132 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals United. 



Flowers Minute in Heads. 



Inner Tubular, Outer Ligulate. 



Brachyactis umbrosa, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 253. 

 Himalaya, 8-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Lahoul, 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Brachyactis robusta, 

 Erigeron linifolius, 



Erigeron canadensis, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 254. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Ergeron asteroides, 



Erigeron alpinus, var 

 multicaulis. 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 255. 

 Himalaya, 3-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Oollett.) 



Erigeron multiradiatus, 



Composite. 



F. B. L iii. 256. 



Himalaya, 7-9,000 ft. 



Hattu (Oollett). 



Kashmir. 



small, annual, glandular and softly hairy, branch- 

 ed from the base, leafy ; leaves f-| in., ovate with 

 a broad tip, or with small lobes or wedge-shaped ; 

 flowers pale blue or pink in many sessile or long- 

 stalked heads ^ in. diam., one in nearly every 

 leaf-axil, bracts of the heads ^ as long as the 

 flowers in 2-3 series, narrow, outer often leafy, 

 corollas inner tubular, 5 toothed, outer ligulate 

 minute in one to many series, anther-bases blunt, 

 entire, style-arms narrow, flattened, tips lanceolate, 

 pappus hairs ^ in., reddish, scanty ; achenes jV 

 in., quite flat. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Toothed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 

 Toothed. 



small to large, annual, slender, much branched, 

 velvety, hairy or nearly smooth, leafy ; leaves 1-3 

 in., narrowly linear, or linear-lanceolate, long- 

 pointed, sometimes remotely toothed, smooth or 

 hairy ; flower, inner yellow, outer pink or purplish 

 in stalked heads, ^-J in. diam. in long-branched 

 racemes, bracts of the heads narrow, long-pointed, 

 smooth, or hairy, margins thin, corollas, inner 

 tubular 5-toothed, outer ligulate, in several series, 

 hardly longer than the pappus ; anther-bases blunt, 

 pappus hairs white, becoming reddish ; achenes -^-r^ 

 in., narrow, flat, smooth. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 

 Toothed. 



small to medium-size, biennial or perennial, hairj- 

 or velvety, stems many, often tufted, much bran- 

 ched from the base, branches slender, leaves, 

 radical oblong stalked spreading, stem leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate 1-2|- by l-^- in. or ovate with a 

 broad tip 2 by | in sometimes toothed, short- 

 pointed or blunt, heads long-stalked, solitary or in 

 flat-topped clusters i-f in. diam., bracts of the 

 heads velvety or woolly ; otherwise like the last 

 species, 



very like the last species, but the heads are 

 much larger, 2-3 in. diam., ligules purple, very 

 many, much longer than the pappus. 



