Plantago major

Plantago major

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Plantago major L.
Engl.: common plantain, broad-leafed plantain, great plantain, greater plantain, plantain, rib-grass, ribwort, ripple-grass, waybread, white man's foot.
Deu.: Breitwegerich, Grosser Wegerich, Wegbreit.
Fran.: grand plantain, plantain majeur.
Sven.: groblad, gårdsgroblad, vägbräddblad, åkergroblad.
Suom.: piharatamo.

Pre-Linnaean: [Woodville:] Plantago, Plantago foliis ovatis glabris.
Plantago foliis petiolatis, ovatis, glabris; spica cylindrica. Hal. Stirp. Helv.
Plantago latifolia sinuata. Bauh. Pin.
Plantago simpliciter dicta. Raii Hist. Plant.
Plantago latifolia vulgaris. Parkinson
Plantago vulgaris. Gerard.
Plantago Major. Curtis, Flor. Lond. Relhan. Flor. Cantab., Withering, Bot. Arrang.

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Plantago.

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Classic texts: Scudder's Materia Medica, 1898: Narcotics.

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