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carinate, broadly ovate; sepals oblong-ovate, 2-3 mm. long, often ciliate on the margins at apex ; 
corolla-tube pubescent, the lobes Leg ipinng: 1.5-2 mm. long; stamens and styles long-exserted ; 
capsule 2—5-seeded, the seeds a mm long. 
Banks and margins of apt along the coa d Transition Zone; southern Alaska to = Francisco 
Bay, Rees also Patagonia. Type locality: ee | i Rie ‘del Fuego. Collected by Commerson. June—Oct. 
Plantago juncoides var. ocker Fernald, Rhodora 27: 100. 1925. (Plantago maritima var. californica 
Pilger, Pieocnrcick 4709; 187. 1937.) A a fleshy plant with caudex often branched, the leaves depressed es 
rosulate, pronity linear or i) oblanceolate to yet onsen aanes stout, depressed or arcuate. Blu 
and beaches along the seashore, Clallam County, ashington, o Mon y County, California. Type Bi 
Montara Point, San Mateo County, California 
6. Plantago lanceolata L. English Plantain or Ribwort. Fig. 4974. 
Plantago lanceolata L. Sp. Pl. 113. 1753. 
Perennial or — _ short rootstock bearing conspicuous tufts of long brown hairs at 
the bases of leaves. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, mostly erect, acutish to acuminate at apex, 
narrowed below to the neal elongated, more or less winees ‘agile 4-40 cm. long including both 
blade and porte blade 5-35 mm. broad, entire or irregularly and remotely denticulate, glabrous 
or nearly so above, more or less pubescent Senet ea in the rather prominent, 3-5, parallel 
a like aoe ees rather slender, channeled, 1- igh; spikes ager short and ovoid at 
t, becoming elongated and cylindric i in ae 1.5- 6(10) cm. long, 5-9 m thick: flowers perfect ; 
Bae hyaline- margined, hice = on with an cb ai 8 bes a -acuminate on line tip, Sa ee ously 
surpassing the calyx; sepals with 2 a narrow gre rib and broad scarious margins, the 
two lower ones usually united ; corolla elabe ous, tecechish it ite tube short, the lobes ovate, spreading, 
sometimes ascending in fruit ; ‘filame s white; capsu e oblong g, very obtuse at apex, slightly longer 
than the calyx, 2-seeded ; seeds pte excavated o e fac 
ields, oedatle re ane myete places, frequent CHADIAN ong os ‘States and across the continent. Natural- 
ized pire Rubens. 
Highly roi: a to loath and pubescence of leaves, also as to length of mature s oe, whic ay be head 
ike, (The tall robust form — ig oe: — has been called P. altissima L.) A complete list 3 gurtice, sub- 
varieties, and forma) is to be fou n Pflanzenreich 4°; 313-327. 1937. 
7. Plantago gaat Torr. Saline Plantain. Fig. 4975. 
Plantago — Nutt. Gen. 1: 100. 1818. (Nomen dubium.) 
Plantago a uata James, Lo: teak 1: 445. 1823. Not Wallr. 1820. 
45, 
Plantago oblongifolia Decne. in A. DC. Prod. 131: 700. 1852. 
Plantago retrorsa Greene, Pl. Baker. 3: 32. 1901 
Plantago shastensis Greene, loc. cit. 
Perennial ; rootstock stout, sometimes elongate, the crown more or less long-villous with rust- 
colored haies among the old leaf-bases. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, acute at apex, 6-25 
cm. long, 5-9-nerved, narrowed toa sae petiole about one-half the length of the blade, glabrous 
e athe ith “ i 8 cm 
oos owere " 
long ; bracts broadly ovate to rou — the narrow scarious margins sometimes soe vd Batis 
not keeled ; sepals debt sarious-marg ned, = af 5 cm. lo sie corolla-lobes ovate, often metri- 
cal; style much exserted, as lon age than the stamens ; capsule bro adly conical arnts cs 
mm. or more ise olen ger by Beeastent base of style; seeds 3-4, black, 2-2.5 m 
cca od soil, Ris nsitio ; Nevada and Wyoming pent o Nova Scotia and Quebec; on a ee fic Slope 
it is coun fro’ eens: ae ti sh Columbia ; Jordan Valley, Malhe eur County, Oregon; and eastern Siskiyou 
soa Ae California, is ay it was first collected by Greene and later described by him as P. shastensis. Mor re 
} mater be eeded to evaluate this entity. Type "era lity: “Depressed and moist situations along the Platte.” 
une- 4 
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8. Plantago virginica L. Dwarf Plantain. Fig. 4976. 
Plantago virginica L. Sp. Pl. 113. 1753. 
Plantago ere Walt, Fl. Car. 85. 1788. 
Plantago missouriensis Steudel, Flora 32: 409. 1849. 
nnual with a slender vertical taproot, eporate or conan more or less villous va septate 
hairs. Leaves spreading or ascending, 1. long, the blades ablences late or meals wi! 2 
obovate or elliptic, entire or repand-dentate, af are wr eanel to slender or more o 
gined petioles ; scapes rect scending, cm. long; spikes dense or sometimes Dees A 
below ; flowers dioecious ; bracts. lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2 mm. long; calyx- lobes oblong 
to ovate, 2-2. 5 at with ‘prom ominent brownish midrib and broa oad, white, scarious margins ; coro olla 
of staminate flowe + with Eat quire: lobes, those of pistillate flowers erect and connivent in fruit ; 
pater ovoid or silengss oid, about equaling the calyx-lobes; seeds 2-4, rege yellow. 
Moist places, Babes ont tan Sonoran as. y en Texas, and a s the United States to the Atlant 
Coast cat sont be orthern Mexico; introduced in the Pacific States in Seetiwesterih sl and Shasta Caen. 
California. Type feuds: Virginia. May-July. 
9, Plantago truncata subsp. firma (Kunze ex Walp.) Pilger. Chile Plantain. 
Fig. 4977 
Plantago firma Kunze ex Walp. Nov, Act. Nat. Cur. 19: ove 1: 402. 1843. 
Plantago virginica var. firma Reiche, Fl. Chile 6¢: 117. 
Plantago truncata subsp. Sonia Pilger: Bot. Jahrb. 50: je ae 
Annual with a slender taproot, herbage hirsute throughout the spreading whitish hairs. Leaves 
