366. 
Plants of the Punjab. 
nen NEE 
Heres, EReor, with ALTERNATE Exstipunate Lopep Leravzs, 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Artemisia 
Absinthium, 
Wormwood, 
Vilayati afsantin. 
ComposiIT#&. 
F. B. I. ii. 328. 
Kashmir, 
5-7,000 ft. 
(Thomson). 
Artemisia 
Sieversiana, 
Afsantin, dauna. 
ComMPosiIT#&. 
F. B. 1. iu. 329, 
Himalaya, 
8-10,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Lahul. 
Gynura angulosa, 
Emilia sonchifolia, 
Sencio Levingili, 
Echinops echinatus, 
ComPposiIT™®. 
F. B. I. iui. 358. 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Rawalpindi. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes- Buller). 
medium size to large, perennial, grey velvety, very 
aromatic, stems angular, ribbed; leaves 1-2 in., ovate or 
ovate with broad tips, two or three times divided into 
spreading linear or lanceolate blunt segments, grey on 
both surfaces, radical and lower stem leaves narcomnd into 
winged stalks ; heads 4-4 in. diam., stalked, half round, in 
drooping terminal one-sided racemes, bracts round, heads 
oblong, grey, narrow thin margins, inner circular broad thin 
margins, floor of heads covered with long straight hairs ; 
flowers yellow, anthers long-pointed, achenes yy in. long ; 
for other characters see the last species. This Ee 18 used 
as a stomachic tonic and vermifuge. The oil is a narotic 
poison, a French liqueur is prepared from it. 
very like the last species, but annual, heads much 
larger, widely separated on long loose racemes, anthers 
bristle-pointed, its properties are very similar to those of 
the last species. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple 
Toothed. : 
gee Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, LobaL. 
gee Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
Toothed. 
medium size, annual, thistle-lke, stiff, spreading 
ei J 
much branched, white cottony; leaves 3-5 in., oblong 
sessile, pinnately divided, lobes triangular or oblong, 
J 
spinous, spines often 1} in., heads in white balls 1-1} in. 
diam., with many stout spines, each head contains one 
flower, outer bracts 6-8, lanceolate, smooth, inner 4 in. 
long, united, tips bristly, hardening round the silky achene 
pappus of short bristles, corolla tubular, slender, deeply 
cut into 5 segments, anther-bases forked, style-arms thick. 
