Plants of the Punjab. 



481 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals united. 



Pterotheca 

 Falconeri, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 399. 



Himalaya, 

 5-9,000'ft. 

 Matiana, Baghi 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Hieracium crocatum, 

 Hawk's weed, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 400. 



Himalaya, 



west of the Sutlej, 



6-8,000 ft. 



Dalhousie. 



Kashmir. 



Hieracium virosum, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 400. 

 Kashmir. 

 7-8,000 ft. 

 Srinagar. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all ligulatb. 



small to medium size, annual, stems many, rough, or glan- 

 dular or smoothish ; leaves radical, 2-8 in., nearly sessile, 

 ovate with a broad tip or long and spoon-shaped, toothed or 

 pinnately divided ; flowers yellow, in heads ^-f in. diam., 

 on slender stalks, bracts of receptacle velvety, inner ones 

 8-10, equal, linear, short-pointed, outer few, small, usually 

 spreading, receptacle flat, hairy, ligules long, broad, spread- 

 ing, 5-toothed ; achenes -|- in., Hnear, prominently ribbed, 

 minutely wrinkled, narrowed to both ends, not beaked, 

 red when ripe, pappus very short, soft, white, not feathery. 



medium size, perennial, smooth or hairy, juice milky, 

 stem 12-24 in., straight, sometimes branched, leafy ; leaves 

 radical none, stem leaves 1-5 in., sessile, oblong with round 

 ends, linear-oblong or lanceolate, waxy beneath, base 

 rounded, or heart-shaped, entire or toothed ; flowers yel- 

 low, in heads | in. diam., few or many and erect on downy, 

 hairy, or smooth stalks, bracts of receptacle smooth, flat- 

 lying, blunt, outer often slender, recurved, ligules 5-toothed, 

 long, spreading, pappus copious, rough, rigid, brittle, 

 tawny ; achenes ^ in., cylindric, faintly ribbed, black, 

 shining, not beaked. 



medium size, perennial, smooth or very little hairy 

 \vaxy green, stem stout, leafy, stiff, leaves 1-3 in., sessile, 

 short, leathery, oblong-ovate, base heart-shaped, toothed, 

 crowded, smooth above, slightly bristly on the margins 

 and beneath, flowers yellow, in many heads, f in. diam., 

 in short terminal bracteate umbellate flat-topped clusters, 

 stalks short, stout, bracteolate, bracts of receptacle smooth, 

 outermost small, spreading, achenes j\ in., red-brown ; 

 for other characters see the last species. 



Lactuca 

 rapunculoides, 



Lactuca Lessertiana, 



Lactuca 

 sagittarioides, 



Lactuca polycephala, 



Prenanthes 

 BruDoniana, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



