Plants of the Punjab. 868 
Herss, Erect, with ALTERNATE Exstrpunatn Lopep LeEavzs. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Cotula 
hemispherica, 
Composit #&. 
BeBe Wom. 316: 
The Plains. 
Tanacetum gracile, 
Tanacetum 
nubigenum, 
Artemisia 
Dracunculus, 
Tarragon, 
CoMPposItTz. 
Po Bick rite 82.0. 
Himalaya, 
14-16,000 ft. 
Lahul (Jaesckhe). 
Artemisia parviflora, 
Kanyurts. 
Composit. 
F’, B. I. iii. 822. 
Himalaya, 
3-10,000 ft. 
corollas 4-toothed, 
blunt, entire, 
narrow wings. 
eyes. 
outer conic or none, anther-baseg 
pappus none; achenes ovate with thick 
The plant is used as an application to sore 
small, annual, smooth or hairy above, leaf segments 
very many, linear, terminating in a short hard point, heads 
drooping in fruit, achenes angled, not winged ; for other 
characters see the last species. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
medium size, perennial, green, strongly-scented, smooth, 
stem grooved, ribbed; leaves radical divided into 8 
segments or none, stem leaves 1-14 in., sessile, linear 
or linear-oblong, entire or toothed ; flowers very minute, 
greenish in nearly round heads }1in. diam., sessile or stalked 
in branching racemes, bracts of heads broadly oblong with 
a very broad transparent margin and a very narrow green 
disk, floor of head naked, pappus none, outer corollas 2-8- 
toothed, inner 5-toothed, anther-bases blunt, achenes very 
minute, oblong, faintly streaked. This plant was intro- 
duced into Europe, and is cultivated for flavouring in 
cookery, it is not apparently used for this purpose in 
India. 
medium size to large, perennial, shrubby, scentless, 
smooth or slightly hairy, stem grooved, much branched, 
leaves 1-2 in. long, wedge-shaped, stalked or nearly 
sessile, divided at the tip or entire, all have 2 strap- 
shaped stipule-like lobes near the base of the leaf stalk, 
flowers 6-10, very minute, greenish, in round nodding heads 
5-4 in. diam. in long straight branching racemes, achenes 
oblong with rounded ends, smooth, brown ; for other charac- 
ters see the last species. 
