Scabiosa. 931 
529. (3.) Seabtosa Linn. 
Herbs, either annual or with a perennial stock, becoming shrubby 
in some exotic species, without prickles. Heads of flowers hemi- 
spherical or globular, with an involucre of small, green, not prickly 
bracts. Involucels various. Corolla 4- or 5-lobed, often oblique. 
Ovary and fruit crowned by the little cup-shaped calycine border, 
with 4, 5, or more teeth or bristles. 
This, the principal genus of the family, belongs chiefly to the Mediter- 
ranean region. a few species extending over the rest of Europe and tempe- 
rate Asia. 
A. Whole length of the tube of the involucel 8- 
ribbed. 
I. Leaves of the involucre shorter than the head 1. S. arenaria. 
I. Leaves of the involucre longer than the head 2. S. eremophila. 
B. Tube of the involucel not ribbed below, deeply 
S-pittedtabovels. Onto: at 2tl.diiaiite ih Ws Aaah: 3. S. Aucheri. 
1295. (1.) Seabiosa arenaria Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab. (1775), 
p- LXI. — Boiss. Flor. Or. HI, p. 135. — Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., 
tab. 63 fig. 8. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 84 no. 505, — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.652 no. 154. — Aschers. 
Flor. Sirbon., p. 812 no. 19. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 243. 
— Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 798 no. 134. — An annual herb, 
20—30 em high or rarely somewhat more, puberulent-scabrous. 
Root-leaves oblong, pinnatipartite or cut into oblong-linear lobes; 
lobes of upper leaves filiform. Leaves of the involucre shorter than 
the head; corollas white, radiating; tube of the involucel short, ribs 
and margin of the crown ciliate; awns of calyx 5, twice as long 
as the crown. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mamarica: Matruqa; Abusir; Mariut; Montaza; Alexan— 
dria-West and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Gels-Mohamediya: 
el-‘Arish. — D. i. Gebel-Ekhfén. 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania and Arabia Petraea. 
1296. (2.) Scabiosa eremophila Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient., 
Ser. I fasc. X (1849) p. 79. — Flor. Or. III, p. 135. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 84 no. 506. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p- 243. — A small annual plant, 4-10 cm high, rarely 
somewhat more, puberulent. Root-leaves oblong-linear, entire or 
pinnatifid at the base, upper ones linear, entire. Leaves of the involucre 
loner than the head; crorollas flesh-coloured, not radiating; tube 
of the involucel hemisperical, puberulent; margin of the crown ciliate; 
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