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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Prenanthes 

 Brunoniana, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I.iii. 411. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Flowers, iminute, in heads, all ligulate. 



very like a Lactuca, but the heads are fev^er flowered, 

 narrower, flowers rose-purple, achenes have no beak. 



Prenanthes 

 violsefolia, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Picridium 

 tingltanum, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Sonchus asper, 

 Sow thistle, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 414. 

 The Plains to 

 12,000 it. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



medium size, amiual, flowers from December to April, 

 smooth, succulent, juice milky, stems hollow, grooved or 

 angled ; leaves 6-10 by 2-3 in., radical stalked, hard, pin- 

 nately lobed or lanceolate, toothed, teeth long, unequal, 

 spinous, stem leaves half stem- clasping, forked, basal-lobes 

 recurved, rounded ; flowers yellow, in ovoid many flowered 

 heads |-1 in. diam., forming terminal branching racemes, 

 bracts of heads many, smooth, overlapping, green, outer 

 smaller, floor of head naked, flat, ligules long spreading, 

 5-toothed, pappus copious, white, not feathery ; achenes 

 oval, flattened, S-5-ribbed on each face, minutely trans- 

 versely wrinkled, not beaked. 



Sonchus oleraceus, 

 Sow thistle, 



Do dak. 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. Liii. 414. 



The Plains to 

 8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



very like the last species, but flowers in the summer 

 only, loaves prickly, not spinous, teeth small, tliin, terminal 

 lobn largo. The root and loaves were once used as 

 galactagoguos : the latter are eaten as a vegetable and 

 given to cattle. 



