PLANTAIN FAMILY 15 
A ‘Siantty of 3 genera and sical 250 species of wide see distribution. 
1. PLANTAGO [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 112. 1753. 
Acaulescent or rarely leafy-stemmed herbs, the scapes arising from the axils of the 
alternate leaves. Calyx-lobes equal or sometimes two of them arger. Corolla salverform, 
the tube cylindric or constricted at the throat, the limb spreading in anthesis. Fruit a pyxis, 
— 2-celled, the partitions falling away with the seeds; seeds various. [The Latin 
ame 
wi genus of over 200 species of wide geographical distribution. Type species: Plantago major L. 
— se flowers spicate or capitate at apex of s 
s more or less laciniately divided (denticulate or oa entire in variety) ; spikes ne pe in bud 
et coronopus. 
Leaves entire or _ ater spikes erect in bud. 
Stout coarse perennials; stamens 4. 
em 8-16; g WE ovate, distinctly slender-petioled; caudex not woolly- bin ~ at leaf- ae 
SF ee 
Seeds 2-4(6); leaves ome linear-lanceolate, or if naxneaiee ovate these nda sg a short broad 
petiole; caudex usually woolly- willows at lea se 
Flowers ‘polygamous, of 2 kinds; the pistillate nici: lobes erect in ie: becoming condupli- 
d beak-like over ri — ed oo ule. . P. hirtella Seieetitena. 
iwc sivas oat alike, rem ets or reflexed over rnened ri ule. 
Capsule 6-8 mm. long, sitshie & “ie ular P. macrocarpa. 
besa 2-4.5 mm. long, circumscissile. 
Corolla pubescent without; leaves fleshy, glabrous; maritime species. 
5. P. juncoides. 
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Corolla glab ; leaves th 
Flower- bracts attenuate with alias tip, — Rocio J the flower-buds in young 
inflor eeds 2, conspicuously vated o: be nner surface. 
. P. lanceolata. 
saa sind ovate, wareely, as long as et aa aries in young inflorescence; seeds 
ually 4, flatten nner surfac 7. P. eriopoda. 
Slender — or if Wiech ie coarse and cond aes +" or 7% 
Stamens 4; corolla-lobes +: 5 mm. long. 
owers mostly dioecious; the pistillate corolla-lobes conduplicate, forming a beak 
over sould se, € : 
Seeds yellowish, aa face concave; sae rounded at apex. 8. P. virginica. 
Seeds: ‘haa red or coh apap ie face pin 
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9. ag uncata firma. 
Calyx-lobes short-acuminate at apex; seeds wine red. 10, fF. rhedosocad. 
Flowers perfect; corolla-lobes all spre cian or reflexed 
Bracts linear or subulate, = long as to much carpus the calyx, not scarious-margined 
Bracts 6-35 mm. long, “ait much surpassing calyx; plant darkening ying. 
. P. aristata. 
Bracts as long as or somewhat longer than calyx (lowest bracts in var. oblonga two 
to three times the length of calyces); plants grayish. 12. P. purshit. 
Bracts aa Be cg central midrib and wide scarious margins, about equaling to much shorter 
an ca 
Bracts resembling the sepals and about equaling them in length; mature seeds reddish 
yellow or reddish, shining 13. P. insularis 
Bracts geen sepaloid, — one- “half the length of the peoels? . red bw, the 
surface hive -_ > ctate 
Stamens 2; corolla minute, th mm. long. 
Seeds (2)3-4(6) ; scapes and leaves erect. 
Capsule conoidal, twice the sl of the calyx; corolla-lobes spreading or reflexed in age. 
15. P. bigelovit. 
eta a, ovoid to et car but little longer than the calyx; corolla-lobes mostly erect 
e but not — 16. P. pusil 
See ceyk-Ad; pine and lea’ 4 aalinihouk or spreading. 17S: heterophylla 
Stems leafy; flowers net on axillary pedunc ce 
1. Plantago corénopus L. Cut-leaved Plantain. Fig. 4969. 
Plantago coronopus L. Sp. Pl. 115; 1753. 
ual Se short- ato pa with a taproot, or in biennial or perennial plants the root- 
Ann 
crown becoming lignesc 2-2.5 cm. broad, somewhat lobed and sending out several tufts of 
leaves and sande Erayish-pubescent Rae cog peaed Se eaig 2.5-12 cm. long, pinnately 
divided into linear, ac segments, or in robust plants some Cees es bipinnatifid, the 
segments often remote oot — r less dec etsy cm. long including the spike; spikes 
slender, 2.5-9 cm "eae, dense, the Rice crowded and more or less imbricate; bracts ovate, 
