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Plants of the Punjab: 
a  —— 
Prostrate Heres with ALTERNATE ExstTipuLATE Lopep LEAVES, 
Grangea 
maderaspatana, 
Mustaru. 
ComMpPosiTz&. 
F. B. I. iii. 246. 
The Plains. 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Glossocardia 
linearifolia, 
Seri. 
ComposiITm. 
F. B. I. iii, 308. 
The Plains, 
east of the Sutle}. 
Delhi. 
Chrysanthellum 
indicum, 
ComposITz. 
F. B. I. iii. 810, 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft., 
in west sandy 
ground, 
Tridax procumbens, 
Composit &. 
Fos bin. 8lt. 
The Plains. 
Cotula anthemoides, 
ra 
PETALS UNITED, 
small, perennial, softly hairy, prostrate, a weed, form- 
ing patches, 6-12 in, wide; leaves pinnately divided with 
gaps ; flowers yellow, in almost round solitary leaf-opposed 
shortly stalked heads, corollas tubular, outer 4-5-cleft, 
bracts in few series, outer green, floor of head convex, 
naked ; achenes flattened, pappus hairs united into a cylin- 
drical fringed tube, 
small, annual, usually prostrate, smooth, smells lke 
fennel, branches 8-10 in., grooved; leaves 4-2 in. long, 
slender, pinnately divided on slender stalks, segments nar- 
rowly linear, with a small tip on a straight edge; flowers 
yellow, inner tubular, outer ligulate, on small terminal axil- 
lary heads, 4 in., ligule 2-fid, outer bracts of head small, 
usually 8 with a green midrib, thin, margin bristly, mner 
larger, oblong, blunt, smooth with thin margins ; achenes 
1 in., densely bearded with stiff hairs, pappus of 2 smooth 
spreading tufts of bristles. This plant is used sometimes 
for food and as a medicine. 
small, annual, lying on the ground, smooth, stems stiff, 
square, grooved, smooth, or rough; leaves 1-3 in. long, 
triangular pinnately divided, stalk dilated at the sheath- 
ing base, segments oblong or wedge-shaped with the broad 
end outwards, bluntly lobed or cut, with an abrupt point 
at the apex of each division, succulent, translucent ; flowers 
yellow, inner tubular, outer ligulate in small stalked termi- 
nal axillary heads, } in. diam., enlarging in fruit, bracts in 
1-2-series, equal to the achenes, oblong or narrow tapering 
to each end, ligules spreading, entire or 2-toothed, pappus 
of a minute crown ; achenes -', in. long, very thick, oblong, 
wedge-shaped with the broad end upwards, grooved, 
margin smooth. 
small, perennial, weak, straggling along the ground: 
hairy, stems 12-24 in., a few leaves scattered along them ; 
leaves 1-2 in. long, pinnately divided, ovate or lanceolate, 
segments few, narrow, deeply irregularly toothed ; flowers 
yellow and white, inner tubular white, outer ligulate yellow 
in very long stalked heads, # in. diam., floor of head flat 
or convex, bracts of head few, outer short, broad, green, 
corollas inner tubular, 5-fid, outer 8-fid ; achenes brown, 
topshaped or oblong, silky, pappus hairs 4 in. long, 
shining, feathery. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 
