TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Plantago. 233 
Sea Plantain. (Welsh: Bara can y defaid; Llyriad y mor; Gwerog. 
E.) Sea coast, (but by no means confined thereto; abundant, according 
to Prof. Hooker, by some fresh-water lakes, as Loch Lomond; and some¬ 
times on the sides of mountains. E.) Near Barnard Castle, thirty-five 
miles from the sea. Mr. Robson. (North Shore, near Liverpool. Dr. 
Bostock. Frequent on the coast of Durham and Northumberland. 
Mr. Winch. Fields about Port Gwylan, Carnarvonshire, covered with 
it. Penn. Wales, ii. 200. E.) P. June—July.* 
Var. 2. Narrow-leaved. Leaves thread-shaped. 
A much smaller plant than the preceding, and flowering earlier. I found 
it in the Isle of Wight, and going out of blossom in the beginning of 
June. Leaves about two inches long. Stalk cylindrical, slender, not 
striated, four inches high. Spike one inch long, cylindrical, not closely 
crowded with florets. 
(Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) 
Var. 3. Flat-leaved. Leaves flat, ribbed, very sparingly toothed. 
J. B. Hist. iii. 506. 2, well represents the leaves, hut the spikes are too short . 
Leaves five inches long, flat, five-ribbed. Stalk about five inches high, 
cylindrical. Spike two inches long, cylindrical, bent at a right angle 
before flowering. Floral-leaves with a mid-rib, but not keeled. 
Near the Bristol Channel. Rev. G. Swayne. Sea coast, Yarmouth. Mr. 
Woodward. 
(A larger variety, but much resembling the above, with leaves approaching 
to spear-shaped, we have gathered on the rocks east of Teignmouth. E.) 
Var. 4. Mountain. Huds. var. y. 
J. B. Hist. iii. 506. 2. 
Smaller than either of the above varieties. The leaves from two to three 
inches high, one eighth of an inch wide. 
On Cwn Idwell. Mr. Griffith. 
P. coro'nopus. (Leaves linear, pinnatifid; flower-stalks cylindrical; 
capsule of four single-seeded cells. E.) 
FI. Dan. 272— (F. Bot. 892. E.)— Pet. 4. 1©— Fuchs. U9—Trag. 99— J. B. 
iii. 509— Blackw. 460— Matth. 493— Dod. 109. 1— Lob. Ohs. 239. 2— Ger . 
427. I—Park. 502. 1— H. Ox. viii. 17. 31. 
Spike truly pendulous before it flowers. Linn. Leaves wing-cleft, the seg¬ 
ments very unequal; spreading flat on the ground in form of a star. 
Stalk from four to seven inches high. Spikes one and a half to two inches 
long, cylindrical (numerous, dense, on spreading hairy stalks, E.) 
Calyx , segments wrapping over each other, deeply divided, fringed at the 
outer edge. Anthers terminated by a small spear-shaped transparent 
membrane. 
* (Approved as a favourite and fattening food of sheep ; and probably so esteemed by 
our ancestors, the first of the ancient British designations above cited meaning te the sheep’s 
favourite morseland the last, “ the suet-producing.” Mr. Davies also remarks, in 
regard to larger quadrupeds, as experienced in districts where it abounds (in that part of 
Carnarvonshire called Llevn), “ cattle which have been reduced in condition, from what¬ 
ever cause, have recovered in a manner almost miraculous, by grazing on grounds chiefly 
productive of this vegetable.” Welsh Bot. An effect which may probably be attributed to 
the saline particles with which the plant is impregnated, as experienced in other instances. 
