. 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. Plantago halophila Bicknell, of saline situations along the Atlantic coast, is densely pubescent, but otherwise like this species. A similar race occurs about lakes in northern New York. Plantago asiatica L. is a boreal race with thinner nearly erect leaves. 2. Plantago Rugelii Dene. Rugel's or Pale Plantain. Fig. 3899. Plantago Rugelii in DC. Prodr. 13 : Part
. 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. Plantago halophila Bicknell, of saline situations along the Atlantic coast, is densely pubescent, but otherwise like this species. A similar race occurs about lakes in northern New York. Plantago asiatica L. is a boreal race with thinner nearly erect leaves. 2. Plantago Rugelii Dene. Rugel's or Pale Plantain. Fig. 3899. Plantago Rugelii in DC. Prodr. 13 : Part i, 700. 1852. Similar to the preceding species, the spikes less dense, at least toward the base, usually long-atten- uate at the summit, sometimes 5" thick. Sepals ob- long, prominently keeled on the back, the margins green or scarious; pyxis oblong-cylindric, 2' -3" long, twice as long as the sepals, circumscissile much below the middle and entirely within the calyx, 4-10-seeded; stamens 4. In fields, woods and waste places, New Brunswick to Ontario, South Dakota,'Florida, Kansas and Texas. Petioles commonly purple at the base. Usually brighter green and with thinner leaves than P. major. This species, or the preceding one, was known to the Indians as " White-man'; Silk-plant. June-Sept. 3. Plantago lanceolata L. Ribwort. Rib- grass. English, Buck, or Buckthorn Plantain. Snake, Lance-leaved, or Ripple Plantain. Fig. 3900. Plantago lanceolata L. Sp. PI. 113. 1753. Perennial or biennial, more or less pubescent; rootstock mostly short, with tufts of brown hairs at the bases of the leaves. Leaves narrowly ob- long-lanceolate, mostly erect, shorter than the scapes, entire, acute or acuminate at the apex, gradually narrowed into petioles, 3-5-ribbed, 2'- 12' long, 3"-i2" wide; scapes slender, channelled, sometimes 24° tall; spikes very dense, at first short and ovoid, becoming cylindric, blunt and 4'-4' long in fruit, 4"-6" thick; flow
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