330 Lxxviii. C0MP0SIT2B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Artemisia, 



A, Ahsinthium, but the root is clearly animal and the receptacle is glabrous ; the 

 specimens are very poor and also reseiable A. Sieversicma ; it is properly a garden plant. 



A. i,EPTOPHTixA, Don Prodr. 182 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 126 j " silky, leaves bipinnate 

 linear-subulate acute rarely divided, stem ascending simple leafy, flowers unknown." 

 — "Alpine region of Nipal, Wallich ; very near A. pontica." — It is impossible to recog- 

 nise this by the description. 



A. Gmelini, var. 5, JacquemonUarta, and var. |, Cashmyrica, Bess. Monog, Abrot. 

 Slippl. 40 & 41 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 107, may be forms of milgwris, vestiia, or Boxburffhiana. 



A. MOLtissiMA, Don, Prodr. 182 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 125 ; "wholly clothed with white 

 wool, stem erect simple a span high angled, leaves 2 in. spreading elegantly sub- 

 S-pinnate leaflets linear-lanceolate flat quite entire mucronate, heads axillary sessile 

 woolly, invol. bracts linear mucronate. — Sirinagur." — This is undeterminable. 



A. KOHATicA, Klatt in Sitewig. Miinch. Akad. 1878, 91. The meagre description 

 does not even state to what section of the genus this plant belongs. 



Tbibe yii.— senecxoitxdes:. 



73. TITSSIZrAeO, L. 



A white, woolly, scapigerous herb, with a perennial storoniferous root-stock. 

 Leaves all radical, coming after the flowers, orbicular-cordate, toothed. Heads 

 solitary, heterogamous, radiate, yellow ; ray-fl. J oo -seriate, fertile, ligule 

 narrow spreading ; disk-fl. 5 > sterile, tubular, limb elongate 5-fid. Involuuyre 

 campanulate or cyUndric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, with a few very small outer 

 ones ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-hoses entire or subauricled. Style-arms of 

 § entire, obtuse. Achenes of 5 linear, 5-10-ribbed, with slender rough pappus- 

 hairs ; of g slender, empty, pappus scanty. 



1. T. Farfara, Zmn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 377; DC. Prodr. vi. 208 ;. 

 aarke Comp. Ind. 166. T. rupestris, Wcdl. Cat. 2990. 



Western Himaiata; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 6-11,000 ft., Blm&worth, 

 &c. — DiSTBiB. N. & W. Asia, N. Africa, Europe. 



Leaves long petioled, 3-10 in. broad, cobwebby above, white-tomentose beneath.. 

 Scapes 1 or more, 4-10 in., tomentose, scaly. Head 1-lJ in. diam., bright yellow,, 

 drooping in bud. Pappus soft, snow-white. 



74. CREMANTKODIUia, Benth. 



Perennial scapigerous herbs. Leaves chiefly radical, cordate or reniform,. 

 toothed, rarely pinnatifid. Heads soUtary on a leafless or 1-2-leaved or brac- 

 teate scape, always nodding or deflexed, heterogamous, radiate, yellow or pale 



5 ink ; ray-fl. 2 , 1-seriate, fertile, ligule large spreading 2-4-toothed ; disk-fl. 

 J , fertile, tubular, limb cylindric 6-fid. Involucve campanulate or hemispheric, 

 bracts 1-seriate, membranous ; receptacle flat, naked, pitted. Anther-bases sub- 

 entire. Style-arms short or long, flattened, ohtuse or acute. Achenes angled, 

 5-10-striate, glabrous ; pappus-hairs copious, white or reddish, slender, rough or 

 barbellate. — Disieib. Species 8, all Himalayan. 



This genus is hardly distinguishable from Senecio, § lAgvlaria. The species are 

 probably unduly multiplied, but more specimens are required to determine their 

 limits; the involucral bracts vary much in most, in number, length, breadth, and in 

 being glabrous or pubescent ; all the species are nearly glabrous with black or brown 

 pubescence at the top of the scape and base of the involucre. The style-arms differ 

 much in the various species. The bracts are as in Senecio, § lAgularia, 1-seriate, but. 

 overlap in two series ; the heads are ecalyculate in all. 



* Nerves of leaf radiating from the petiole. 



1. C. reniforme, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1141 ; nearly glabrous,. 

 12-18 in. high, leaves long-petioled reniform or orbicular sinuate-toothed 



