834 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Error, with ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Lear Maroins TootHEeD,. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
Brachyactis 
menthodora, 
CoMPOSIT. 
F. B. I. ni. 253: 
Sind Valley. 
Kashmir, 12,000 ft. 
(Clarke). 
Erigeron linifolius, 
Flea batie, 
CoMPOSIT&. 
EF. B. I. iti. 254. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Erigoron canadensis, 
Erigeron asteroides, 
CoMPOSIT#. 
F. B. I. in. 254. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
medium size, root perennial, stem annual, glandular, 
velvety, odour of mint, stiff, branches short, erect ; leaves 
1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, ovate, sharply toothed, lower 
long-stalked, upper sessile, half stem-clasping, prolonged 
down the stem ; flowers, outer bluish, inner yellow, in heads 
3-2 in. towards the top of the stem, or the ends of the 
branches, bracts of the heads green, few, in 2-8 series, linear, 
velvety, half as long as the flowers, 1-2, outer often much 
larger and leafy, floor of head not pitted, corollas, inner 5- 
toothed, outer minutely ligulate, pappus + in., reddish, 
anther-bases blunt, not divided, style-arms narrow, flat- 
tened, tips narrowly lanceolate ; achenes 51, 1n., quite flat, 
nearly smooth, margins thickened. 
medium size to large, annual, more or less hairy, much 
branched ; leaves 14-4 in., linear, often entire, sessile, 
crowded ; flowers minute, inner yellow, outer pale purple 
or white in heads }in. diam., on many slender stalks form- 
ing a leafy flat-topped branching raceme, bracts of heads 
in few series, floor of head naked, flat or slightly convex, 
pappus often double, the outer of a few hairs or bristles, 
corollas, inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer in several rows, 
liculate, ligules short or long, entire or minutely toothed, 
anther-bases blunt, entire, style-arms flattened, tips lance- 
olate, long or short ; achenes flattened, beaked. A garden 
escape. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
medium size, annual, velvety or hairy, with sticky 
slands, leaves 1-2 in., oblong or ovate with a broad tip, 
stalked, often lobulate, stem leaves 3-1 in., half stem-clasp- 
ing, flowers in heads }-} in. diam., stalked, solitary or nearly 
clustered, ligules very narrow, blue, rather longer than the 
reddish or dirty-white pappus, bracts of the heads very 
narrow with hair points, much shorter than the pappus ; 
achenes ;'; in., nearly smooth; for other characters see 
the last described species, 
