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Plants of the Punjab. 



JIerbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Lieaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire, 

 Petals united. 



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



Erigeron alpinus, 

 var. multicaulis, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 255. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



small to medium size, biennial or perennial, hairy 

 or velvety, stems many, often tufted, much branched 

 from the base, branches slender, leaves radical oblong, 

 stalked, spreading, stem leaves sessile, lanceolate, 1-2| 

 by i-^ in., or ovate with a broad tip 2 by f in., sometimes 

 toothed, short-pointed or blunt, heads long-stalked, 

 solitary or in flat-topped clusters, -l-f in. diam., bracts of 

 the hea U velvety or woolly ; otherwise Hke the last 

 species. 



Erigeron 

 multiradiatus, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 256, 

 Himalaya, 

 7-9,000 ft. 

 Hattu (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



very like the last species, but the heads are much 

 larger, 2-3 in. diam., ligules purple, very many, much 

 longer than the pappus, 



Conyza viscidula. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed- 



Conyza strieta. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



Inula graveolens, 



CoMPOSITjE. 



F. B. I. iii. 292. 

 M.-W. F. Province. 

 Peshawar 

 (Stewart). 



medium size, annual, slender, much branched, 

 velvety and sticky ; leaves 1-1| by -^-^ in., linear, short- 

 pointed, one-nerved, sessile, spreading ; flowers yellow, 

 inner tubular, outer ligulate in top-shaped heads, ^ in. 

 diam., terminating mam^ slender branches, bracts of the 

 heads few, linear, short-or long-pointed, erect, outer gi-een, 

 velvety, and glandular, corollas inner tubular, 5-toothed, 

 outer ligulate, 3-toothod, anther- ])ases forked, long- tailed, 

 pappus hairs 1-2 series, coarse, on the edge of the cup- 

 shaped top of the achenes ; achenes |- in., hairy, sticky, 

 usually ribbed. 



