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Plants of ike Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobbd Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulate. 



Lactuca dissecta, 



CoMPOSITiB. 



F. B. I. iii. 405. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir, Sakesar, 

 Salt Eange, 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Lactuca longifolia, 



CoMPOSITiBJ. 



F. B. I. iii. 405. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-9,000 ft. 

 Shall, Daha 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Lactuca 

 rapunculoides, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 407. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Lahul. 



Lactuca decipiens, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 407. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Dras. 



Lactuca hastata, 



CoMPOSITyE. 



P. B. I. iii. 407. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-12,000 ft. 

 Simla, Theog, in 

 forest (Collett). 



very Hke the last species, but flowers blue, beak of 

 achenes shorter, twice the body, heads ^| in. long. 



like the last, but the leaves are often entire with forked 

 base and half pinnately cut lobes, very long, linear, beak of 

 achenes shorter, only equal in length to the body or less. 



medium size to large, perennial, root tuberous or 

 spindle-shaped, often unbranched, leafy, smooth or slight- 

 ly bristly above, leaves, lower long-stalked, heart- or tri- 

 angular-shaped with margins incurved or variously toothed, 

 upper with winged stalks, forked at the base with 2 

 lobes, uppermost nearly sessile, often lanceolate, heads 

 |-| in., blue or purple, drooping in clusters, bracts of heads 

 very small, inner few, very narrow with dilated tips, 

 achenes | in. long, very narrow, slightly flattened with 

 rounded edges, narrowed into a brown beak, pappus dirty 

 white ; for other characters see the last species. 



like the last, but the leaves are much lobed, heads 

 much larger, f in. long. 



like the last, but much larger, leaves sometimes a 

 foot long, heads | in. long, achenes quite flat, achenes 

 contracted into a brown cleft tip in wliich the white beak 

 is situated. 



