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Plants of the Punjah. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals united. 

 Flowers, minute, in heads, inner tubular, outer ligulate. 



Solidago 

 Virga-aurea, 



Rhyncospermum 

 verticillatum, 



Hukmandaz. 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. L iii. 24«. 



Himalaya, 



5-6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Kashmir. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate. Exstipiilate, Simple. 



medium size to large, velvety, branches slender, 

 spreading ; leaves 1-3 in., lanceolate, long-pointed, thin, 

 narrowed into a very slender stalk, sometimes toothed ; 

 flowers all white or inner pale yellow, very minute, 

 in small lieads, I in. diam., on short stalks or one 

 in every axil of the jji'anches, bracts of the heads 

 few, lanceolate, edges thin, dry receptacle flat, bare, corollas 

 outer in 2-3 series, white, sho'tly ligulate, male, inner 

 short, tubular, bell-shaped, 4-5-toothed, anther-bases blunt 

 or 2-lobed, pappus hairs 3-5 or none, soon falling off ; 

 achenes flattened, beaked. 



Aster Pseudamellus, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 249. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-9, 000 "ft. 

 Lahul (Jaeschke). 



small to medium size, rootstock perennial, sterna 

 many, undivided below, branched above, slender, leafy, 

 rough ; leaves 1-2| by |-f in., green, oblong, short-point- 

 ed or blunt, sometimes toothed, sessile ; flowers outer 

 12-16, |-i in., purplish, inner yellow, in heads If in. diam., 

 forming flat-topped clusters, bracts of the heads few, 

 outer large, blunt, green, anther-bases blunt, entire, pappus 

 hairs longer than the achenes, white, slender, few ; 

 achenes y\j- in., flattened, velvety, one- to three-ribbed. 



Aster Amellus, 

 Michaelmas Daisy, 



COMPOSIT.E. 



F. B. I. iii. 249. 

 The Plains to 

 8,000 ft. 

 Cultivated. 



Aster molliuseulus. 



Composite. 

 F. B.I. iii. 251. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Coflett). 

 Kashmir. 



very like the last, but with smaller outer bracts. 

 This plant may be found as an escape near gardens. 



medium size, velvety or hairy, rootstock perennial, 

 woody, stems many, leafy, slender, stiff, leaves |-1 in., 

 Hnear or lanceolate, sometimes toothed, shortly stalked, 

 flowers as in the last species, the heads smaller, |-f in., 

 solitary, long-stalked, bracts of the heads long-pointed, 

 ligules very many, pappus reddish ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



