Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Sea-Plantain

SEA-PLANTAIN, or Plantago maritima, L. is an indigenous perennial, growing on the sea-coast, where it flowers in June or July.—This plant, when reduced to ashes, affords a considerable quantity of mineral alkali; which may be advantageously substituted for the Barilla, imported from Spain.

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