English: Curtis, William; Darton, William; Edwards, Sydenham; Kilburn, William; Sansom, Francis; Sowerby, James; White, Benjamin: Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts. volume 2, ca 1777
Plantago lanceolata, Narrow Leaved Plantain or Ribwort (Plate 10, original text by OCR)
BRACTEÆ or floral leaf, placed under each floscule, oval-pointed, and concave, fig. 1.
CALYX : a Perianthium of three unequal leaves, the two fide ones boat-fhaped, and pointed, fig. 3; the back leaf oval, obtufe, emarginate, fig. 2, and marked with two green lines.
COROLLA monopetalous, tubular, membranous, of a form betwixt globular and cylindrical ; the limb quadripartite ; the fegments of an oval pointed shape, and spreading, on the removal of the calyx turning back, fig. 4.
STAMINA : four very long filaments : Antheræ white or yellowish, fig. 5.
PISTILLUM : Germen oval : Style filiform, half the length of the stamina: Stigma simple, fig. 6.
SEED - VESSEL : an oval Capsule of two cavities, dividing horizontally in the middle, the dissepimentum or partition loose, fig. 7, 8.
SEEDS two, oblong, shining, of an amber colour, convex on one fide and concave on the other, fig. 9, 10, 11.