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— Tube of the cor. glabrous. Extremely variable in size and 
amount of pubescence, woolly or nearly glabrous. L. varying in 
width, nearly entire, or even doubly pinnatifid. Spikes slender, 
li in. long, many-flowered ; or spherical with 2 — 6 flowers. — 
^ Gravelly barren spots near the sea and inland. A. ? VI. VII. 
Buck's-horn Plantain. E. S. I. 
** Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 1 in each cell. Car. -tube 
jntbescent. 
2. P. marit 'ima (L.) ; 1. linear channeled fleshy convex on 
the back, scape terete, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate mucronate, 
sep. not winffed. — E. B. 175. St. 88. 4. — L. usually woolly at 
their base, nearly flat and broad or linear, toothed or quite entire, 
glabrous or hairy ; 3-veiued, veins equidistant. Scape glabrous 
or hairy. Caps, oblong-conical. Xerj variable in size. In a 
Comish variety the 1. are only 1 — 2 lines in length and semi- 
cylindrical, scapes very shoit, spikes sometimes only 3- or 4- 
flowered. — The mountain plant is apparently P. serpentina (Vill. ) ; 
its caps, is ovoid and blunt, bracts lanceolate acute perhaps not 
keeled, 1. not channeled. It is probably a distinct species.— Sea- 
coast and on mountains. P. M. — IX. E. S. I. 
*** Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 1 in each cell. Cor.-tiihe 
glabrous. 
3. P. lanceoldta (L.) ; I. lanceolate attenuate at both ends 5- 
veined, scape furrowed, spike ovate or oblong-cylindrical, bracts 
ovate acute or cuspidate, 2 lateral sep. keeled. — E. P. 507. — 
L. nearly glabrous, lanceolate, length 4 — 12 tim-^s- the breadth. 
Anth. and filaments yellow. A veiy variable plant. Spikes 
globose, scape and 1. silky, neck woolly, in sandy places ; spikes 
very long, 1. veiy long and broad, in rich damp soil. — Meadows, 
pastures and sandy places. P. VI. VII. Mibwort. E. S. I. 
4. P. media (L.) ; I. elliptic-ovate sessile or with short broad 
stalks pubescent, scape terete, spike cylindrical, bracts ovate- 
acuminate, sep. not keeled. — £. B. 1559. St. 87. 8. — L. usually 
lying flat on the ground, sometimes shortly lanceolate and as- 
cending. Anth. yellow, filaments purple.— Meadows and pas- 
tures. P. VI. — IX. LamV s-tongue. E. I. 
•*** Placenta 2-winged. Seeds 2—4 in each cell. Cor. -tube 
glabrous. 
5. P. major (L.) ; 1. broadly ovate on longish channeled stalks, 
scape terete, spike long, bracts ovate keeled about as long as 
the cal., Sep. with a prominent dorsal rib. — E.B. 1558. St. 87. 6 
xvii. 1127. — L. ascending. Anth. purple. Seeds about 8. 
— /3. microstachya (Koch); scape weak shorter than 1., spike lax, 
3— 6-flowered.— Fields and waste places. i3. Tui-f-bogs, Conne- 
mara, Ireland. P. VIII. Way-bread. E. S. I 
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