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Plantaginaceae (from the genus Plantago, the Latin name of the plant). Plantain Family. Fig. 54. Annual or perennial herbs: leaves alternate or opposite: flowers bisexual, or rarely unisexual, regular; calyx 4-cleft; corolla 4-lobed, gamopetalous, hypogynous, scarious, imbricated; stamens 4, epipetalous or hypogynous, exserted, alternate with the corolla-lobes; ovary superior, 1-2-celled, rarely 4-celled; ovules 1 to many in each cell; style and stigma 1: fruit a circumscissile capsule, or an indehiscent nutlet, invested by the persistent calyx; seeds usually peltate.
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Plantaginaceae (from the genus Plantago, the Latin name of the plant). Plantain Family. Annual or perennial herbs: leaves alternate or opposite: flowers bisexual, or rarely unisexual, regular; calyx 4-cleft; corolla 4-lobed, gamopetalous, hypogynous, scarious, imbricated; stamens 4, epipetalous or hypogynous, exserted, alternate with the corolla-lobes; ovary superior, 1-2-celled, rarely 4-celled; ovules 1 to many in each cell; style and stigma 1: fruit a circumscissile capsule, or an indehiscent nutlet, invested by the persistent calyx; seeds usually peltate.
    
Three genera and about 200 species, of which all but 3 belong to the genus Plantago, are distributed over the whole earth. The centers of distribution are the Mediterranean region and the Andes. This is a very distinct gamopetalous family of doubtful relationship, possibly allied to the Labiatae.
 
Three genera and about 200 species, of which all but 3 belong to the genus Plantago, are distributed over the whole earth. The centers of distribution are the Mediterranean region and the Andes. This is a very distinct gamopetalous family of doubtful relationship, possibly allied to the Labiatae.