972 Compositae. 
551. (11.) Evax Linn. 
Heads small, many-flowered, discoid, aggregated, in dense clusters. 
Involucral-bracts in about one row, scarious gradually passing into 
pales on the receptacle. Receptacle conical, naked at the tip. 
Marginal flowers female, in many rows, filiform, denticulate, each 
set in the axil of a bract; central flowers few, male, 4-toothed. 
Anthers caudate at the base. Branches of the style filiform. Achenes 
compressed, rarely somewhat terete or oblong, bald. — Small, white- 
woolly herbs, almost stamless. 
A small genus widely distributed in Southern Europe and the Medi- 
terranean region. 
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A. Achenes ovate, pruinous . .... . .. < + » - ol. By contracts, 
B. Achenes oblong-cylindrical, scarious . ... . .. Y%. EK. anatolica. 
1334. (1.) Evax contracta Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., ser. I 
fase. XI (1849), p. 3. — Flor. Or. IH, p. 243. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 88 no. 542. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d@’Eg., 
p. 245. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 653 no. 165. 
A small annual plant. 5—10 cm high, or rarely more, stemless, 
or 1—2-branched from the neck. Leaves oblong to spathulate, 
tapering to a petiole, with dilated sheath. Woolly scales of the 
involucre and ovate pales with abruptly acuminate setaceous tip. 
Achenes ovate, pruinose. —- Flow. February to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West 
and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Mediterranean 
region of Europe and Syria. 
1335. (2.) Evax anatolica Boiss. and Heldr. Diagnos. Plant. 
Orient., Ser. I fasc. XI (1849) p. 2. — Flor. Or. III, p. 243. -— Post 
Flor. of Palest. Lin. and Syria, p.414. — Evax palaestina Boiss. Diagnos. 
Plant. Or., ser. I fase. XI p. 2 (only a larger form.). — An annual 
herb, 2—5 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, stemless or 
branching, from the neck or above. Leaves oblong to linear-lanceo- 
late, acute, 2—3-times as long as the cluster. Scales of the involucre 
and pales oblong-spathulate, boat-shaped, narrow at the glabrous 
base, woolly at the back, tapering abruptly into a short, slender 
point protruding a little from the wool; achenes oblong-cylindrical, 
barely compressed, slightly scabrous. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Behig rare (Muschler). 
Also known from Greece, Arabia Petraea Palestine, Syria and Meso- 
potamia. 
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