Plants of the Punjab. 575 
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Prostrate Heres with ALTERNATE ExstipuLATE Lospep Lravszs, 
Cotula aurea, 
CoMPOSITA. 
PSB: -E niysi6; 
The Plains, 
Peshawar. 
Rhagadiolus 
Hedypnos, 
Calystegia 
hederacea, 
Solanum 
xXanthocarpum, 
Veronica 
hedereefolia, 
Ivy speedwell, 
ScROPHULARIACEA, 
F. B. I. iv. 294, 
Kashmir, 
6,000 ft. 
Chrysosplenium 
tenellum, 
SAXIPRAGACEA. 
Fo. Brian, 401, 
Himalaya, 
9-10,000 ft. 
Baghi, Marah, 
on wet rocks 
(Collett). 
Amarantus 
tenuifoiius, 
PRTALS UNITED. 
small, annual, nearly smooth, stems 2-4 in,, lying 
down from the root; leaves 1-3 in., pinnately divided, 
segments very finely divided and sub-divided or entire ; 
flowers yellow, in axillary and terminal stalked heads, 4-} 
in. diam., bracts of the head broadly oblong, floor of 
head naked, corollas flattened, lobed at the base, walls very 
thick below, mouth 4-lobed, pappus none ; achenes oblong 
flattened, striated. ; 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
annual, hairy, branches many, 6-18 in.; leaves 3-2 
in. diam., circular ovate, 5-7-lobed, stalked, stalk short, 
widened upwards, lobes rounded ; flowers 4 in. diam., pale 
blue, on solitary axillary stalks, opening one after the 
other as the branch lengthens, stalks equal to the leaves 
in length, calyx 4-5-partite, lower segments united, heart- 
shaped, bristly, long-pointed, extending beyond the corolla, 
thin, corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 4-5, spreading, stamens 2, 
projecting out of the corolla tube ; capsule 2-grooved, lobes 
round or flattened, seeds one to many, large, black 
wrinkled, nearly round with a deep pit on the inner side, 
PETALS NONE. 
annual, delicate, smooth, stems thread-like, 1-3 in., 
leafy, lying along the ground interlacing; leaves barely 
zin. broad, kidney-shaped, notched at the base, toothed, 
lobed, lobes 4-6, shallow ; flowers ;4, in. diam., green-yel- 
low, stalked solitary, scattered, calyx tube joined to the 
ovary, lobes 4, overlapping, blunt, petals none, stamens 
8, styles 2; capsule 2-beaked, splitting open cross-wise 
at the top, seeds small, smooth, shining. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
