Plants of the Punjab. 481 
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Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExstIPpuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL LIGULATE. 
Pterotheca 
Faleoneri, 
ComposiTz. 
BB. F. 11. 899. 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Matiana, Baghi 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Hieracium crocatum, 
Hawk’s weed, 
CoMPosITm. 
F. B. I. in. 400. 
Himalaya, 
west of the Sutle}j, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Dalhousie. 
Kashmir. 
Hieracium virosum, 
CoMPOSITA. 
F. B. I. ii. 400. 
Kashmir. 
7-8,000 ft. 
Srinagar. 
Laetuca 
rapunculoides, 
Lactuca Lessertiana, 
Lactuca 
sagittarioides, 
Lactuea polycephala, 
Frenanthes 
Brunoniana, 
small to medium size; annual, stems many, rough, or glan- 
dular or smoothish ; leaves radical, 2-8 in., nearly sessile, 
ovate with a broad tip or long and spoon-shaped, toothed or 
pinnately divided ; flowers yellow, in heads 4-3 in. diam., 
on slender stalks, bracts of receptacle velvety, inner ones 
8-10, equal, linear, short-pointed, outer few, small, usually 
spreading, receptacle flat, hairy, ligules long, broad, spread- 
ing, 5-toothed ; achenes { in., linear, prominently ribbed, 
minutely wrinkled, narrowed to both ends, not beaked, 
red when ripe, pappus very short, soft, white, not feathery. 
medium size, perennial, smooth or hairy, juice milky, 
stem 12-24 in., straight, sometimes branched, leafy ; leaves 
radical none, stem leaves 1-5 in., sessile, oblong with round 
ends, linear-oblong or lanceolate, waxy beneath, base 
rounded, or heart-shaped, entire or toothed ; flowers yel- 
low, in heads ? in. diam., few or many and-erect on downy, 
hairy, or smooth stalks, bracts of receptacle smooth, flat- 
lying, blunt, outer often slender, recurved, ligules 5-toothed, 
long, spreading, pappus copious, rough, rigid, brittle, 
tawny ; achenes % in., cylindric, faintly ribbed, black, 
shining, not beaked. 
medium size, perennial, smooth or very little hairy 
waxy green, stem stout, leafy, stiff, leaves 1-8 in., sessile, 
short, leathery, oblong-ovate, base heart-shaped, toothed, 
crowded, smooth above, slightly bristly on the margins 
and beneath, flowers yellow, in many heads, 2 in. diam., 
in short terminal bracteate umbellate flat-topped clusters, 
stalks short, stout, bracteolate, bracts of receptacle smooth, 
outermost small, spreading, achenes -, in., red-brown; 
for other characters see the last species. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
