Plants of the Punjab. 291 
Heres, ERECT, WITH ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
Aster altaicus, very like the last, but much larger, stem grooved, 
CoMposiT”m. much branched, leaves sessile. 
HB. 41. i. 251. 
Himalaya, 
- 9-18,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Lahul, 
Baluchistan. 
Brachyactis small, annual, glandular and softly hairy, branch- 
umbrosa, ed from the base, leafy ; leaves $-? in., ovate with a broad 
ComposiTm. tip, or with small lobes or wedge-shaped; fiowers pale 
BB. 2 2258. blue or pink in many sessile or long-stalked heads, 3 in. 
Himalaya, diam., one in nearly every leaf-axil, bracts of the heads 
8-12,000 ft. half as long as the flowers, in 2-3 series, narrow, outer 
Kashmir, Lahul often leafy, corollas inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer heulate 
Baluchistan (Lace). minute, in one to many series, anther-bases blunt, entire, 
style-arms narrow, flattened, tips lanceolate, pappus hairs 
4 in., reddish, scanty ; achenes +, in., quite flat. 
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Brachyactis robusta, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
Erigeron linifolius, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
Erigeron canadensis, small to large, annual, slender, much branched, 
CoMposiTm. velvety, hairy or nearly smooth, leafy; leaves 1-3 in., 
F. B. I. i. 254, narrowly linear, or linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, some- 
The Plains to times remotely toothed, smooth or hairy ; flowers, inner 
3,000 ft. yellow, outer pink or purplish in stalked heads, §-} in. 
diam., in long-branched racemes, bracts of the heads nar- 
row, long-pointed, smooth or hairy, margins thin, corollas 
inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer ligulate, in several series, 
hardly longer than the pappus ; anther-bases blunt, pappus 
hairs white, becoming reddish; achenes ;', in., narrow, 
flat, smooth. 
Erigeron asteroides, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
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