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 102nd meridian . 248 PLAXTAGIXACEAE. Vol. 8. Plantago Purshii R. & S. Purshs Plantain. Fig. 3905. Plantago Purshii R. & S. Syst. 3 : 120. gnaphalioides Nutt. Gen. i: 100. patagonica var. gnaphalioides A. Gray, 2, 269. 1856. Annual, woolly or silky all over, pale green;scapes slender. 2-15 tall, longer than the ascending, linear, acute or
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 102nd meridian . 248 PLAXTAGIXACEAE. Vol. 8. Plantago Purshii R. & S. Purshs Plantain. Fig. 3905. Plantago Purshii R. & S. Syst. 3 : 120. gnaphalioides Nutt. Gen. i: 100. patagonica var. gnaphalioides A. Gray, 2, 269. 1856. Annual, woolly or silky all over, pale green;scapes slender. 2-15 tall, longer than the ascending, linear, acute or acuminate atthe apex, narrowed into margined petioles, 1-3-nerved, li-^ wide, entire, or very rarely witha few small teeth; spikes very dense, cylindric,obtuse, 1-5 long, about 3 in diameter, exceed-ingly woolly; bracts rigid, equalling or slightlyexceeding the flowers; flowers perfect but heter-ogonous, many of them cleistogamous; sepalsoblong, obtuse, scarious-margined; corolla-lobesbroadly ovate, spreading; stamens 4; pjxis ob-long, obtuse, il long, little exceeding the calyx,2-seeded, circumscissile at about the middle; seedsconvex on the back, deeply concave on the face. On dry plains and prairies, Indiana to western On-tario, Bri
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