694 PLANTAGINACEiE (atkwoh DONE). plartago. 
orti. Flores spicati vel solitarii, sessiles, unibracteati; monoid 
Tel hermaphroditi; masculi eolitarii in pedunculo scapiformi 
medio unibracteolato, basi femineis plnribus sessilibus stipati. 
— Planta^meanim patria Europa et America multo rarius ve- 
teris continents pars extratropica; pauciores intra tropicos, 
miUo climate inde exules, imprimis hemisph. borealis incolse. 
I. PLAOTAGO Linn. gtn. 142, Juss . gen. 190, R. Broicn prodr.'424, DC. ft. 
jm 3 ’m 4 ° 8 ’ ft,P ' PlmU is 446 ’ En p‘ gm ' P- 348 * Barni ‘ P* 6, Nees 
lh*i. 9 127 it V&T*' ^°* C l6,C * ^ Plantag °’ Corono P U8 P ^ Uiuiri » Twrn ‘ 
Flores hermaphroditi, spicativel capitati, singulibracteati. Calyx 4-phyl- 
foI,0 J w SQbffiquahbus. Corolla tubulosa, A-loba, scariosa, persistens,m- 
terdum fructu adnata. Stamina 4, exserta vel inclusa; Blamenta flaccida • 
antherae cordate. Ovarium 2-4-loculare, loculis \ -8-ovulatis, Stylus sim¬ 
plex. Lapsula membranacea, ad basin circumscisse dehiscens, pvxidata 
dissepimentp, : demumlibero, faciebus seminifero. Semina hilo ventrali in 
rapsolis polyspermia parva, angulosa, ia2-spermiscymbiformia, testa _ 
alagmoso-pallida, olivaceavel fused. - Herb® cosmopolite in regionibus 
temperate frequenUus obviffi, acaules vel caulescentes rarissime suffrutes- 
centes glabrae vel pubescentes aut Ianate; foliis in acaulibus confertis 
rosulatis m caulescentibus alternis vel opposite, integris vel dentatis aut 
pmnaUfidwacjsis, nunc plams et nervosis, nunc semileretibus; pedunculis 
; flortbus dense spicatis, spicis cyiindricis velglobosis. 
Sectio 1 . POLYNEURON. 
ta perennes, acaules; folia nervosa. — Corolla parva foseescens: stamina 
. poiyaptfma ( 6 ~ 18 )’» parva obscure angulosa, hinoplanius- 
ssepms erectis vel asceadentibus, spiels cjlindricria 
calyce subaequalibua subdeltoideis anguste marginatis, foliolis calycinis'S 
ovatis obtuse foceseenhbus, capmK conoideS ssepins violaceo-tinctS 2-locu- 
tot oUvacei ‘- <D Ia P ratia * ruderatis 
tot. emropse, m umv. orbem bodie diffusa. P. major, Trag. stirp. hist. - 
Sto r ^T d - ** 123 ’ r>0d ’ pempt ‘ 107 > Moris - ^ 3?258, Matth. 
hist p. 878, Willd. r 
n. p. 81 
1, P- 
. 8, c: 
. 1558, “ 
n. 253, Bourg. Canar. 955 
Am. 294, Bertero pi. Chil 
lifusa Bernh. ind. sem. P 
i h. Mus. Par.) 
im inferae inciso-Iobatis dentieula 
“ Came. mo f Zoil. et Moritzi 829 , 
n. 5o3. P. aredea Trev. hid. sem. 1829 
«I%ia<»aJ&eqmt tols. (aon Baumg.) (y - 
a •muata, foliis magnus e 
H4. P. latifolia i 
