. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 248 PLANTAGINACEAE. Vol. 8. Plantago Purshii K & S. Pursh's Plantain. Fig. 3905. Plantago Purshii R. & S. Syst. 3 : 120. 1818. Plantago gnaphalioides Nutt. Gen. 1 : 100. 1818. Plantago patagonica var. gnaphalioides A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 269. 1856. Annual, woolly or silky all over, pale green; scapes slender, 2'-is' tall, longer than the leaves. Lea
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 248 PLANTAGINACEAE. Vol. 8. Plantago Purshii K & S. Pursh's Plantain. Fig. 3905. Plantago Purshii R. & S. Syst. 3 : 120. 1818. Plantago gnaphalioides Nutt. Gen. 1 : 100. 1818. Plantago patagonica var. gnaphalioides A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 269. 1856. Annual, woolly or silky all over, pale green; scapes slender, 2'-is' tall, longer than the leaves. Leaves ascending, linear, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed into margined petioles, 1-3- nerved, ii"-4" wide, entire, or very rarely with a few small teeth; spikes very dense, cylindric, obtuse, i'-s' long, about 3" in diameter, exceed- ingly woolly; bracts rigid, equalling or slightly exceeding the flowers; flowers perfect but heter- ogenous, many of them cleistogamous; sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious-margined; corolla-lobes broadly ovate, spreading; stamens 4; pyxis ob- long, obtuse, ii" long, little exceeding the calyx, 2-seeded, circumscissile at about the middle; seeds convex on the back, deeply concave on the face. On dry plains and prairies, Indiana to western On- tario, British Columbia, Texas and northern Mexico. Locally adventive eastward. May-Aug. Salt-and- pepper-plant. 9. Plantago aristata Michx. Large-bracted Plantain. Fig. 3906. Plantago aristata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 95. 1803. Plantago patagonica var. aristata A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 269. 1856. Annual, dark green, villous, or glabrate; scapes stout, erect, 6'-i8' tall, exceeding the leaves. Leaves linear, acuminate at the apex, entire, narrowed into slender petioles, sometimes prominently 3-ribbed ii"-4" wide; spikes very dense, cylindric, i'-6' long, pubescent but not woolly; bracts puberulent, linear, elongated, ascending, the lower often 10 times as long as the flowers; flowers
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