Plants of the Punjab. 881 
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Heres, Error with ALTERNATE ExstiputatE Lospep Luaves. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Sonchus arvensis, 
Corn sow thistle, 
Sahadevi bari. 
CoMPOSITA. 
Pe buban. 414. 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Sonchus maritimus, 
ComPosITa. 
FB. Bolin. 414: 
N.-W. F. Province, 
Peshawar 
(Stewart). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Launza 
aspleniifolia, 
CoMPOSITm. 
Babe tpi. 405. 
The Plains. 
Launezea 
chondrilloides, 
CoMPosiTm. 
Pept. 406. 
The Plains west of 
the Ravi, Multan. 
Rawalpindi. 
Launeea secunda, 
very like the last species, but flowers in the autumn, 
rootstock creeping, leaves with the lobes pointing back- 
wards, heads and stalks glandular hairy. This plant is 
considered mildly sedative, the milky juice when dry looks 
like opium. 
very like the last species, but leaves linear-oblong, 
entire or toothed with the gaps rounded, heads few, 
smooth, achenes with thick end margins, faces with a thick 
middle rib and two slender lateral ones. 
medium size, biennial or perennial, juice yellow, 
smooth, flowering stems many from the root ; leaves 3-6 ind 
narrowly ovate with broad tip, lobed or pinnately divided, 
lobes minutely toothed, stem-leaves few ; flowers yellow, 
in smooth terminal heads, 4 in. diam., on bracteate stalks, 
forming branching racemes, bracts of heads green, outer 
small, inner linear, margins thin, floor of head flat, naked, 
anther-bases forked, style arms slender, pappus $+ in, 
copious, hairs white, not feathery, united into a ring ; 
achenes +, in., narrow, angled, ribs 4-5, very stout, not 
winged. 
like the last species, but leaves more divided, stem- 
leaves sessile, forked at the base, heads rather larger. 
gee 
Lobed. 
Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 
