Plants of the Punjab. 378 
Heras, Ereot, with ALTERNATE ExstipuLATE LoBED LEAVES. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, INNER TUBULAR, OUTER LIGULATE. 
Carthamus lanatus, 
CoMPOSIT A. 
F. B. 1. ii. 386. 
Kashmir, 
5-6,000 it. 
Brachyactis 
umbrosa, 
Conyza stricta, 
Inula Royleana, 
Vicoa auriculata, 
Vicoa vestita, 
Glossocardia 
linearifolia, 
Sert. 
COMPOSITA. 
¥. B. I. iii. 808. 
The Plains, east of 
the Sutlej, Delhi. 
Achillea millefolium, 
small to medium size, annual, stiff, cobwebby, cot- 
tony or nearly smooth ; leaves 4-1} in., hairy, hard, green, 
radical pinnately lobed, end lobe largest, stem leaves 
ovate, half stem-clasping with a forked toothed base strong- 
ly 3-nerved, spinescent ; flowers pale yellow in heads 1-14 
in. diam., outer br cts of heads 1-2 in., spreading, project- 
ing beyond the flowers, lanceolate, leafy, prickly on the 
sides, lower linear brown, thin, tip spinescent, bristles of 
the floor of the heads very long, anther-bases forked, tails 
fringed, pappus longer than the achenes of swordshaped 
scales, silvery or bronze-coloured; achenes} in., thick, 
4-angled, pitted above, pale yellowish or grey. 
see Herbs, Hrect, Alternate, Hxstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
see Herbs, Hrect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
seo Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Entire. 
seo Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, — 
Toothed. 
small, annual, smells like fennel, much branched from 
the base, often prostrate ; leaves 4-2 in., pinnately divided, 
stalk long, slender, blade broadly ovate, segments thread- 
like ; flowers yellow, in shortly stalked heads 4 in. long, 
bracts of heads few, inner oblong with thin broad margins, 
outer one to three, slender, floor of heads flat, scales fow, 
flat, inner corollas. 4-toothed, outer ligulate, ligule 2- 
toothed, anther bases blunt, entire, pappus of 2 stiff 
bristles ; achenes }+ in. long, narrowly oblong, flattened. 
faces bearded. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Hxstipulate, Lobed. 
