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high and leaves H foot long. This is not the true P. altissima (L.) 
according to Koch (Syn. ed. 2. 686.). I have therefore changed 
the name of the variety. — y. sphcBrostachya (W. and G.) ; 1. 
linear-lanceolate 3-nerved, s])ike globose, scapes 2 — 3 times as 
long as the 1. terete or slightly sulcate. Root producing long 
lateral fibres, neek clothed with dense wool. Scape and 1. with 
silky adpressed hairs. — a. and (3. in meadow's and pastures, 
y. sandy places. P. VI. VII. Ribwort Plantain. 
4. P. media (L.) ; 1. elliptical with short broad stalks pubes- 
cent, scape terete, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate-acuminate, sep. 
not keeled, caps. 2-celled: cells 1 -seeded, tube of the cor. gla- 
brous. — E. B. 1559. — L. usually lying flat on the groimd.— 
Meadows and pastoes. P. VI. — IX. 
5. P. major (L.); 1. broadly ovate on longish channeled stalks, 
sca})es terete, spike elongate, bracts ovate-obtuse keeled about 
as long as the cal., sep. with a prominent dorsal nerve, caps. 
2- celled: cells many-seeded.— E. B. 1558. — L. ascending. Seeds 
about 8. — /3. microstachya (Koch) ; scape w’eak 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 May. 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.). — E. B. 468. — Fl. white. Stalks of the 
male fl. 1 — 2 in. long. L. all radical, linear. — Margins of lakes. 
P. VI. VII. 
Subdivision IV. MONOCHLAMYDE^. 
With a single perianth only, that is the cal. and cor. not di- 
stinguishable, or none. 
Order LXV. AMARANTHACE^. 
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. Embi-yo curved round central farinaceous al- 
bumen. — 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. 
