leaves oval introduced weed, - ¥P. LANCEOLATE. 
Lea.es lanceolate or lance-oblong,P. LANCEOLATE. 
eae oblong lunear to shah native 
- P. PATAGONIA. 
P. mason, L. Common P. (in fie East.) Smooth or 
rather hairy, leaves often toothed abruptly narrowed in- 
to a channeled petiole; spike dense, obtuse, seeds an- 
gled, reticulated. Occasionally about gardens and 
yards. Not common here. 
p. LANCEOLATA. JL. English Plantain. Mostly hairy, 
scape grooved-angled, at length much longer than the 
leaves, slender, 9-24 in. high; bracts and sepals dry 
an dbrownish, seeds hollowed on the face. Rarely oc- 
curs on lawns in town, doubtless introduced with the 
grass seed. Very common in the East. 
P. PATAGONICA. Jacq. var. GNAPHALIOI DES. Gray. 
White with silky wool; leaves 1-3 nerved, varying 
from oblong-linear to filiform; spike very dense, 
1-4 to 1-2 in. long, wooly. Low, usually less than six in. 
high. Very common on the mesa in spring. 
8. VERBENAICEAE. (veErvarn FAMILY.) 
Herbs or shrubs with opposite leaves, more or less 
2-lipped or irregular corolla, 4 didynamous stamens, 
2-4 celled fruit, dry or drupaceous and usually splitting 
when ripe into as many 1-seeded indihiscent nutlets. 
Differs from Labiatae in the ovary not being 4 lobed, 
the style therefore terminal. 
VERBENA T'ourn VERVAIN. 
Herbs, with bracted flowers, sessile in a single or of- 
ten panicled spikes, tubular, 5-toothed calyx; tubular 
(of ten curved) salverform corolla, with somewhat un- 
equally 5 cleft border; 4 perfect and included stamens, 
upper pair oceasionally without anthers. 
Flowers small, in narrow spikes. 
Wena g daigicd or PRC RR EE: hairy 
V. BRACTEOSA. 
More ston ae sedninees PI Pak Uf BCE 
Flowers showy, spikes shorter or capitate. 
Gland of anthers small, short, sometimes incon- 
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