Plants of the Punjab. 387 
Herss, Ereot, with ALTERNATE ExstipuLate Lospep LBAVEs. 
Caltha palustris, 
Marsh marigold, 
Mamiri, baringu. 
RANUNCULACEA. 
PoB. 1. Qi. 
Himalaya, 
8-10,000 ft. 
The Chor (Collett). 
Hattu. 
Hazara. 
Acroglochin 
chenopodioides, 
Chenopodium 
album, 
Chenopodium 
opulifolium, 
CHENOPODIACEA. 
PPB Al avas. 
Kashmir and 
Lahul, 6-8,000 ft. 
Chenopodium 
murale, 
Netitle-leaved 
Goose foot, 
Batu, kurund, 
kharatua. 
CHENOPODIACER. 
Be Lew As 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Chenopodium 
Botrys, 
CHENOPODIACEAR. 
BBs Tey et 
Himalaya, 
4-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Peshawar. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
PETALS NONE. 
medium size, perennial, smooth, rootstock thick, 
creeping, stem stout, branched, leafy ; leaves, radical, 2-5 
in. across, circular or kidney-shaped, long-stalked, shining, 
deeply hollowed at the base, teeth small, close, regular, 
stem leaves smaller, upper sessile, embracing the stem like a 
cup ; flowers yellow or white, 1-2 in. diam., terminal sepals 
5 or 6, petal-like, oval or oblong blunt, petals none, stamens 
many ; fruit a head of many narrow flattened, many-seeded 
follicles beaked with the persistent styles. The root is con- 
sidered poisonous in Hazara. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Eixstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
medium size, mealy white, especially on the flowers 
and lower surface of the leaves, stems angled and grooved : 
leaves 13 by 13 in., broad, blunt, margins irregularly lobed ; 
flowers minute, greenish, 2-sexual in axillary clusters, 
sepals 8-5, keeled, stamens 1-5, styles 2-8 ; seed vessel flat- 
tened, covered by the sepals, seed dotted, margin rounded. 
small, nearly smooth, bright green, rather foetid : 
leaves 3-3 in., broad, ovoid, angular sides lobed, sharply 
toothed, base wedge-shaped, stalked long or short, flowers 
in slender spikes, forming loose dense axillary clusters, 
sepals bluntly keeled, ineurved in fruit, seed sharply 
keeled, dotted, horizontal; for other characters gee the 
last species. This plant is used as a pot herb. 
small to medium size, very aromatic, stem erooved, 
ribbed, velvety with glands, a weed of cultivation, leaves 
1-3 in., lower stalked, ovate or oblong-lobulate, upper more 
lanceolate, entire, flowers solitary or clustered, in short 
axillary or long terminal racemes, sepals velvety-glandu- 
lar, enclosing the seed vessel, seed horizontal, nearly 
round, smooth, margin blunt ; for other characters see the 
last species. The oil is used in America and France for 
coughs and colds and in the former as a vermifuge. 
002 
