Bie 



Plants of the Punjah. 



HerbS; Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulate. 



Cichorium Intybus, 

 Wild Chicory, 



Kasni, hand, gul, 



suchal. 



Composite. 



F. B. I.iii. 391. 



The Plains to 



6,000 ft. 



Simla, Boileauganj 



(CoUett). 



Lapsana communis, 

 Nipplewort, 



Compositje. 

 F.B. I.iii. 391. 

 Kashmir, 

 5-6,000 ft. 



Rhagadiolus 

 Hedypnois, 



Composite. 

 F.B. I.iii. 392. 



Kashmir (Falconer). 



Balucliistan 



(Stocks)^ 



Crepis foetida, 

 Hawk's beard, 



CoMPOSITyE. 



F. B. I. iii. 393. 

 The Plains from 

 1-8,000 ft. 

 Eawalpincli 

 (Douie). 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Orepls sibirica, 



small to medium size, perennial, root tapering, fleshy, 

 stem angled, grooved ; leaves, radical 3-6 in., piunately 

 divided, lobes toothed, pointing backwards, upper leaves 

 small, entire ; flowers blue, in solitary terminal or axillary 

 clustered heads, 1-1| in. • diam., stalk tliickened in the 

 middle, bracts of heads green, glandular-hairy, floor of 

 heads naked or slightly fringed, corollas ail with 5-toothed 

 hgules, style-arms long, pappus of short, erect, blunt 

 scales ; achenes small, pale, angled with the crown of 

 pappus scales. The cultivated variety of this, C. Endivia, 

 is found in a few places. 



medium size, annual, smooth or hairy, much-branched, 

 leafy ; leaves, lower stalked, pimiately divided, terminal 

 lobe largest, toothed, stem leaves ovate, upper hnear, 

 entire ; flowers yellow, in many small loosely clustered 

 heads, ^ in. long, on short slender naked stalks, bracts 

 of heads 8-10, hnear, stiff, keeled, blunt, smooth or 

 glandular, floor of heads flat, naked, pappus none ; achenes 

 I in., pale, sliining, curved, 20-30 ribbed, ribs slender. 



small, annual, smooth or slightly hairy, branches 

 many from the root ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate-oblong, pimiately 

 divided or toothed ; flowers yellow, in axillary or terminal 

 heads, |-| in., bracts of the heads in one series, later on 

 keeled and embracing the outer achenes, floor of heads 

 naked, pappus of inner flowers scaly, outer short ; achenes 

 I'l in., longer than the bracts, curved, narrow, smooth, 

 beaked. 



small, annual, rough, branches many from the root ; 

 leaves, lower 2-6 in., pinnatoly divided, toothed, end lobe 

 the largest, upper smaller, toothed or entire, heart-shaped, 

 base half stem-clasping ; flowers bright yoUow, in long-stalk- 

 ed (in bud droo]ting), terminal clustered heads, ^ in. diam., 

 bracts of heads many, outer rough with hooked hairs, 

 then hardened and keeled, floor of heads flat, naked, pappus 

 I in., soft, dirty white, corollas all hgulate, hgules long, 

 5-toothed ; achenes, outer | in., curved, pale, inner 

 I'l in., straight, many -ribbed, red brown, beak very slender 

 equal to the body. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



