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PLANTAGINE-E. 
Order LXIV. PLANTAGINEiE. 
Cal. 4- (rarely 5-) parted, persistent, imbricate, inferior. Cor. 
4-parted, regular, scarious. Stani. 4, hypogynous, or at the 
base of the tube, alternate with the segments of the cor. ; fila- 
ments at first doubled inwards. Ovary free, 1-celled, or with a 
central compressed 2 — 4-winged placenta and thus 2 — 4-celled. 
Ovules 1, 2, or indefinite. Style 1. Caps, opening transversely. 
Seeds peltate or erect. Radicle inferior. 
1. Pi.antago. Cal. 4-cleft. Cor. with an ovate tube and 
4-parted retlexed limb. Caps, bursting transversely, 2 — 4- 
celled, 2 — 4 -seeded. 
2. Littorella. Monoecious. Male fl. stalked ; sep. 4 ; tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, limb 4-parted; filaments very long. 
Fem. fl. sessile ; bracts 3 ; cal. 0 ; cor. oblong, narrowed 
at both ends ; style long; caps. 1 -seeded. 
1. Plantago Linn. 
1. P. Coronopus (L.) ; 1. linear pinnatifid or dentate, scape 
round, spike slender, bracts subulate from an ovate base erect, 
midrib of the lateral sep. with a ciliated membranous wing, pla- 
centa 4-winged with 1 seed in each cell. — E. B. 892. — Tube of the 
cor. glabrous, not downy as stated by Koch. Extremely variable 
in size and amount of pubescence, sometimes woolly and at other 
times nearly glabrous. L. varying in width, nearly entire or 
even doubly pinnatifid. Spikes slender and 1§ in. long, or 
spherical with only 5 or 6 flowers. — Gravelly and sandy places 
both near the sea and inland. A. ? VI. VII. Buck' s-horn Plan- 
tain. 
2. P. maritima (L.) ; 1. linear grooved fleshy convex on the 
back, scape round, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate acuminate, sep. 
not winged, cups. 2-seeded, tube of the cor. pubescent. — E. B. 175. 
— L. usually woolly at their base, sometimes nearly flat and 
broad or linear, toothed or quite entire, glabrous or hairy. Scape 
glabrous or hairy. In a curious Cornish variety the 1. are only 
1 — 2 lines in length and semicylindrical, the scapes very short 
and the spikes sometimes with only 3 or 4 flowers. — Sea-coast 
and also on lofty mountains. P. VI. — IX. 
3. P. lanceolata (L.) ; I. lanceolate attenuated at both ends 
5-nerved, scape furrowed, spike ovate or oblong-cylindrical, 
bracts ovate acute or cuspidate, 2 lateral sep. keeled, caps. 2- 
celled : cells 1 -seeded, tube of the cor. glabrous. — E. B. 507. — 
L. nearly glabrous, lanceolate. Spike ovate. — /3. altissima (Koch) ; 
1. elongate-lanceolate, spike very long cylindrical, scape often 2 
feet high and I. 1§ foot long. P. altissima L. ? Jacq. ? This 
appears to be the true P. altissima, although in all the specimens 
of the Carniola plant that I have seen the spikes are young and 
