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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate ExsTiprLATE Lobed Leaves, 



Petals none. 



Spinacia oleracea, 

 Spinach, 



Valayati sag, polak. 

 Chenopodiace^. 

 P. B. L V. 5. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 (Cultivated). 



Aquilegia vulgaris, 

 Columbine, 



Ranunculace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 23. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir, 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Actsea spicata, 

 Baneberry; 

 Herb Christopher, 



Eanunculace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 29. 



Himalaya, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Narkanda (Collett). 

 Hazara. 



Cimieifuga foetida, 



Jiunti. 



Ranunculace^. 

 F. B.I.i. 29. 

 Himalava, 

 7-12,000 ft. 

 Patamala (Collett). 

 Hattu. 



medium size, annual, smooth ; leaves angular, ovate, 

 long-pointed, broadly sharply pinnately lobed ; flowers 

 minute, greenish, males and females on different plants, 

 male flowers in terminal leafless spikes, sepals 4-5, green, 

 undivided, stamens 4-5, thread-like, female flowers in 

 axillary clusters, calyx 2-4-toothed, in fruit enclosing 

 the seed vessel, stigmas long, thread-like, united below, 

 seed vessel hard, flattened, seed vertical. The leaves are 

 eaten as a vegetable, and as a solvent of urinary calculi. 



Compound leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



medium size, root perennial, thinly hairy, stems leafy ; 

 leaves mth a waxy green gloss, lower long-stalked 

 pinnate, pimiules with 3 leaflets, upper shortly stalked, leaf- 

 lets 3, deeply 3-lobed, segments coarsely round-toothed; 

 flowers 1 in. diam., yellow-green, nearly white or purplish, 

 drooping in a loose branching raceme with a few sessile 

 leaves at the forks, sepals 5, flat, ovate-lanceolate, soon 

 falling off, petals 5, base of each produced into a blunt 

 hooked spur, projecting between the sepals, stamens many, 

 inner ones reduced to scales ; follicles 5, sessile, tipped 

 with the persistent styles, many-seeded. 



medium size, perennial, rootstock woody, horizontal, 

 covered "with leafless sheaths ; leaves 12 in., pinnately com- 

 pound, pinnules often "with 3 leaflets, leaflets ovate-lance- 

 olate, pointed, often lobed, pointed, deeply and sharply 

 4oothed ; flowers J in. diam., white, crowded in short ter- 

 minal racemes, lengthening in fruit, sepals 4, petal-Uke, 

 concave, soon falling off, petals 4, shorter than the sepals, 

 stamens many, stigma sessile, flat ; berry ovoid, black, 

 smooth, seeds many, flat, smooth. This plant is not used 

 medicinally in ihis country. In America the poisonous 

 nature of the berries is known, the plant is used for rheu- 

 matic and nervous diseases. 



large, perennial, leafy, smooth below, felted above ; 

 leaves 6-18 in., pinnately compound, leaflets 1-3 in., ovate 

 or lanceolate, deeply sharply toothed, terminal leaflet 

 3-lobed ; flowers I in. diam., white, crowded in short or 

 long racemes, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves and 

 combined in a terminal sometimes large and spreading 

 branched raceme, sepals and petals 5-7, ovate, concave, one 

 or two of the inner ones deeply 2-lobed, tips white, broad, 



