910 Plantaginaceae. 
M. ma. M. p. N.d. N.f. N. v. O. Everywhere common in sandy 
and waste places, in fields and on stony ground. A very variable 
species in size and form of the leaves. 
Local name: widne (Aschers.). 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
var. lusitanica ( Willd.) Muschler comb. nov. — Plantago Lagopus 
var. maior Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 886. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ilustr. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 124 no. 854. — Plantago lusitanica Willd. Spec. Plant. I, 
p. 644. — Often with short stems and in all parts larger than the 
type. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. N. d. Common in waste places. 
Local name: widne. 
Also known from the other parts of the Mediterranean region and 
Mesopotamia. 
1262. (9.) Plantago ciliata Desf. Flor. Atlant. I (1798), p. 137 
tab. 39 fig. 3. — Boiss. Flor. Or. 1V, p.887. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p.124 no. 855. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 269. — Deesne. in DC. Prodrom. XIII, fase. I p. 708. — Plantago 
bellidifolia Viv. Egypt. Decad., p.4. — An annual plant, 3—8 cm 
high, or sometimes somewhat more. Silky-canescent, stemless or 
caulescent. Leaves obovate or oblanceolate-spathulate, acutish, 
tapering to a petiole. Peduncles thickish, as long as the leaves or 
shorter; spikes ovate to oblong, 8 mm to 2 cm long; bracts ovate, 
obtuse, green and hirtulous along the midrib, margin broad, scarious, 
long-ciliate; calyx-lobes ovate, scarious, long-ciliate at the margin; 
corolla-lobes lanceolate, long-villous at the outer surface. — Flow. 
March to April. 
D. 1. Sabrigét; Beni-Selama; Kafr Hakim; Abu Roash; Pyra- 
mids of Giza; Pyramids of Zawiyet-el-‘Aryan. — D. a. sept. Cairo; 
Wady Siut near Assiut; Bir Suez, abundantly; Suez. 
Local name: holageyd (Klunzinger). 
Also known from other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
1263. (10.) Plantago crypsioides Boiss. in Flora Orient. IV 
(1879), p. 888. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 124 no. 857. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 269. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Primit. Flor, Marmaric, p. 664 no. 264. — Plantago Coronopus var. 
bombycina Decsne. in DC. Prodrom. XUI, p. 732. — An annual small 
plant, 3—8 em high, or sometimes somewhat more scabridulous. 
Leaves linear or lanceolate acute narrowed at the base trinerved 
entire or somewhat laciniate; scapes fleshy as long as the spikes, 
shorter than the leaves, often recurved; spikes villose, ovate, few- 
