. Botanical gazette. Plants. ,,';.:^;^v)MBIA BOTANICAiiMl2^;|p^^ -\ Vol. 3 MAY, 1878. No. 5 The Two Waysidk Plantains, By Asa Ghay.âI wish to call the altcnlion of Bot- anists to flif! Connnou Plantains of the country, and to make a public, though tardy expression of thanks to Mr. A. Commons, of Ccntreville, Delaware. I send you, hcie with, for insertion, his letter to me, which the date shows to have been long unattended to. I have in some way or other postponed its consideration until now, when the re- view of Uic genus for the i)art of my Synoptical Flora of JS^orth America, now in press
. Botanical gazette. Plants. ,,';.:^;^v)MBIA BOTANICAiiMl2^;|p^^ -\ Vol. 3 MAY, 1878. No. 5 The Two Waysidk Plantains, By Asa Ghay.âI wish to call the altcnlion of Bot- anists to flif! Connnou Plantains of the country, and to make a public, though tardy expression of thanks to Mr. A. Commons, of Ccntreville, Delaware. I send you, hcie with, for insertion, his letter to me, which the date shows to have been long unattended to. I have in some way or other postponed its consideration until now, when the re- view of Uic genus for the i)art of my Synoptical Flora of JS^orth America, now in press, brouglit the subject directly before me: Centreville, Del., Dec. 20th, 1870. PitoF. A GUAY: Dear Sir:â I have a few specimens 1 wish to submit and request you would examine and name for me. Two of them are deviations from the usual form; iUioUwr, II rididar/ii, is probably a good species. However, the specimens will prove whether it be entitled to that distinction. To me it seems sufficiently marked in its characters to deserve being considered as such. I will send a package in a few days made up most largely of the two fofms (as I will call them at present for convenience) of Pldiddfjo; the Pkudano' nuijor, L., or smaller form, and another, a larger one, ivliich resembles it in appearance but distinct in character. This larger form is the most abundant and common one of the two growing here. The smaller one, P. miijor, being the rarer and less common one, and does not seem to pri)i)agale or extend itself so rapidly. A brief comparison of the two is given in a ^ellarate paper which is en- closed. In 1864, when I tirsl observed the two forms, I had got the impression that the larger one was the P. major, L., Init have since ascertained this to be erroneous. Others liere, I am constrained to believe, may have previously entertained the same view. I infer this, however, because the larger form is here so generally common, while the other is not. Therefore, they are most li
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