Planis of ihe I'livjah. 



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Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 

 Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Carpesium cernuum. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 300. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-800 ft''. 

 Simla, Mahasu 

 (Collett). 



medium size to largo, annual, velvety to shortly hairy ; 

 leaves 2-5 by |-1| in., lanceolate to ovate, nearly sessile 

 to long- winged stalks, sharply pointed, toothed ; flowers 

 minute, j^ellow, in terminal solitary nodding heads |-1 in. 

 diam.. with large leafy bracts at the base or on long naked 

 stiff stalks, bracts of heads many, outer green, more or 

 less leaf-like, inner shorter, dry, broad, oblong, blunt, 

 margin white, pappus none, corolla of outer flowers 3- 

 toothed, of inner slightly larger, 5-toothed, anther bases 

 forked, tails slender, style-arms linear, blunt, converging 

 at first; achenes long-ribbed, not hairy, tip beaked, glan- 

 dular. 



Carpesium 

 trachelifolium, 



Composit.b. 



F. B. I. iii. 301. 



Himalaya, 



4-6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



The Glen, Simla. 



like the last species, but more slender, more hairy 

 leaves smaller, long stalked, sometimes lobulate-toothed 

 wth rounded notches, heads never larger than | in. 

 cham., solitary or in clusters at the end of long axillary 

 stalks. 



Carpesium 

 abrotanoides, 



Adenocaulon bieolor, 



COMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 302. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-9,000 ft. 

 Narkanda (Collett). 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



medium size to large, perennial, stem and branches 

 covered with grey cottony hairs ; leaves 2-4 in. cUam., cir- 

 cular, toothed and angled with rounded margins, smooth 

 above, white-felted beneath, upper smaller, sessile, lower 

 long-stalked, more or less winged, wing often toothed ; 

 flowers small, wliite or pale yellow in heads I in. diam., 

 in loose branching racemes, branches slender, sticky from 

 glands towards the ends, bracts of heads 5, green, spread- 

 ing, bent back in fruit, flowers about 10, 4-5-lobed, outer 

 only fertile, pappus none, anther-bases entire or minutely 

 2-toothed, style-arms short, broad ; achenes long, club- 

 shaped, covered with stalked glands. 



Artemisia 

 Dracunculus, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



