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 . Genus i. II. Plantago pusilla 3908. PLANTAIN FAMILY Slender Plantago pusilla Nutt. Gen. i: 100. 1818. Annual, puberulent; scapes filiform, 2-/ high,longer than the Hnear-fiHform, mostly entire, blunt-pointed obscurely i-nerved leaves. Leaves about 5wide; spikes slender, linear, rather loosely flowered,¥-3long, i¥-2 thick; flowers imperfectly dioeciousor p
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 . Genus i. II. Plantago pusilla 3908. PLANTAIN FAMILY Slender Plantago pusilla Nutt. Gen. i: 100. 1818. Annual, puberulent; scapes filiform, 2-/ high,longer than the Hnear-fiHform, mostly entire, blunt-pointed obscurely i-nerved leaves. Leaves about 5wide; spikes slender, linear, rather loosely flowered,¥-3long, i¥-2 thick; flowers imperfectly dioeciousor polygamous; sepals oblong, obtuse, about as longas the bract, scarious-margined; corolla-lobes of themore fertile plants becoming erect over the pyxis;stamens 2; pyxis ovoid-oblong, obtuse, one-fourth toone-third longer than the calyx, about 4-seeded, cir-cumscissile at about the middle; seeds nearly flat onboth sides. In dry sandy soil, Massachusetts to Georgia, Illinois,Kansas and Texas. April-Aug. Plantago elongata Pursh, to which this was referred in our first edition, differs by largerseeds and saccate bracts, and enters our western limits in Nebraska. 12. Plantago heterophylla Nutt. Many-seeded Plantain. Fig. 3909. Plantago heterophylla Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.)5: 177. 1833-37.
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