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Plants oj tlie Punjab, 



Peostrate Herbs with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves, 



Petals united. 



Grangea 

 maderaspatana, 



Mustaru. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 246. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



Glossocardia 

 linearifolia, 



Seri. 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 308. 



The Plains, 



east of the Sutlej. 



Delhi. 



Chrysanthellum 

 indicum, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 310. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft., 

 in west sandy 

 ground. 



Tridax procumbens, 



Composite. 

 F. B. L iii. 311. 

 The Plains. 



small, perennial, softly hairy, prostrate, a weed, form- 

 ing patches, 6-12 in. wide ; leaves pinnately divided with 

 gaps ; flowers j'ellow, in almost round solitary leaf-opposed 

 shortly stalked heads, corollas tubular, outer 4-5-cleft, 

 bracts in few series, outer green, floor of head convex, 

 naked ; achenes flattened, pappus hairs united into a cylin- 

 drical fringed tube. 



small, annual, usually prostrate, smooth, smells like 

 fennel, branches 3-10 in., grooved ; leaves |-2 in. long, 

 slender, pinnately divided on slender stalks, segments nar- 

 rowly linear, with a small tip on a straight edge ; flowers 

 yellow, inner tubular, outer ligulate, on small terminal axil- 

 lary heads, ^ in., ligule 2-fid, outer bracts of head small, 

 usuallj^ 3 with a green midrib, thin, margin bristly, inner 

 larger, oblong, blunt, smooth with thin margins ; achenes 

 I in., densely bearded with stiff hairs, pappus of 2 smooth 

 spreading tufts of bristles. This plant is used sometimes 

 for food and as a medicine. 



small, annual, lying on the ground, smooth, stems stiff, 

 square, grooved, smooth, or rough ; leaves 1-3 in. long, 

 triangular pinnately divided, stalk dilated at the sheath- 

 ing base, segments oblong or wedge-shaped with the broad 

 end outwards, bluntly lobed or cut, with an abrupt point 

 at the apex of each division, succulent, translucent ; flowers 

 yellow, inner tubular, outer ligulate in small stalked termi- 

 nal axillary heads, J in. diam., enlarging in fruit, bracts in 

 1-2-series, equal to the achenes, oblong or narrow tapering 

 to each end, hgules spreading, entire or 2-toothed, pappus 

 of a minute crown : achenes ~ in. long, very thick, oblong, 

 wedge-shaped with the broad end upwards, grooved, 

 margin smooth. 



small, perennial, weak, straggling along the ground* 

 hairy, stems 12-24 in., a few leaves scattered along them ; 

 leaves 1-2 in. long, pinnately divided, ovate or lanceolate, 

 segments few, narrow, deeply irregularly toothed ; flowers 

 yellow and white, inner tubular white, outer hgulate yellow 

 in very long stalked heads, f in. diam., floor of head flat 

 or convex, bracts of head few, outer short, broad, green, 

 corollas inner tubular, 5-fid, outer 3-fid ; achenes brown, 

 topshaped or oblong, silky, pappus hairs ^ in. long, 

 shining, feathery. 



Cotwla anthemoides, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 



