Krigeron. — Conyza. 965 
entire, thinly strigillose on both sides or glabrate, 1-obscurely 
3-nerved, ranging up to 6 cm long by 6 mm broad. Capitula 
hemispherical, co-flowered, 1— 2 cm diameter, on erect strigose-hispid 
peduncles 2—9 cm long. Seales of involucre subbiseriate, narrowly 
- linear-lanceolate, acute, pilose with whitish spreading rather stiff and 
broad hairs; inner ones rather more and outer ones rather less than 
5mm long. Receptacle naked, 5mm diameter, Ray-flowers 1-seriate, 
purple, not broader than involucral scales and exceeding them by 
about the length of the latter, erect-patent. Interior female flowers 
tubular-filiform, numerous. Achenes narrowly obovoid-oblong, com- 
pressed, with 2 strong lateral nerves, thinly pilose. Pappus uni- 
seriate, subrufous, barbellate, twice length of achene. — Flow. 
February to March. 
M. ma. Behig, in old quarries. 
In mountain pastures, in Northern Europe, Asia, and America, to the 
Arctic regions, and in the higher mountain-ranges farther south. 
1325. (4.) Erigeron crispus Pourr. in Mem. Acad. Toulouse II 
(1788), p. 318. — Erigeron linifolius Willd. Spec. Plant. HI, p. 1955. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p.169. — Rehbch. Ic. XVI, tab. 915. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.84 no. 510. — Conyza ambigua 
DC. Flor. France. V, p.468. —- An annual plant 30—90 cm high, 
rather strict, bearing loosely paniculate heads, hirsute, also some- 
what scabrous with minute apressed pubescence: upper leaves narrowly 
linear, mostly entire, narrowed downward; lowest broader, incisely 
toothed or laciniate; imvolucre cinereous-pubescent: ligules very 
small, shorter than the style and the at length ferruginous pappus. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Behig; Alexandria-West and -Hast; Mandara. 
— N.d. Damanhur; Mansura; Mehallet-el-Kebir; Zaqaziq; Tanta; 
Qalyub; Cairo. — N. f. Medinet-el-Fayim; Sentris; Tenhur; Tamia. 
—N. v. Siut; Luksor; Aswan. — O. Great Oasis. — D. i. Salihiya; 
Ismailia. — D. a. sept. Suez. ) 
Local name: sibl-el-far (Schweinfurth); rihdn-fassed (Schweint.). 
Common in the Tropics and Subtropies of both the New and Old World. 
546. (6.) Conyza Linn. 
Involucre either ovoid with the bracts imbricate in several rows, 
usually broader, more rigid and less acuminate than in Blumea, or 
hemispherical with narrow bracts. Flowers all tubular, those of the 
circumference, female, filiform, usually very numerous, those of the 
disk broader, hermaphrodite, but usually sterile, few, or the heads 
almost dioecious. Anthers with short fine tails or points at the base. 
