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Plants of the Punjab. 
Hurss, Ergot, wirn ALTERNATE ExstipuLATE LoBeD LEAVES. 
Spinacia oleracea, 
Spinach, 
Valayati sag, palak. 
CHENOPODIACES. 
Be Belsys ob: 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
(Cultivated), 
Aquilegia vulgaris, 
Columbine, 
RANUNCULACES. 
Hee 725, 
Himalaya, 
5-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Actzea spicata, 
Baneberry, 
Herb Christopher, 
RANUNCULACES. 
BP. BSL a 729. 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Narkanda (Collett). 
Hazara. 
Cimicifuga feetida, 
Jiunh. 
RANUNCULACEA). 
SBS thee, 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Patarnala (Collett). 
Hattu. 
PETALS NONE. 
medium size, annual, smooth; leaves angular, ovate, 
long-pointed, broadly sharply pinnately lobed; flowers 
minute, greenish, males and females on different plants, 
male flowers in terminal leafless spikes, sepals 4-5, green, 
undivided, stamens 4-5, thread-like, female flowers in 
axillary clusters, calyx 2-4-toothed, in fruit enclosing 
the seed vessel, stigmas long, thread-like, united below, 
seed vessel hard, flattened, seed vertical. The leaves are 
eaten as a vegetable, and as a solvent of urinary calculi. 
CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, root perennial, thinly hairy, stems leafy ; 
leaves with a waxy green gloss, lower long-stalked 
pinnate, pinnules with 3 leaflets, upper shortly stalked, leaf- 
lets 3, deeply 3-lobed, segments coarsely round-toothed ; 
flowers 1 in. diam., yellow-green, nearly white or purplish, 
drooping in a loose branching raceme with a few sessile 
leaves at the forks, sepals 5, flat, ovate-lanceolate, soon 
falling off, petals 5, base of each produced into a blunt 
hooked spur, projecting between the sepals, stamens many, 
inner ones reduced to scales; follicles 5, sessile, tipped 
with the persistent styles, many-seeded. 
medium size, perennial, rootstock woody, horizontal, 
covered with leafless sheaths ; leaves 12 in., pinnately com- 
pound, pinnules often with 3 leaflets, leaflets ovate-lance- 
olate, poimted, often lobed, pointed, deeply and sharply 
toothed ; flowers} in. diam., white, crowded in short ter- 
minal racemes, lengthening in fruit, sepals 4, petal-like, 
concave, soon falling off, petals 4, shorter than the sepals, 
stamens many, stigma sessile, flat; berry ovoid, black, 
smooth, seeds many, flat, smooth. This plant is not used 
medicinally in this country. In America the poisonous 
nature of the berries is known, the plant is used for rheu- 
matic and nervous diseases. 
large, perennial, leafy, smooth below, felted above ; 
leaves 6-18 in., pinnately compound, leaflets 1-3 in., ovate 
or lanceolate, deeply sharply toothed, terminal leaflet 
3-lobed ; flowers } in. diam., white, crowded in short or 
long racemes, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves and 
combined in a terminal sometimes large and spreading 
branched raceme, sepals and petals 5-7, ovate, concave, one 
or two of the inner ones deeply 2-lobed, tips white, broad, 
