834 



Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 







Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



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



Brachyactis 

 menthodora, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 253. 

 Sincl Valley. 

 Kashmir, 12,000 ft. 

 (Clarke). 



medium size, root peremiial, stem anmial, glandular, 

 velvety, odour of mint, stiff, branches short, erect ; leaves 

 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, ovate, sharply toothed, lower 

 long-stalked, upper sessile, half stem-clasping, prolonged 

 down the stem ; flowers, outer bluish, inner yellow, in heads 

 |-§ in. towards the top of the stem, or the ends of the 

 branches, bracts of the heads green, few, in 2-3 series, hnear, 

 velvety, half as long as the flowers, 1-2, outer often much 

 larger and leafy, floor of head not pitted, corollas, inner 5- 

 toothed, outer minutely hgulate, pappus -i- in., reddish, 

 anther-bases blunt, not divided, style-arms narrow, flat- 

 tened, tips narrowly lanceolate ; achenes ^l in,, quite flat, 

 nearly smooth, margins thickened. 



Erigeron linifolius, 

 Flea bane, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 254. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Simla (CoUett). 



medium size to large, annual, more or less hairy, much 

 branched ; leaves l|-4 in., Hnear, often entire, sessile, 

 crowded ; flowers minute, inner yellow, outer pale purple 

 or white in heads |in. diam., on many slender stalks form- 

 ing a leafy flat-topped branching raceme, bracts of heads 

 in few series, floor of head naked, flat or sHghtly convex, 

 pappus often double, the outer of a few hairs or bristles, 

 corollas, inner tubular, 5-toothed, outer in several rows, 

 ligulate, ligules short or long, entire or minutely toothed, 

 anther-bases blunt, entire, style-arms flattened, tips lance- 

 olate, long or short ; achenes flattened, beaked. A garden 

 escape. 



Erigoron canadensis. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Erigeron asteroides. 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 254. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



medium size, annual, velvety or hairy, with stickj^ 

 gLands, leaves 1-2 in., oblong or ovate with a broad tip, 

 stalked, often lobulate, stem leaves |-1 in., half stem-clasp- 

 ing, flowers in heads |-| in. diam., stalked, solitary or nearly 

 clustered, ligules very narrow, blue, rather longer than the 

 reddish or dirty-white pappus, bracts of the heads very 

 narrow with hair points, much shorter than the pappus ; 

 achenes -^^J in., nearly smooth ; for other characters see 

 the last described species, 



