PLANTAGINE/E AMARANTIIACEJE. 
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ovate. — y. splicer ost achy a (W. and G.) ; L linear-lanceolate 3- 
nerved, spike globose, scapes 2 — 3 times as long as the 1. terete 
or slightly sulcate. Root producing long lateral fibres, neck 
clothed with dense wool. Scape and 1. with silky adpressed 
hairs. — «. and /3. in meadows and pastures, y. on the sandy sea- 
shore. P. VI. VII. Ribwort Plantain. 
4. P. media (L.) ; I. ovale with short broad stalks pubescent, 
scape terete, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate-acuminate, sep. not 
keeled, caps. 2-celled : cells \ -seeded, tube of the cor. glabrous. — 
E.B. 1559. — L. lying flat on the ground. — Meadows and pas- 
tures. P. VI.— IX. 
5. P. major (L.) ; 1. broadly ovate on longish channeled stalks, 
scapes terete, spike elongate, bracts ovate-obtuse keeled, sep. 
with a prominent dorsal nerve, caps. 2-celled : cells many-seeded. 
— E. B. 1558. — L. ascending. Seeds about 8. — /3. microstachya 
(Koch) ; scape weak shorter than the 3-nerved 1., spike few- 
flowered: fl. (scarcely more than 6) lax. Scapes sometimes 
shorter than the petioles. Root fibrous, slender. Shuttl. in 
Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. 23. — Fields and waste places. /3. in turf- 
bogs, Cunnamara, Ireland. Mr. Shuttleworth. P. VI. — VIII. 
Great Plantain. 
2. Littorella Linn. 
1. L. lacustris (L.). The only species. — E. B. 468. — Fl. white. 
Stalks of the male fl. 1—2 in. long. L. all radical, linear. — 
Margins of lakes. P. VI. VII. 
Subclass IV. MONOCHLAMYDE^E. 
With a single perianth only, that is the cal. and cor. not di- 
stinguishable, or none. 
Order LXV. AMARANTHACE.E. 
Perianth 3 — 5-parted, scarious, persistent. Stam. hypogynous. 
Ovary free, 1 -celled; ovule 1 or several, suspended from a free 
central funiculus. Style 1 or 0. Stigma simple or compound. 
Seeds lentiform. Embryo curved round central farinaceous al- 
humen. — L. without stipules or sheaths. 
1. Amaranthus. Fl. monoecious. Perianth 3 — 5-parted. 
Stam. 3 — 5. Styles 3. Caps. 1-celled, 1-seeded, bursting 
transversely. 
1. Amaranthus Linn. 
*1. A. Blitum (L.) ; fl. 3-fid 3-androus, clusters small lateral 
the upper ones in a small naked spike, st. diffuse glabrous. — 
— E. B. 2212. — Dunghills and waste places near towns, a very 
doubtful native. A. VIII. E. 
