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62. PLTJMBAGnrACEiE, 
. 63. PtANTAQlNACE^. 
1. flattish above blunt, inr.-scales broadly green on the back outer 
ones ovate-mucronate, cal.-tube imiformly hairy equalling the 
primary pedicel. H. xvii. 1148. — ^. A. piibescens (Link) ; 1. 
tlattish above often acute, inv.-scales broadly green on the back 
outer ones tiiaugular-ovate acute, cal.-tube hairy on the ribs 
otherwise glabrous equalling the primary pedicel. Statice Ar- 
meria Sm., E. B. 226. Pedicels shorter in the mountain plant. 
— y. A. puhigera /3. scotica (Boiss.); \. subtriquetrous channeled 
and dotted above, inv.-scales scarious a little thickened on the 
back, cal.-tube luiifonnly hairy twice as long as the primary 
pedicel. — S. A. durmscula (Bab.) ; 1. subtriquetrous channeled 
above, inv.-scales broadly green on the back, cal.-tube only 
haiiy on the ribs equalling the primary pedicel. — Muddy and 
Tockj sea-shores. |3. also on mountains. S. rare. P. IV. — IX. 
E. S. I. 
\^A. plantagin'ea (WUld.); I. all similar 3 — 5-veined linear- 
lanceolate with a narrow membranous margin, scapes glabrous 
rough, outer inv.-bracts triangular or lanceolate cuspidate others 
ovate or obovate with a broad membranous margin blunt, pedi- 
cel not 5 as long as the pilose-striate cal.-tube. — U.B. S. 2928. — 
Distinguished by its leaves. — Jersey. P. VI. VII.] 
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 cai-pel, 1-celled, or with a 
central compressed 2 — 4- winged placenta and thus 2 — 4-ceUed. 
Ovules 1 or 2. Style 1. Caps, opening transversely. Seeds pel- 
tate or erect. Radicle inferior. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 1 & 2. 
1. Plantago. F1. perfect. Cal. 4-cleft. Cor. with an 
ovate tube and 4-parted reflexed limb. Stam. on the corolla. 
Caps, bursting ti-ansversely, 2 — 4-celled, 2 — 4-seeded. 
2. LiTTORELLA. Monoecious. Male fl. stalked ; sep. 4; tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, limb 4-parted; stam. hyjiogynous; 
filaments very long. Fem. fl. sessile ; sep. 3 ; cor. oblong, 
nan-owed at both ends ; style long; caps. 1 -seeded. 
1. Plajtta'go Linn. Plantain. 
* Placenta 3 — ir-winged, thus forming 3 — 4 cells. Seeds 1 in 
each cell. 
1. P. Coron'optis (L.) ; 1. linear pinnatifid or dentate, scape 
terete, spike slender, bracts subulate from an ovate base erect, 
midrib of lateral sep. with a ciliate membranous toing. — E. B. 892. 
