63. PLANTAGINACE^. 
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Order LXIII. PLANTAGINACE^. 
Cal. 4-parted, persistent, imbricate, inferior. Cor. 4-parted, 
regular, scarious. Stam. 4, hypogynous, or at the base of the 
tube, alternate with the segments of the cor. ; filaments at first 
doubled inwards. Ovary free, of 1 carpel, 1-celled ; or 2 — 4- 
celled. Seeds peltate or erect. Style 1. Caps, opening trans- 
versely (or indehiscent in Littorella). Radicle inferior. 
1. Plantago. F1. perfect. Cal. 4-cleft. Cor. with an ovate 
tube and 4-parted reflexed limb. Stam. on the corolla. 
Caps, bursting transversely, 2 — 4-celled, 2 — 4-seeded. 
2. LiTTOKELLA. MoncBcious. Male fl. stalked ; sep. 4 ; tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, limb 4-pai-ted ; stam. hypogynous ; 
filaments very long. Fem. 11. sessile ; sep. 3 ; cor. oblong, 
narrowed at both ends ; style long ; caps. 1 -seeded. 
1. Planta'go Linn. Plantain. 
* Placenta 3 — i-winged, thus forming 3 — 4 cells. Seeds 1 in 
each cell. 
1. P. Coron'opus (L.) ; 1. linear pinnatifid or dentate, scape 
terete, spike slendei*, bracts subulate from an ovate base erect, 
midrib of lateral sep. with a ciliate membranous ving. — E. B. 
892. — Tube of the cor. glabrous. Extremely variable in size 
and amount of pubescence, woolly or nearly glabrous. L. vary- 
ing in width, nearly entire, or even doubly pinnatifid. Spikes 
slender, \h in. long, many -flowered ; or tipherical with 2 — 6 
flowers. — [Extreme forms : — Var. ceratophylia (Rap.), luxuriant with broad 
3— S-relned 1. ; var. maritima (G. & G.) with nearly erect fleshy 1.; and var. 
pygmcea (Lange), dwarf with short few-flowered spikes and almost entire 1.] — 
Gravelly barren spots near the sea and inland. A. 1 VI. VII. 
Puck's horn Plantain. E. S. I. 
** Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 1 in each cell. Cor. -tube 
pubescent. 
2. P. marit'ima (L.) ; 1. linear channelled fleshy convex on 
the back, scape terete, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate mucronate, 
Sep. not u'inged. — P. B. 175. — L. usually woolly at their base, 
nearly flat and broad or linear, toothed or quite entire, glabrous 
or hairy ; 3-veined, veins equidistant. Scape glabrous or hairy. 
Caps, oblong- conical. Very variable in size. In a Cornish 
variety the 1. are only 1—2 lines in length and semicylindrical, 
