PLANTS EXOGENAE COROLLIFLORiE. 291 
c. Seeds affixed at the tip, 
Utriculus 1 -seeded, seed erect .... STATICINAE. 20. 
Samara 2-seeded ; seed reversed . . FRAXINEAE. 35. 
d. Seeds parietal. 
Corolla not lipped GENTIANAE. 27. 
Corolla lipped OROBANCHIDEAE. 23. 
C. Pericarps many , capsular . 
Follicles 2 , t VINCAE. 29. 
Fam. I. 18. PLANTAGINEAE. Jussieu. 
Calyx 4-sepaled, persisting; corolla 1-petaled, tubular, 
scariose, persisting ; limb 4-parted ; stamens 4 ; fllaments 
inserted in the tube, alternate with the cuts, exserted, 
flaccid ; induplicate at the aestivation ; anthers 2-celled ; 
cells opposite, contiguous, opening longitudinally ; ovary 
sessile, without any girding disk, 2 or 4-celled ; ovules pel- 
tate, solitary or indefinite ; style 1, capillary; stigma his- 
pid, undivided ; pericarpium a pyxidium ; dissepiment lon- 
gitudinal, becoming free, seedbearing; seeds sessile, peltate, 
single or in pairs, or many ; shell mucilaginous ; perisperm 
fleshy, same shape as the seed ; coiculum straight, central, 
nearly as long as the perisperm ; radicle below ; plumula 
inconspicuous. — Stem herbaceous, short or scarcely any; 
hairs simple, jointed ; leaves mostly radical, crowded, stel- 
late, not cut, or toothed, often flat, and ribbed, sometimes 
semicylindrical ; scapes axillary ; flowers spiked, sessile ; 
bractea 1 to each flower. 
Ovary 2-celled ; dissepiments flat ; 
cells many-seeded Plantago. 48. 
Ovary 2-celled ; dissepiments flat ; 
cells one-seeded Arnoglossum. 49. 
Ovary 3 or 4-celled; dissepiments 4-sided; 
cells one-seeded Asterogeum. 50. 
Gen. I. 48. PLANTAGO. Pliny. Plaintain . 
Corolla 4- cut; anthers oblong; ovary 2-celled ; dissepi- 
ments flat ; cells many-seeded. — Stem scarcely any ; leaves 
crowded, radical, flat, ribbed ; scape radical. 
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