Plants of the Punjab. 379 
5 t 
Heres, Ergot, with ALTERNATE Exstiputatn LoBep LEAVEs. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Lactuca macrorhiza, 
CompositTa. 
F. B. I. i. 408. 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Simla, Mahasu, 
(Collett). 
Kashmir, 
The Chor. 
Lactuea Lessertiana, 
Composit az. 
F. B. I. ii. 408. | 
Himalaya, 
8-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Lactuca 
sagittarioides, 
Composit a. 
He Bele mi 410; 
Himalaya, 
east of the Ravi, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Daha in Giri Valley 
(Collett). 
Dharmsgala. 
Lactuca polycephala, 
ComMposira. 
F. B. I. iti. 410. 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
gmail to large, perennial, root tuberous, alpine forms 
very small with few leaves and scapes, leaves variable in 
size and shape, usually pinnately lobed, sometimes orbicu- 
larly heart-shaped, stalks dilated or lobed at the base, naked 
or winged, flowers grey blue in terminal drooping heads 
2-4, forming clusters, bracts of heads, outer lanceolate 
very much shorter than the 6-10 linear oblong inner ones, 
achenes §-% in., flat, black, smooth, 5-ribbed on either 
side, narrowed into a white beak, 2rds the length of the 
body, pappus silky white, equal to the achenes ; for other 
characters see the last species. 
like the last species, but never ‘large, leaves sometimes 
simple, heads blackish, flowers blue, beak of acheneg 
stout, pale, pappus yellowish, shorter than the acheneg. 
small to medium size, biennial, smooth, stems usually 
tufted, slender, 6-15 in., branched ; leaves radical, 2-3 in, 
long, long-stalked, forked at the base, lateral lobes hori- 
zontal, leaf stalk 6-10 in. long, narrowly winged at the top ; 
flowers yellow, in erect heads, 4 in. long, on naked flower- 
ing stems 6-18 in. long, branched above into a flat-topped 
cluster, bracts of head green, outer very small, inner 6-10, 
linear-oblong ; achenes +5 in., smooth, oblong-lanceolate, 
narrowed into the slender white beak, pappus white, as 
long as the achenes. 
small to medium size, annual, smooth, slender, found 
in wet places, leaves radical 3-10 by 4-3 in., linear or lance- 
olate, pinnatifid or toothed, narrowed to the base, stalked, 
stem leaves sessile, oblong or lanceolate, finely long-pointed, 
forked at the base with pointed lobes, flowers yellow, in 
many-flowered heads §-} in., arranged in branching umbel- 
shaped clusters, bracts of heads, outer minute, inner 6-10, 
linear-oblong, green, achenes 4 in., red brown, hardly 
flattened, with 10 strong smooth ribs, narrowed into a 
short slender brown beak, pappus 4 in., silvery ; for other 
characters see the last species. 
