Plants of the Punjab. 
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Hourss, Erect, wirH ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lear Mareins ENtTIRe. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Lactuca macrorhiza, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
Lactuca Lessertiana, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Iixstipulate, Lobed. 
Lactuca see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Iixstipulate, Lobed. 
sagittariodes, 
Lactuea polycephala, see Herbs, Hreet, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
Prenanthes see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
Brunoniana, 
Prenanthes see Herbs, Hreet, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
violeefolia, 
Sonchus asper, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
Sonchus oleraceus, see Herbs, Hrect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
Sonchus maritimus, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
Tragopogon see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 
pratense, Simple. 
Tragopogon see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, lxstipulate, 
porrifolium, Simple. 
Scorzonera small to medium size, perennial, smooth, root woody, 
divaricata, stem slender, rarely unbranched, grooved, branches very 
CoMPosiT#. divergent ; leaves 2-6 by ;4-§ In., linear, slender, curved, 
Bebe fin 4 18: margins incurved; flowers yellow, in large long-stalked 
Himalaya, cylindric heads 1-14 in. diam., 5-8 flowered, bracts of re- 
9-15,000 ft. ceptacles 4-8 in several rows, outer short, broad, inner 
Kashmir. 
Scorzonera purpurea, 
CoMPOSIT&. 
BB. anes. 
Kashmir, 
Banahal, 8,000 it. 
long, linear, smooth or velvety ; achenes 3 in., very slender, 
pale, smooth, not winged, longer than the pappus, pap- 
pus hairs feathery below. 
like the last species, but sometimes woolly, flowers 
purple, achenes angled, shorter than the pappus. 
