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Plmits of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 

 Leaflets many. 



Daucus Carota, 



Flowers, minute, in umbels. 



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Caucalis 

 Anthriscus, 



Caucalis leptophylla, 



Caucalis latif olia, 



Psflmmogeton 

 biternatum, 



Thalictrum 

 cultratum, 



Thalictrum 

 reniforme, 



Thalictrum 

 javanicum, 



Thalictrum, 

 foliolosum, 



Astilbe rivularis, 



Saxifragace^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 389. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-9,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 

 Dalhousie. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



see Herb^<, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound, 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



Petals none. 

 Leaflets many. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound, 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compouiul. 



see "Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



see Herbs, Erect,. Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



large, rootstock perennial, hair}' ; leaves 6-18 in., irre- 

 gularly 2-pinnate, stipules large, thin, united to the leaf 

 stalk, sheathing, base of leaf stalk enlarged, hairy, leaflets 

 1-4 in., ovate, sometimes lobed, heart-shaped at the base, 

 sharpty toothed, long-pointed, smooth above, minutely 

 bristly beneath along the mid-rib and nerves ; flowers very 

 small, greenish-yellow, sometimes one sexual in spicate ra- 

 cemes, forming a large terminal branching raceme, 12-24 

 in. long, stalk of raceme softly hairy, calyx bell-shaped, 

 united to the base of the ovary, lobes 5, deeply divided, 

 persistent, petals none, stamens 5, opposite tlie sepals, 

 styles 2 ; capsule small, 2-beaked, seeds minute, many, 

 narrow, tailed at both ends. This plant is sometimes 

 mistaken for Spiraea Aruncus, whose fruit has 3-4 beaks. 



