378 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Hares, Ernot, with ALTERNATE ExstTipULATE LOBED LEAvEs. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Lactuca dissecta, 
CoMPposIT @. 
BSB im. 405: 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, Sakesar, 
Salt Range, 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Lactuca longifolia, 
CoMPosITa. 
BSB. in. 405; 
Himalaya, 
4-9,000 ft. 
Shali, Daha 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Lactuca 
rapunculoides, 
Composit m. 
FYB, 1. in. 407. 
Himalaya, 
9-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Lahul. 
Lactuca decipiens, 
Composita. 
BeBe. 10.407. 
Himalaya, 
8-10,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Dras. 
Lactuca hastata, 
Composira. 
F. B. I. in. 407. 
Himalaya, 
A-12,000 ft. 
Simla, ‘Theog, in 
forest (Collett). 
very like the last species, but flowers blue, beak of 
achenes shorter, twice the body, heads +3 in. long. 
like the last, but the leaves are often entire with forked 
base and half pinnately cut lobes, very long, linear, beak of 
achenes shorter, only equal in length to the body or less. 
medium size to large, perennial, root tuberous or 
spindle-shaped, often unbranched, leafy, smooth or slight- 
ly bristly above, leaves, lower long-stalked, heart- or tri- 
angular-shaped with margins incurved or variously toothed, 
upper with winged stalks, forked at the base with 2 
lobes, uppermost nearly sessile, often lanceolate, heads 
4-2 in., blue or purple, drooping in clusters, bracts of heads 
very small, inner few, very narrow with dilated tips, 
achenes 4 in. long, very narrow, slightly flattened with 
rounded edges, narrowed into a brown beak, pappus dirty 
white ; for other characters see the last species. 
like the last, but the leaves are much lobed, heads 
much larger, 2 in. long. 
like the last, but much larger, leaves sometimes a 
foot long, heads ? in. long, achenes quite flat, achenes 
contracted into a brown cleft tip in which the white beak 
is situated. 
