Anthemis. 1003 
the outer ones acute, the inner ones scarious-tipped; rays white, 
obovate-oblong, longer than the disk; outer achenes somewhat qua- 
drangular, all furnished with an oblong, obtuse auricle, as long as 
they or longer. — Flow. March to April. 
D. i. Salihiya; el-Qantara. — D. a. sept. Suez. 
Local name: frakh-omm-aly (Forsk.); arbayén (Schweinfurth); 
ribyan (Ascherson). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
var. brachyota Aschers. in Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
Supplem. (1889) p. 761. — Pappus abbreviate, much shorter than 
the achenes. — Flow. March. 
D. i. Wady-el-Arish. 
Only known from this locality. 
1385. (5.) Anthemis Chia L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1260. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 311. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. graee., tab. 883. 
— Anthemis libanotica DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 9. — Phalacrodiscus 
pyrethroides Decsne Ann. Scienc. Natur. (1835), p. 26. — Anthemis 
Visianii Weiss ex Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 311. — An annual plant, 
20—30 cm long, or sometimes somewhat more, glabrescent, branching 
from the base; stems erect or ascending. Leaves ovate in outline; 
bipinnatipartite into oblong, acute, divergent, often 2—3-fid lobules; 
petiole fringed at the base. Peduncles long, not thickened; heads 
3 cm broad; scales of the involucre with an undulating, scarious, 
rusty margin, the outer ones smaller, triangular, acutish, the inner 
ones linear-oblong, acute; chaff oblong-linear, acutish, translucent; 
rays longer than the disk; achenes cylindrical, ribbed, the outer 
one somewhat curved, with a translucent auricle as long as they. 
the inner one with a short auricle or a short, acute crown. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. p. Port Said, in deep sand, near the Canal (Muschler). 
Also known from Italy, Greece, Arabia Petraea and Asia Minor. 
1386. (6.) Anthemis Cotula L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1261. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IN, p. 315. — Rehbch. Ic. XVI, tab. 109 fig. I. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. ll. Flor. d’Eg., p. 90 no. 564. — Maruta Cotula 
DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 13. — Maruta foetida Cass. in Dict. Science. 
Natur. XXIX, p.174. — An annual plant, 40—60 em high, or rarely 
somewhat more, glabrescent, corymbose. Leaves ovate-oblong in 
outline, bipinnatipartite into linear, entire or 2—3-toothed mucronate 
lobules. Pedunecles not thickened; scales of the involucre oblong, 
obtuse with a narrow, scarious margin; receptacle long-conical; chaff 
linear-subulate; achenes caducous, nearly terete, turbinate, more or 
