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Schlechtendal[115] gives a summary of the various kinds of malformation affecting the inflorescence in Plantago_, and divides them into five groups, as follows:--1st, bracteate, wherein the inferior bracts are quite leaf-like, as is frequently seen in Plantago major_.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
They were usually made as amulets for good luck and this bracteate shows a coiled animal.— Latest Isle of Wight News
Schlechtendal's bracteate and polystachyate divisions.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Schlechtendal [115] gives a summary of the various kinds of malformation affecting the inflorescence in _Plantago_, and divides them into five groups, as follows: -- 1st, bracteate, wherein the inferior bracts are quite leaf-like, as is frequently seen in _Plantago major_. 2nd, roseate; bracts leafy in tufts or rosettes, without flowers, as in the so-called rose plantain, common in old-fashioned gardens in this country. 3rd, polystachyate; spike-branched, bearing other spikes in the axils of the bracts, as in _P. lanceolata_, _P. maritima_, &c. 4th, proliferous, where the flower-stalk bears a rosette, a spike, or a head with other rosettes. 5th, paniculate, in which the inflorescence has become a much-branched pyramidal panicle, covered with little bracts, and with very rudimentary flowers. [— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
It is rather singular that each species of _Plantago_ seems to have its own perverse mode of growth; for instance, the bracteate, polystachyate and paniculate forms are almost exclusively confined to _P. major_, the roseate form to _P. media_, the proliferous form to _P. lanceolata_.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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