PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



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Herbs, ekect, with Alteenate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



Flowers Minute in Heads, 



Flowers, Inner Tubular, Outer Ligulate. 



Solidago Virga-aurea, 



Rhyncospermum verticil- 

 latum, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 248. 

 Himalaya 5-6,000 ft. 

 Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Aster Pseudamellus, 



Composite. 

 F, B. I, iii. 249. 

 Himalaya, 8-9,000 ft. 

 Lahoul (Jaeshke). 



Aster Amelius, Michael- 

 mas Daisy, 



COMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 249. 



The Plains to 8,000 ft. 



Cultivated, 



Aster moliiusculus, 



Composite, 



F. B. I. iii. 251. 



Himalaya, 5-8,000 ft. 



Simla (Collett). 



Kashmir, 



Aster altaicus, 



Composit,^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 251. 

 Himalaya, 9-13,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Lahoul, 

 Baluchistan . 



margins wavy, achenes. ^ in., short, broad, top- 

 shaped densely silky. 



see Herbs, IJnbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



medium-size to large, velvety, branches slender, 

 spreading ; leaves 1-3 in., lanceolate, long-pointed 

 thin, narrowed into a very slender stalk, some- 

 times toothed, ttowers all white or inner pale 

 yeUow, very minute in small heads, J in. diam., 

 on short stalks or one in every axil of the 

 branches, bracts of the heads few lanceolate, 

 edges thin, dry receptacle flat, bare, corollas, 

 outer in 2-3 series, white, shortly ligulate, 

 male, inner short, tubular bell-shaped, 4-5-tooth- 

 ed, anther-bases blunt or 2-lobed, pappus hair 

 3-5 or none soon falling off ; achenes flattened, 

 beaked, 



small to medium-size, rootstock perennial, stems 

 many, undivided below, branched above, slender 

 leafy, rough ; leaves ]-2|- by ^-| in., green, oblong, 

 short-pointed or blunt, sometimes toothed, sessile ; 

 flowers outer 12-16, ^-^ in., purplish, inner yellow, 

 in heads If in. diam., forming flat topped clusters, 

 bracts oi the heads few, outer large, blunt, green, 

 anther-bases blunt, entire, pappus hairs longer than 

 the achenes, white, slender, few ; achenes -^^ in., 

 flattened, velvety, one to three ribbed. 



very like the last, but with smaller outer bracts. 

 This plant may be found as an escape near gardens 



medium size, velvety or hairy, rootstock peren- 

 nial, woody, stem many, leafy, slender, stift' ; 

 leaves i-1 in., linear or lanceolate, sometimes 

 toothed, nearly sessile, flowers like the last specie.=i. 

 the heads smaller i-f in., solitiiry, long-stalked, 

 bracts of the heads long-pointed, ligules very 

 many pappus reddish ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



very like the last, but much larger, stem 

 grooved, much branched leaves sessile. 



