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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, ERECT, WITH ALTERNATE EXXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lear Marcins TootHep. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Laggera pterodonta, 
CoMPosiTz. 
BB) Lim 271. 
Himalaya, 
east of Sutle}, 
4,000 ft. 
Laggera aurita, 
CoMPosIT». 
pls hel Bare yg 
The Plains. 
Spheeranthus 
indicus, 
Mundi, gurukmundt. 
CoMPOSIT”. 
fb. 1. 1m. 275. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft., in dry rice 
fields. 
Phagnalon niveum, 
Ceesulia axillaris, 
Pulicaria crispa, 
like the last species, but more slender, smooth wings 
of stem toothed or lobed, leaves often lobed, heads 2 in. ° 
diam., on slender stalks at the end of the branches, bracts 
smooth, stiff. 
like the last species, but hairy, sticky, glandular, 
stem not winged, leaves very little prolonged down the 
stem, often lobed, heads 3-4 in. diam., in small, lateral or 
terminal clusters, flowers pink, bracts soft, slender, silky. 
This plant smells of turpentine. 
medium size, annual, glandular, softly hairy, aromatic, 
branches with toothed wings ; leaves 1-2 in. long, oblong- 
ovate with a broad tip, narrowed to the toothed base, 
prolonged down the branches, blunt or short-pointed, 
toothed, teeth often bristle-pointed, glandular-hairy on 
both surfaces ; flowers pink or purple in globose, terminal, 
solitary, compound, bracteate heads 4 in. diam., consisting 
of very small crowded heads, each with 12 flowers, bracts 
of small heads linear, hairy at the tip, as long as the flowers, 
pappus none, outer corollas 10-12, 4-5-toothed, inner 
2-3, slender, straight, 2-3-toothed, style-arms thread-like 
or united ; achenes,oblong, stalked, smooth. ‘This plant 
is used to make a bitter tonic and a vermifuge in Indian 
medicine. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed, flowers in heads, inner tubular, outer ligulate. 
