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378. (1.) Eryngium Linn. 
Calyx-lobes rigid, acute or pungent-pointed. Petals erect, with 
reduplicate or recurved margins and a long induplicate point, scarcely 
imbricate in the bud. Disk with a thick raised margin encircling 
the styles. Fruit obovoid or ovoid, scarcely compressed, the ribs 
inconspicuous, without vittae. Carpophore deciduous. — Herbs with 
prickly leaves and involucres. Flowers in compact spikes or heads, 
with a bract under each flower, the outer ones and sometimes 
some of the inner ones much longer than the flowers, rigid and 
pungent-pointed. Calyx-tube covered with transparent, acuminate or 
obtuse, flat or vesicular scales. 
The genus is spread over the greater part of the warm and temperate 
regions of the globe, the species most abundant and most varied in 8. America. 
AGPRaledetentine’ Auta. (RUMBRUESIEU) SPER dd. 1. H. campestre. 
BeAllithe paleacitrieuspid ay AWS to tet ek 2. E. creticum. 
973. Eryngium campestre L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 337. 
—- Boiss. Flor. Or. U, p.824. — Rehbch. Ie. XXI, tab. 11. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.79 no. 457. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Ee., p. 239. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 648 
no. 129. — A perennial herb, 35—50 cm high, often somewhat 
more, glaucous-green, corymbose above. Leaves coriaceous, the radical 
ones ovate in outline, 3—5-palmatisect, with decurrent, pinnati- 
sect, prickly-toothed or incised, more or less overlapping segments, 
the stem-leaves auricled-clasping, 2-pinnatisect, prickly-toothed. In- 
volucre-leaves 5—7, linear to linear-lanceolate, subulate, 2—4- 
prickly at the base, twice to twice and a half as long as the 1,2 to 
1,5 cm long head. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Mariut; Abusir; Alexandria-West 
and -Kast to Abukir. — In great luxuriance, everywhere on the 
clayey and gravelly plains. 
Local name: shaqaqil (Forsk.); fuggé (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Tunisia, Algeria, Tripolitania, Middle- and Southern 
Europe and Asia Minor. 
974. Eryngium creticum Lam. Dict. IV (1797), p. 754. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 827. — Rehbch. Ic. XXI, fig. 1850. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 79 no. 458. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 239. — Eryngium cyaneum Sibth. and Smith Flor. Graec., 
tab. 258. — Eryngium syriacum Moris., Sect.7 tab. 37 fig. 13. — 
Eryngium coeruleum montis Libani Munting. Phyt., tab.127. — A 
perennial herb, 30—50 cm high or somewhat more, blue, divaricately 
much branched, corymbose. Root-leaves soon withering, long- 
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