Plants of the Punjab. 



291 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals united. 



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



Aster altaicus, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. Liii. 251. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-13,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Lahul, 

 Baluchistan. 



very hke the last, but mucli larger, stem grooved, 

 much branched, leaves sessile. 



Brachyactis 

 umbrosa. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 253. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Lahul 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



small, annual, glandular and softly hairy, branch- 

 ed from the base, leafy ; leaves l-f in., ovate with a broad 

 tip, or with small lobes or wedge-shaped ; flowers pale 

 blue or pink in many sessile or long-stalked heads, | in. 

 diam., one in nearly every leaf-axil, bracts of the heads 

 half as long as the flowers, in 2-3 series, narrow, outer 

 often leafy, corollas inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer ligulate 

 minute, in o_ne to many series, anther-bases blunt, entire, 

 style-arms narrow, flattened, tips lanceolate, pappus hairs 

 I in., reddish, scant}^ ; achenes j^ in., quite flat. 



Brachyactis robusta, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



Erigeron linifollus, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



Erigeron canadensis, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 254. 

 The Plains to 

 3,000 ft. 



small to large, annual, slender, much branched, 

 velvety, hairy or noarly smooth, leafy ; leaves 1-3 in., 

 narrQ^\ly linear, or linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, some- 

 times remotely toothed, smooth or hairy ; flov/ers, inner 

 yellow, outer pink or purplish in stalked heads, ^-^ in. 

 diam., in long-branched racemes, bracts of the heads nar- 

 row, long-pointed, smooth or hairy, margins tliin, corollas 

 inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer ligulate, in several series, 

 hardly longer than the pappus ; anther-bases blunt, pappus 

 hairs white, becoming reddish ; achenes -^-^r in., narrow, 

 flat, smooth. 



Erigeron asteroides, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



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