Plants of the Punjab. 



863 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



corollas 4-toothed, outer conic or none, anther-bases 

 blunt, entire, pappus none ; achenes ovate with thick 

 narrow wings. The plant is used as an application to sore 

 eyes. 



Cotula 

 hemisphserica, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 316. 

 The Plains. 



small, annual, smooth or hairy above, leaf segments 

 very many, linear, terminating in a short hard point, heads 

 drooping in fruit, achenes angled, not winged ; for other 

 characters see the last species. 



Tanacetum gracile, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Tanacetum 

 nubigenum. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Artemisia 



Dracunculus, 



Tarragon, 



Composite, 

 F. B. L iii. 321. 

 Himalaya, 

 14-16,000 ft. 

 Lahul (Jaesckhe). 



medium size, perennial, green, strongly-scented, smooth, 

 stem grooved, ribbed ; leaves radical divided into 3 

 segments or none, stem leaves 1-1^ in., sessile, linear 

 or linear-oblong, entire or toothed ; flowers very minute, 

 greenish in nearly round heads | in. diam., sessile or stalked 

 in branching racemes, bracts of heads broadly oblong with 

 a very broad transparent margin and a very narrow green 

 disk, floor of head naked, pappus none, outer corollas 2-3- 

 toothed, inner 5-toothed, anther-bases blunt, achenes very 

 minute, oblong, faintly streaked. This plant was intro- 

 duced into Europe, and is cultivated for flavouring in 

 cookery, it is not apparently used for this purpose in 

 India. 



Artemisia parviflora, 



Kanyurts. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. L iii. 322. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-10,000 ft. 



medium size to large, perennial, shrubby, scentless, 

 smooth or slightly hairy, stem grooved, much branched, 

 leaves 1-2 in. long, wedge-shaped, stalked or nearly 

 sessile, divided at the tip or entire, all have 2 strap- 

 shaped stipule-like lobes near the base of the leaf stalk, 

 flowers 6-10, very minute, greenish, in round nodding heads 

 ■j?-jj-| in. diam. in long straight branching racemes, achenes 

 oblong with rounded ends, smooth, brown ; for other charac- 

 ters see the last species. 



