botany, a genus of the tetrandria monogyne clas. The calyx and corolla has each four segments; the stamens are very long; and the capsule is bilocular. There are 21 species, eight of them natives of Britain.

The root, leaves, and seeds of plantain, are reckoned cooling and astringent. It is likewise accounted a great healer of fresh wounds.

Water Plantain. See Ranunculus.

Plantaris, in anatomy. See Anatomy, p. 210.