290 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with ALTERNATE HXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lear MarGins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
Solidago 
Virga-aurea, 
Rhyncospermum 
verticillatum, 
Hukmandaz. 
ComposirT™. 
BBs ont. 248, 
Himalaya, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Aster Pseudamellus, 
CoMPOSITA. 
Ree cl. 11, 249) 
Himalaya, 
8-9,000 ft. 
Lahul (Jaeschke). 
Aster Amellus, 
Michaelmas Daisy, 
Composit”. 
Baie wi. 249, 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Cultivated. 
Aster molliusculus, 
ComposiITm. 
PB, Mol: 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
medium size to large, velvety, branches slender, 
spreading ; leaves 1-3 in., lanceolate, long-pointed, thin, 
narrowed into a very slender stalk, sometimes toothed ; 
flowers all white or inner pale yellow, very minute, 
in small heads, 4 in. diam., on short stalks or one 
in every axil of the branches, bracts of the heads 
few, lanceolate, edges thin, dry receptacle flat, bare, corollas 
outer in 2-3 series, white, sho:tly ligulate, male, inner 
short, tubular, bell-shaped, 4-5-toothed, anther-bases blunt 
or 2-lobed, pappus hairs 3-5 or none, soon falling off ; 
achenes flattened, beaked. 
small to medium size, rootstock perennial, stems 
many, undivided below, branched above, slender, leafy, 
rough ; leaves 1-24 by 4-2 in., green, oblong, short-point- 
ed or blunt, sometimes toothed, sessile; flowers outer 
12-16, $-4 in., purplish, inner yellow, in heads 1? in. diam., 
forming flat-topped clusters, bracts of the heads few, 
outer large, blunt, green, anther-bases blunt, entire, pappus 
hairs longer than the achenes, white, slender, few; 
achenes 51, in., flattened, velvety, one- to three-ribbed. 
very like the last, but with smaller outer bracts. 
This plant may be found as an escape near gardens. 
medium size, velvety or hairy, rootstock perennial, 
woody, stems many, leafy, slender, stiff, leaves 3-1 in., 
linear or lanceolate, sometimes toothed, shortly stalked, 
flowers as in the last species, the heads smaller, $-? in., 
solitary, long-stalked, bracts of the heads long-pointed, 
ligules very many, pappus reddish ; otherwise like the last 
species. 
