330 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. IX Hooker.) [Artemisia. 



A. Absinthium, but the root is clearly annual and the receptacle is glabrous ; the 

 specimens are very poor and also resemble A. Sieversiana ; it is properly a garden plant. 



A. UBPTOPHYLLA, Don Prodr. 182; DC. Prodr. vi. 12,6; "silky, leaves bipinnate 

 linear-subulate acute rarely divided, stem ascending simple leafy, flowers unknown." 

 "Alpine region of Nipal, Wallich ; very near A. pontica." It is impossible to recog- 

 nise this by the description. 



A. G-MELINI, var. 5, Jacquemontiana, and var. , Cashmyrica, Bess. Monog. Abrot. 

 Suppl. 40 & 41 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 107, may be forms of vutgaris, vestita, or Hoxburghiana. 



A. MOIXISSIMA, Don Prodr. 182; DC. Prodr. vi. 125; " wholly clothed with white 

 wool, stem erect simple a span high angled, leaves 2 in. spreading elegantly sub- 

 3-pinnate leaflets linear-lanceolate flat quite entire mucronate, heads axillary sessile 

 woolly, invol. bracts linear mucronate. Sirinagur." This is undeterminable. 



A. KOHATICA, Klatt in Sitzung. Munch. Akad. 1878, 91. The meagre description 

 does not even state to what section of the genus this plant belongs. 



TRIBE VII SENECIONIDEJE. 

 73. TUSSILAGO, /,. 



A white, woolly, scapigerous herb, with a perennial stoloniferous root-stock. 

 Leaves all radical, coming after the flowers, orbicular-cordate, toothed. Heads 

 solitary, heterogamous, radiate, yellow; ray^. $ 06 -seriate, fertile, ligule 

 narrow spreading ; disk-fl. J ; sterile, tubular, limb elongate 5-n'd. Involucre 

 campanulate or cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, with a few very small outer 

 ones ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases entire or subauricled. Style-arms of 

 entire, obtuse. Achenes of $ linear, 5-10-ribbed, with slender rough pappus- 

 hairs ; of 5 slender, empty, pappus scanty. 



1. T. Farfara, Linn. ; Boiss. FL Orient, iii. 377; DC. Prodr. vi. 208; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 166. T. rupestris, Wall. Cat. 2990. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 6-11,000 ft., Blinkworth, 

 &c. DISTRIB. N. & W. Asia, N. Africa, Europe. 



Leaves long petioled, 3-10 in. broad, cobwebby above, white-tomentose beneath. 

 Scapes 1 or more, 4-10 in., tomentose, scaly. Head l-l in. diam., bright yellow, 

 drooping in bud. Pappus soft, snow-white. 



74. CREIKANTHODIUM, Benth. 



Perennial scapigerous herbs. Leaves chiefly radical, cordate or reniform, 

 toothed, rarely pinnatifid. Heads solitary on a leafless or 1-2-leaved or brac- 

 teate scape, always nodding or deflexed, heterogamous, radiate, yellow or pale 

 pink ; ray-fl. $ , 1-seriate, fertile, ligule large spreading 2-4-toothed ; disk-fl. 

 5 , fertile, tubular, limb cylindric 5-nd. Involute campanulate or hemispheric, 

 bracts 1-seriate, membranous ; receptacle flat, naked, pitted. Anther-bases sub- 

 entire. Style-amis short or long, flattened, obtuse or acute. Achenes angled, 

 5-10-striate, glabrous ; pappus-hairs copious, white or reddish, slender, rough or 

 barbellate. DISTRIB. Species 8, all Himalayan. 



This genus is hardly distinguishable from Senecio, Ligularia. The species are 

 probably unduly multiplied, but more specimens are required to determine their 

 limits; the involucral bracts vary much in most, in number, length, breadth, and in 

 being glabrous or pubescent ; all the species are nearly glabrous with .black or brown 

 pubescence at the top of the scape and base of the involucre. The style-arms differ 

 much in the various species. The bracts are as in Senecio, Ligularia, 1-seriate, but 

 overlap in two series ; the heads are ecalyculate in all. 



* Nerves of leaf radiating from the petiole. 



1. C. reniforme, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1141 ; nearly glabrous, 

 12-18 in. high, leaves long-petioled reniform or orbicular sinuate-toothed 



