Pulicaria. 987 
fig. 1. — Erigeron siculum L. Spec. Plant.I, p. 1210. — Jasonia 
sicula DC. ap. Decaisn. Flor. Sinaic., p. 23. — An annual herbaceous 
erect plant, scabrid-hirsute, mostly branching from the base or from 
the middle. Lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, somewhat toothed, 
narrowed at the base, hirtulous; the cauline ones numerous narrowly 
and shortly linear often convolute at the margin, auricled-semiam- 
plexicaul. Capitula small, 1—2 cm long, terminal, solitary or 
nearly so on pedicels with bracts. Scales of the involucre herba- 
ceous; the outer ones linear, acute; the inner ones acuminate, longer, 
scarious on the margin. Receptacle plane-convex, areolate, naked, 
4—5 mm diameter. Ligules as long as the involucrai-scales. — 
Achenes oblong, setulose. Pappus of 18—25 setae, twice as long 
as the achenes, barbellate toward the tips. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Merabe’ in (Maire). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Spain, France, 
Italy and Greece. 
1359. (3.) Pulicaria undulata DC. Prodrom. V (1836), p. 479. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.85 no. 521. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 244. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 202. — Puli- 
caria incisa DC. Prodrom.V, p.479. — Pulicaria orientalis Jaub. 
and Spach Illustr. Plant. Or. IV, p. 65 tab. 342 (only a form with 
outer involucral scales somewhat spathulate and obtuse). — Pulicaria 
aromatica Br. in Salt, Abyss. App., p. XV (mame only). — LHreet 
much branched annual or biennial 15—60 cm high, more or less 
hoary-lanuginous or occasionally pubescent; branches terete striate. 
Leaves oblanceolate or oblong or uppermost linear, obtuse or upper- 
most subacute, dentate, often undulate, auriculate-amplexicaul, 1 to 
5 cm long, by 3—6 mm wide. Capitula subhemispherical, 5—8 mm 
diameter, many-flowered, solitary, terminal and subterminal, radiate, 
on peduncles 5mm to 2'/, em long. Scales of the involucre sub- 
4-seriate, glandular-puberulous, linear, acute, subappressed; outer 
shorter, sometimes spathulate and subobtuse. Receptacle areolate, 
5—8 mm diameter. Achenes obovoid-oblong, setulose, terete, ob- 
scurely ribbed. Pappus biseriate; outer cup-shaped. dentate; inner 
of about 14—15 scabrid setae, rather dilated and notched at the 
tip. — Flow. February to March. 
D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. A common plant in sandy and 
caleanous places. 
Local name: ghobeyra (Del.); kutkat (Schweinfurth); generally; 
rabbi. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
