TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Plantago. 231 
Var. 1. (/3 Linn.) Leaves three-ribbed. \ 
Tab. Ic. 731 — Ger. 339— J. B. iii. 505. 3. 
Much smaller than the preceding. Leaves rough. Stalk not more than one 
inch and a half high. Spike small in proportion. (Common in corn-fields,, 
Norfolk and Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. E.) About Shirehampton and 
Kingsweston, Bristol. 
Var. 2. Toothed. Petiv. Leaves with large teeth towards the base. St. 
Pet. 4. 2— Park. 494. 5. d. 
Var. 3. (^Rosea. Bauh. Var. 8. Sm. E.) Spike leafy. Flower-leaves dis¬ 
posed m a pyramidal or rose-like form. 
Ger. 340. 5— H. Ox. viii. 15. 3. b. c. — Park. 494. 5. b. — J. B. iii. 503* * 1— 
Ger. Em. 420. 4, upper branch — Pet. 4. 4, upper branch. 
Park. 494. 5. c. — H. Ox. viii. 15. 3. a. — J. B. iii. 503. 1— Pet. 4. 4, lower 
branch. 
(The rose-like and the pyramidal often rise from the same root. They are 
sometimes met with in gardens, and in rich soil greatly increase in size. 
Ripton, Huntingdonshire. Mr. Woodward. On Dudley Lime rocks. 
Aug. E.) 
Var. 4 . Panicled. Panicula sparsa. Ray. Bauh. Var. y. Sm. Stalk branch¬ 
ing into a panicle. 
Bod. 107. 2— Lob. Obs. 162. 4>—Ger. Em. 420. 6—J. B. iii. 503. 2— Park. 
494. 5. a. — Pet. 4. 5— H. Ox. viii. 15. 4. 
Ripton, Huntingdonshire. Mr. Woodward. E.) Bedingham, near Bun¬ 
gay. Mr. Stone. 
P. me'dia. Leaves egg-shaped,' pubescent: spike and stalk cylindrical: 
(seeds solitary. E.) 
Curt. 252— FI. Ban. 581— {E. Bot. 1559. E.)— Wale. — Cam. Epit. 262— 
Fuchs. 39— J. B. iii. 504. 1— Matth. 480— Clus. ii. 109. 1— Bod. 107. 4— 
Lob. Obs. 162. 3— Ger. Em. 419. 2— J. B. iii. 504. 2— H. Ox. viii. 15. 6 
— Pet. 4. 3— Ger. 338. 2 —Trag. 226. I—Park. 493. 3. 
{Root woody. E.) Stalk from five to ten inches high; cylindrical. Flow¬ 
ering spike very dense, shorter than the naked part of the stalk. Leaves 
(all radical, E.) mostly five-ribbed, often toothed, spear-egg-shaped, or 
quite egg-shaped; sometimes variegated with pale yellow stripes. 
Hoary Plantain. Road sides, and pastures, mostly in chalky or marley 
soil. The variegated kind at Hawford Bridge, near Worcester. Stokes. 
P. June—Aug.* 
P. lanceola'ta. (Leaves spear-shaped; tapering at each end : spike 
nearly egg-shaped, woolly at the base; flower-stalk angular. E.) 
{E. Bot. 507. E.)— Curt. ii. 15— FI. Ban. 437— Blackw. 14— Wale. — Bod. 
107. 3— Lob. Obs. 163. 1 -—Ger. Em. 422. 1— Park. 496. 1— H. Ox. viii. 
prepared from them. Hence Plantain is denominated Slan-lus y the i( Healing Plant.' 1 
The seed is a favourite food of birds ; and, as an alterative, is considered essential to the 
health of canary-birds and others confined in cages. E.) 
* (A high authority justly denounces the Hoary Plantain as “ a great and lasting nui¬ 
sance in fine grass-plats,” and states that it is most effectually destroyed by a drop of 
vitriolic acid on the crown of the root, which it never long survives ; but we fear that the 
remedy will be found applicable only to such lawns as may be sheared with scissars* E») 
