480 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE SimpLe LEAVEs. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Crepis sibirica, 
CoMPoOSsIT &. 
F. B. I. ii. 894. 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Crepis blattaroides, 
Hawk’s Beard, 
CompPosiIrz. 
F. B. I. ii. 894, 
Kashmir, 
Sonemarg, 
11,500 ft. 
Crepis acaulis, 
CompositTm. 
F. B. I. ii. 396. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Chenah, 
1-3,000 ft. 
Crepis Stoliczkai, 
ComposiIT”m. 
F. B. I. in. 896. 
Himalaya, 
10-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Tilail, 
Lahul, 
small to medium size, perennial, more or less rough, 
root spindle-shaped, very stout, stem 6-18 in., sometimes 
branched ; leaves 6-12 in., lowest stalked, lanceolate with a 
broad long-pointed tip, toothed or pinnately divided, end 
lobe largest, minutely toothed, stem leaves heart-shaped, 
half stem-clasping ; flowers yellow, all strap-shaped, in 
few stalked heads 1 in. diam., in terminal clusters, bracts 
of receptacle blunt, bristly, velvety; outer broadly ovate, 
inner linear, pappus } in., scanty, soft ; achenes 4 in., slen- 
der, ribbed, smooth, pale brown, gradually narrowed into 
a slender beak. 
like the last species, but larger, leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., 
oblong-ovate with a broad short tip, entire or toothed, 
stem leaves few, large, sessile, bracts of receptacle 
lanceolate. sharp-pointed, achenes 4 in., red-brown, outer 
curved. 
small, perennial, stemless, smooth, root woody, 
straight, cylindric ; leaves chiefly radical, 2-12 in. long, 
lanceolate, linear, blunt or short-pointed, entire, toothed 
or pinnately divi ed; flowers yellow. in few heads, 1 in. 
long, 10-12-flowered on _ bracteolate stalks, 3-10 in., 
shorter than the leaves, outer bracts of receptacle very 
small, inner linear; achenes } in., oblong with rounded 
ends, flattened, ribs 10-20, smooth, pappus soft, silvery. 
longer than the achenes. 
like the last species but hairy, leaves long-staJked. 
heads } in. long, achenes } in., red-brown, pappus shorter 
than the achenes. 
