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note : “ The plant is conspicuous in the field on account of the 
smooth, bright-green upper surfaces of the basal leaves. The lower 
surfaces, however, are of a clear-white color, making with the bright- 
green a marked contrast. Another characteristic difference between 
the two plants, and one which is better brought out in the drawing, 
is in the cauline leaves. In A. plantaginea , as we have seen, the 
white-tomentose cauline leaves are lanceolate, acute and rather 
remote. In A. parlinii , on the other hand, the thicker oblong obtuse 
or acutish cauline leaves are more crowded below, and they are not 
white-tomentose, but green above and sordid-pubescent beneath, 
and covered on both faces with elongated [stipitate] glands. The 
stems, which in A. plantaginea are green, in A. parlinii are gener¬ 
ally purple ; and surely no one seeing the plant would think of 
Plukenet’s ‘ White Plantain (i. e.) Plantago Candida.’ ” 
The striking white pubescence of the plant taken for A. planta¬ 
ginea , and its strong habital resemblance to the Plukenet figure 
were considered nearly convincing evidence, and in discussing the 
plant at that time I had no thought but that Professor Greene had 
arrived at the same conclusion. Apparently he did lean then 
somewhat toward this decision, but, in a late number of his jour¬ 
nal, 1 he described as a new species the white-pubescent plant, 
giving it the name A. decipiens , and leaving to represent A. planta¬ 
ginea a stouter plant with more coriaceous basal leaves which are 
bright green and quite glabrous on the upper surfaces. In the 
same article where these plants are discussed by Professor Greene 
my A. parlinii was recognized as a distinct species. After corre¬ 
sponding with Professor Greene on the subject and receiving from 
him specimens of what he called A. pdantaginea and also his A. 
decipiens , I found it impossible to reach his conclusions. The 
plant which he described as A. decipiens is exactly the form which 
I maintained was A. plantaginea . It is characterized, as Professor 
Greene emphasizes, by the white pubescence of the upper leaf- 
surfaces, and it also has small scattered cauline leaves, i. e., it has 
the most striking characters of Plukenet’s “ Plantago Candida.” 
On the other hand, the glabrous-leaved plant, which Professor 
Greene referred to Plukenet’s figure and description, is hardly 
distinguishable from what I have described and Mr. Faxon has 
figured as A. parlinii. The stems, though, are greener, and the 
broader involucral bracts white-tipped. The remarkable point is 
1 Pittonia, vol. 3, p. 278. 
