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64. PI.ANTAGINE.E. 
Order LXIV. PLANTAGINEiE. 
Cal. 4- (rarely 5-) j)arted, persistent, imbricate, inferior. Cor. 
4- parted, rcgidar, scarions. Stain. 4, hypogynous, or at the 
base of the tube, alternate with the segments of the cor. ; fila- 
ments at first doubled inwards. Ovaiyfree, of 1 carpel, 1 -celled, 
or with a central compressed 2 — 4-winged placenta and thus 
2 — 4-cclled. Ovules 1 , 2, or indefinite. Style 1. Caps, open- 
ing transversely. Seeds jieltate or erect. Radicle inferior. 
1. Plantago. Cal. 4-cleft. Cor. with an ovate tube and 
4-])arted reflexed limb. Caps, bursting transversely, 2 — 4- 
celled, 2 — 4-seeded. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 2. 
2. Littorella. Monoecious. Male fl. stalked; sep. 4; tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, limb 4-jiarted ; filaments very long. 
Fern. fl. sessile ; sep. 3 ; cor. oblong, narrowed iit both 
ends; style long; caps. 1-seeded. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 1. 
1 . Plantago Linn. 
1. P. Coronopus (L.); 1. linear pinnatifid or dentate, scape 
round, sj)ike 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 I 5 in. long, or 
spherical with 2 — 6 flowers. — Gravelly and sandy places near the 
sea and inland. A. ? VI. VII. Buck’ s-horn Plantain. 
2. P. maritima (L.); 1. linear grooved fleshy convex on the 
back, scape round, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate acuminate, sep. 
not winged, caps. 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 ; 3- 
nerved : nerves equidistant. Scajie 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 s])ikes sometimes 
w'ith only 3 or 4 flowers. — Sea-coast and also on lofty mountains. 
P. VI.-^IX. 
3. P. lanceolata (L.) ; 1. lanceolate attenuated at both ends 
5- nerved, scape fun’owed, spike ovate or oblong-cylindrical, 
bracts ovate acute or cusjiidate, 2 lateral sep. keeled, caps. 2 - 
celled : cells \-seeded, tube of the cor. glabrous. — E. B. 507. — 
L. nearly glabrous, lanceolate. Spike ovate. — /3. elata; 1. elon- 
gate-lanceolate, spike very long cylindrical, scape often 2 feet 
