376 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Se GE eee 
Heres, Ereor, with ALTERNATE HXsTIPULATE LOBED LEAVES. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Cichorium Intybus, 
Wild Chicory, 
Kasni, hand, gul, 
suchal. 
CoMPOSIT&. 
FOB. ae 39h. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. . 
Simla, Boileaugan) 
(Collett). 
Lapsana communis, 
Nipplewort, 
ComposiT#&. 
F8. V4. 391. 
Kashmir, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Rhagadiolus 
Hedypnois, 
Composit. 
F. B. I. iii. 392. 
Kashmir (Falconer), 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Crepis foetida, 
Hawk’s beard, 
Composit #®. 
FB. I. i. 898. 
The Plains from 
1-8,000 ft. 
Rawalpindi 
(Douie). 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Crepis sibirica, 
small to medium size, perennial, root tapering, fleshy, 
stem angled, grooved; leaves, radical 3-6 in., pinnately 
divided, lobes toothed, pointing backwards, upper leaves 
small, entire ; flowers blue, in solitary terminal or axillary 
clustered heads, 1-14 in. diam., stalk thickened in the 
middle, bracts of heads green, glandular-hairy, floor oi 
heads naked or slightly fringed, corollas all with 5-toothed 
ligules, style-arms long, pappus of short, erect, blunt 
scales ; achenes small, pale, angled with the crown of 
pappus scales. The cultivated variety of this, C. Endivia, 
is found in a few places. 
medium size, annual, smooth or-hairy, much-branched, 
leafy ; leaves, lower stalked, pinnately divided, terminal 
lobe largest, toothed, stem leaves ovate, upper linear, 
entire; flowers yellow, in many small loosely clustered 
heads, 4 in. long, on short slender naked stalks, bracts 
of heads 8-10, linear, stiff, keeled, blunt, smooth or 
glandular, floor of heads flat, naked, pappus none ; achenes 
+ in., pale, shining, curved, 20-30 ribbed, ribs slender. 
small, annual, smooth or slightly hairy, branches 
many from the root; leaves 1-3 in., ovate-oblong, pinnately 
divided or toothed ; flowers yellow, in axillary or terminal 
heads, 4-4 in., bracts of the heads in one series, later on 
keeled and embracing the outer achenes, floor of heads 
naked, pappus of inner flowers scaly, outer short ; achenes 
1-1 in., longer than the bracts, curved, narrow, smooth, 
beaked. 
small, annual, rough, branches many from the root ; 
leaves, lower 2-6 in., pinnately divided, toothed, end lobe 
tho largest, upper smaller, toothed or entire, heart-shaped, 
base half stem-clasping ; flowers bright yollow, in long-stalk- 
ed (in bud drooping), terminal clustered heads, 3 in, diam., 
bracts of heads many, outer rough with hooked hairs, 
then hardened and keeled, floor of heads flat, naked, pappus 
1} in., soft, dirty white, corollas all ligulate, ligules long, 
5-toothed ; achenes; outer } in., curved, pale, inner 
4-3 in., straight, many-ribbed, red brown, beak very slender 
equal to the body. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 
Simple. 
