. Flowers of the field. Botany. 402 PLANTAGIi^E.'E Order are common in Great Britain as wayside, meadow, and maritime plants, and some of them are almost world-wide in their distribution. The seeds abound in a tasteless mucilage, which has been used as a substitute for Linseed in medicine, and to stiffen muslin. 1. PL.'iNTAGO.—Terrestrial plants with perfect flowers in spikes. 2. LiTTORELLA.—W^atersidc plants w'wh stamens 2,nd carpels in different flowers; staminate flowers solitary, stalked; carpellate flowers sessile. r. (I'lantain). '—Terrestrial herbs with perfect flojcers in spi
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 402 PLANTAGIi^E.'E Order are common in Great Britain as wayside, meadow, and maritime plants, and some of them are almost world-wide in their distribution. The seeds abound in a tasteless mucilage, which has been used as a substitute for Linseed in medicine, and to stiffen muslin. 1. PL.'iNTAGO.—Terrestrial plants with perfect flowers in spikes. 2. LiTTORELLA.—W^atersidc plants w'wh stamens 2,nd carpels in different flowers; staminate flowers solitary, stalked; carpellate flowers sessile. r. (I'lantain). '—Terrestrial herbs with perfect flojcers in spikes ; c'alyx 4-cleft, the segments *efie,\ed; corolla tubular, .with 4 spreading lobes ; stamens 4, very long ; ovary 2—4-chambered ; capsule 'splitting all round. (Name, the Classical Latin name.) I. P. major ((Ireater .Plantain, Way-bread.) — iLecwes radical, ascending, broadly oblong, on long, tehannelled stalks, 3 — 7- ribbed ; flou'crs in a very long, tapering s|)ike, on a i^hort, cylindrical stalk; anthers purple; capsule 2- chamlaered, 8—i6-seeded. T-Borders of fields and waysides ; abundant. Well iknown for its spikes of fruit, the seeds in which Fl. ALiy— FLANT.\GO (ii*/ food of catrc-birds arc a favourite Perennial. 2. P. media (Ildury I'laiilain, Lamiys-tongue).—Leaves down)', broadly elliptical, on short, Hat stalks, lying so close to the ground as to destroy nil vegetation beneath, ami even to lea\e the impres- sion of their 5 — (j ribs on the ground ; flo':cers in a close, cylin- drical spike, shorter than that of P. nidjor, but on a longer, cylindrical, downy jx'duncle, Iragrant, .hid conspieuous from their lilac bracts, and filaments, and cream-coloured anthers ; capsule 2-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexan
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