Plants of the Punjab. 



295 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals united. 

 Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulate. 

 Lactuca macrorhiza, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Lactuca Lessertiana, 



Lactuca 

 sagittariodes, 



Lactuca polycephala, 



Prenanthes 

 Brunoniana, 



Pi'enanthes 

 violsefolia, 



Sonchus asper, 



Sonchus oleraceus, 



Sonchus maritimus, 



Tragopogon 

 pratense, 



Tragopogon 

 porrifolium, 



Scorzonera 

 divaricata, 



Composite. 

 F. B. Liii. 418. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-15,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



small to medium size, perennial, smooth, root woody, 

 stem slender, rarely unbranched, grooved, branches very 

 divergent ; leaves 2-6 by -j^e ^^^•> linear, slender, curved, 

 margins incurved ; flowers yellow, in large long-stalked 

 cylindric heads 1-1 1 in. diam., 5-8 flowered, bracts of re- 

 ceptacles 4-8 in several rows, outer short, broad, inner 

 long, linear, smooth or velvety ; achenes f in., very slender, 

 pale, smooth, not Avinged, longer than the pappus, pap- 

 pus hairs feathery below. 



Scorzonera purpurea, like the last species, l)ut sometimes woolly, flowers 



CoMPosiT^E. purple, achenes angled, shorter than the pappus. 



F. B. I. iii. 418. 



Kashmir, 



Banahal, 8,000 il . 



