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glabra, caulibus crassiusculis, subsimplicibus, apice laxe polycephalis. 
Folia omnia sessilia, usque ad 9-12 poll. longa et 23-3 poll. lata, pin- 
natipartita, segmentis multijugis, sepius 2—3-partitis, lobis acerosis. 
Capitula numerosa, pedunculata, laxe cymoso-paniculata, subglobosa, 
absque spinis circiter 13 poll. diametro; involucri bractex numerosz, 
exteriores parce araneoss, e basi lata acerosz, acubus rectis vel plus 
minus arcuatis, usque ad l poll. longis ; interiores membranaceo-scariose, 
flores subzquantes, apice dilatate ; receptaculum leviter convexum, 
setis parte superiore obscure barbellatis. Flores numerosissimi, pur- 
purei; filamenta glabra. Achenia (immatura tantum visa) glabra, 
compressa, ecostata, 2-alata. 
Inthe Hariáb district, near cultivation, from 7000 to 9000 feet ; 
very common. 
No. 850 (1879) is too young for determination; but seems 
to bea state of this plant with sessile flower-heads. It is certainly 
not C. racemosa, Boiss. 
435. Cnicus lanceolatus, Willd. 
Kuram district, in fields, at 4000 feet altitude. 
970 (1879). C. sp. This was distributed as C. horridus, Bieb. It is 
not that plant, but seems to be a very near ally of Griffith's Journal 
nos. /75 and 993, distribution number 3308, and of C. echinatus, Lois. 
319, 888, 913 (1879). Saussurea candicans, C. B. Clarke, was distri- 
buted as S. hypoleuca, Spreng. 
386. Jurinea leptoloba, DC. 
Hariâb district, from 8000 to 9000 feet. Flowers from pink to 
a light purple; July. 
721, 392 (1879). Pertya Aitchisoni, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xviii. p. 72. (Plate XIX. figs. 1-5.) 
48. Crepis, sp. 
Inthe Hariáb district,in pine-forests and under the shelter of 
large rocks, at an altitude of 8500 feet. 
945 (1879). C. sp. was distributed as C. Kotschyana, Boiss.; but it is 
not that species. 
312, 562, 839, 859 (1879). Phecasium lampsanoides, Cass., distri- 
buted as Crepis sp. 
717 (1879). Lactuca Scariola, Linn., was distributed as L. auriculata, 
DC. 
329 (1879). L. auriculata, DC., was distributed as L. sp. 
997 (1879). L. macrorhiza, Hook. f., was distributed as Prenanthes sp. 
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