974 Compositae. 
pappus slender, equalling the florets. — Annual herbs, usually 
cottony or tomentose. Leaves alternate, entire. Heads of capitula 
cottony, usually involucrate, of the primary axis overtopped by 
axillary branches originating immediately below and terminating in 
similar heads. 
A small genus of Europe, Asia and North Africa, one or two being 
widely diffused weeds. 
A; Capitula numerous. ... «2%. « ¢i2 3. . . 15 BS spathmeree 
BP oapivolacsolitary 70:5 k- ree otrel vel or cite sel vee ta as . 2. F. mareotica. 
1337. (1.) Filago spathulata Pres] Del. Prag. (1822), p. 93. 
— var. prostrata (Paerl.) Boiss. Flor. Or. HII (1875), p. 246. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 88 no. 544. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. @’Eg., p.245. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
Supplem. p. 260. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 798 no. 139. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 653 no. 162. — Filago 
prostrata Parlat. Piant. Nuov., p.11. — An annual plant, much 
branched, prostrate. Leaves numerous, erect, oblong to linear- 
lanceolate, those of the stem not tapering at the base. Clusters 
dense, globular, sessile in the forks or terminal; headlets 20—30; 
involucre obconical, obtusely pentagonal; scales erect, loose, lanceolate, 
with a tapering subulate point. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena’is; Matruqa; Abusir; Alexandria- 
West and -East; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; El-’Arish. — 
D. |. D. a. sept. Common in deep sandy places. 
Local name: kurbat (Muschler). 
Common in all parts of the Mediterranean basin. 
1338. (2.) Filago mareotica Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. (1813), 
p. 274 tab. 47 fig. 2. — Boiss. Flor. Or. Hl, p. 246. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 88 no. 545. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
WEg., p. 245. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 653 
no. 164. — Filago ramosissima Lange in Ind. Hort. Hauniensis (1855), 
p- 24. — Willk. and Lange Prodrom. Flor. Hisp. II, p. 55. — Filago 
floribunda Batt. and Trab. Fl. Alg. I, p.442. — A small annual 
plant 2—4 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, appressed canescent- 
hairy, branching from the base, branches somewhat indurate. Leaves 
short, erect, linear-oblong, the floral-ones as long as the heads and 
often involucral-like; heads ovate, solitary or rarely geminate; 
involucral scales tomentose pentagonous scarious, imbricated, erect, 
in 5 rows concave, oblong-lanceolate acute and often somewhat 
obtuse. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena’is; Matruqa; Mariut; Alexandria- 
West and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. 
Also known from Southern Spain, Tunisia and Tripolitania. 
