988 Compositae. 
1360. (4.) Pulicaria inuloides DC. Prodrom. V (1836), p.480. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dEg., p. 86 no. 520. — Pulicaria 
longifolia Boiss. Flor. Or. HI, p. 202. — A perennial plant, 30 to 
60 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, viscid, hirtulous, with 
short hairs tubercled at the base; stems panicled or corymbosed 
above. Leaves 6—8 cm long, nearly entire the lower ones linear- 
oblong, with long tapering base, the upper ones linear, half-clasping, 
minutely auricled. Heads 1 cm broad, long-peduncled; scales of 
the involucre hirsute, linear, ocuminate; rays 3-toothed, not longer 
than the involucre; brustles of the pappus about ten, twice as long 
as the achenes. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. N.f. O. v. O. D. a. sept. In sandy and waste places a 
common plant. 
Local name: damsis; rara (Ascherson). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1361. (5.) Pulicaria crispa Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant. II 
(1373), p. 336. — Francoueria crispa Cass. in Dict. Scienc. Natur. 
XXXIV (1825), p.44. — DC. Prodrom. V, p.475. — _ Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Ee., p. 86 no. 523, — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. 
d’iie., Supplem. p. 760. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 206. — Aster crispus 
Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 150. — Inula crispa Pers. Syn. Il, p. 450. 
— Del. Illustr. Flor. dg. tab. 45 fig. 2.-- Herbaceous, 30—70 em 
or sometimes somewhat more, more or less whitish-tomentose or 
occasionally somewhat glabrous, much branched; branches terete, 
striate, often obscurely so. Leaves auriculate-amplexicaul, sessile 
denticulate-crisped; lovers ones obovate-oblong, narrowed below the 
middle, rounded or obtuse at the apex; 1—2,5 cm long, 4—6 mm 
broad, the uppermost ones small linear or lanceolate subacute or 
subobtuse. Capitula hemispherical, 8—-12 mm diameter many- 
flowered, solitary at the ends of the paniculate branches, radiate. 
Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, thinly woolly or glandular, linear, 
acute; outer shorter, recurved at the tips. Disk flower 4—5-dentate. 
Receptacle punctate, 5—8 mm diameter. Achenes glabrous. Pappus 
sub-1-seriate with a few shorter setae, subplumosely scabrid above. 
— Flow. February to April. 
M. m.a. M. p. N. d. N. f. N. v. ©. D. I. D. i. D. a. S6piy ae 
mer. Iiverywhere a common plant. 
Local name: sabat (Forsk.); tagér; khatf (Schweinfurth); ra’ra 
(G. Roth); generally; kutkat; afrash; dithdath (Schweinfurth); gidiai 
(Klunzinger). 
Also known from the other parts of the Sahara region to Babylonia. 
