20 PLANTAGINACEAE 
orolla- _ erect and closed over the capsule, 4-4.5 mm. ne Psa and ror at apex, 
suriculat * base; corolla-tube puberulent on the siege seeds ark wine red, a 35 1 
wly lliptic- eee shallowly concave on inner, ee ae rounded = i. outer, 
faintly. na hes -punct 
and dry mesas, Sonoran Zones; locally distributed i a ig py ky toi from Corona Bluffs, Orange 
County, - San Diego; also, s outh of Tijuana to Rancho Cuevas, Lowe lifornia; east to Arizona, Texas, and 
adjacent ogee asin Mexico. 5 locality: “‘In Texas.’ April- 
i. iamicel aristata pana Bristly or Large-bracted Plantain. Fig. 4979. 
Plantago aristata Mic Fl. Bor. ngs +95. 1803. 
Plantago nuttallit . Mem. Soc. Linn. ee 470. 1828. 
Plantago patagonica var. aristata A. ai Man. ed. 2. 269. 1856. 
Dark 7 spe “ ual 1-4 dm. high, loosely villous to glabrate, yee on drying. Leaves 
ascending to t, linear , acuminate, 5-1. ’ i ; spikes surpassing 
the leave Se at with villous hairs, densely flowered, 3-10 cm. ieee Cele linear, ascend- 
ing, su ocr ae to seven times the length of the flower or longer at the base of the spike 
pals 3 mm. lon aici obtuse, villous, with a narrow scarious margin; corolla-lobes rotund- 
ae spreadin o ‘stam ns small, scarcely gone capsule ellipsoid, 3 mm. long; seeds 2, the 
nie roughened, concave on t the i ntae 
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Dry open ground, y Tran aw, Briti oe Columbia and found as an adventive in the Pacific States 
at Seattle, Washington gv te seh ra = Rogue River Valley, Oregon, and in Humboldt and Ventura Counties, 
California; exte g eastward to the eastern seaboard and south to Texas. Type locality: Illinois. May—Aug 
12. Plantago pirshii Roem. & Sch. Pursh’s Plantain. Fig. 4980. 
Plantago purshit Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 3: 120. 1818. 
Plantago guaphaloides Nutt. Gen. 1: 100. 1818. 
Plantago patagonica var. pnabhaliodes ss, Gray, Man. ed. 2. 269. 1856. 
nual; scapes erect or re caen slender, well exceeding the spikes, villous ‘oor epeni 
ing hairs and often also whit eaves narrowly linear- ere ol 1-4 m 
3-12 cm. dong: ag ties craic: 2 ee em. long; bracts linear to linear- cabalate: eae 
the calyx-lobes metimes exceedin m be low; es hg lobes aot gi obovate, m ong, 
densely long-villous carol: lobes Sens S benaaty ovate, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, white with brown- 
ish spot at base; stamens small, equaling or slightly veel the poo capsule 3-4 mm. long, 
lion ads. fate , dark brown, minutely pitted. 
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o Minnesota, oe and Chihuahua. Much less abundant in California ead Arizona and icine with P. 
purshit var. oblo ga. Type locality: ‘‘In dry situations on the banks of the Missouri.’”’ Collected by Nuttall. May— 
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tago purshii var. oblénga (Morris) pe sre jh & Lab. 18: 117. 1950. (Plantago picta Morris, 
Bull. Torrey Club 28; 118. 1901, not P. picta Colen oblonga Morris, op. cit. 119; pe Spee Morris, loc. cit. ; 
P. xerod a Mor ibe op. a 36: 515. eet i poe wien var. oblonga es op. cit. 55: _ 1928; P. purshii var. 
EE = 937. 
em; se, 0-5-1. and cm, Ton as in the species. Gane or sandy bovis slopes, So onoran Zones; Mojave and Colorado 
Deserts from San Bernardino County, California, to northern as vie California and bind Sey aid southern 
and central g Seer to western New Mexico; also Sonora. Type locality: Colorado Desert. Collected by Cerutt. 
March-April. 
The more — form in southeastern California and adjacent Arizona and Sonora, P. ignota Morris, repre- 
ariation Ee len gth of bracts. 
13. Plantago insularis Eastw. Island Plantain. Fig. 4981. 
Plantago insularis Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 1: 112. 1898. Not P. insularis (Godr.) Nyman ex Briquet 
1901. 
Plantago brunnea pe Bull. Torrey Club 27: 115. 1900. 
Very similar to Plantago erecta in general habit, stems slender, usually spreading, canescent 
with oes ae se especially on the scapes below the spikes. Leaves narrowly to broadly linear- 
lanceolate, er va often with a few callous teeth on the margins; spikes o oblong-cyfindric, em 
long, 8-10 m 
ong, wide; bracts broadly ovate or orbicular, about equaling the 
ro or g ish midrib, broadly scarious-margined and _ closely resembling t yx-lobes 
Te conspicuously brownish at base, often brown-striped above middle; seeds oblong, 
ed yellow or reddish, smooth and ssy, 2-3 eeply excavated on nner face 
ce rh sandy ie Upper and Lower Sonoran Zones; gee ie oast of southern California from Point 
Contapciod, eyo Barbara County, to San Diego County and on the ilar ds off the coast; also on the western 
side of Lower California to the Viscaino Desert, — it intergrades with the variety. Specimens from the 
San Ten Valley, except for corolla-markings, resemble the variety. Type locality: San Nicolas Island, 
sea-shore flats,’ Ventura County, California. March— Mas. 
Plantago insularis var. fastigiata eet Jepson, Man, Fl. Pl. Calif. 956. 1925. (Plantago minima 
Ciena Proc. Indiana Acad. 1896: 2 1897, not P. ig DC.; P. fastigiata Morris, Bull, Torrey ciws 
27: 116. — 2a scores. Morris, op. cit. ia: i ae gooddingii Nels. & Kenn. Muhle nberg a 3: 142. 8; P. in- 
sularis va a Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. Calif, sft 1925.) Conspicuously white-silky fede or ae annual; 
bracts orbicular to to  heoety ovate, sepal-like, with greenish, usually hairy midribs and broad hyaline margins; calyx 
lobes faintly if at all brownish at base; seeds nee ce € species. cnish ape with the dense Rape ore habit represent 
