1004 Compositae. 
less tubercled, bald, convex at the tip, frequently with scalloped 
margin on account of the truncate ribs. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. N. v. Often on way-sides, and on borders of fields. 
Local name: ribyan. 
Also known from the other parts of the Sahara, whole Europe, Asia 
Minor, Caueasia and Syria. 
1387. (7.) Anthemis retusa Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. (1813), 
p. 105. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 90 no. 565. — Anthemis 
cahirica Visian. Plant. Aeg., p. 36 tab. 6. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
dEg., p. 247. — An annual plant, 30—50 cm high, appressed hairy, 
branching from the base. Leaves ovate-oblong in outline 2—1- 
pinnatipartite into very small oblong-linear, prickly-toothed lobules. 
Peduneles not thickened; scales of the involucre oblong, obtuse, with 
broad, scarious margin; receptacle hemispherical, all chatty; chaff 
linear, achenes not tubercled, nearly terete, tapering at the base, 
erooved, truncate, bald. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma.’ M. p.. ‘N.d...N.-f: N.’v.: -D. 1.-D. a. sept. DB. as aie 
A very common plant in deep sandy places. 
Local name: ribyain-beta-er-rif (Klunzinger); surret-el-kebsh 
(Ascherson); generally: rilyan; ’ain-el-qutt. 
Also known from the other parts of the Orient. 
1388. (8.) Anthemis pseudocotula Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., 
ser. I fasc. VI (1849), p. 86. — Flor. Or. II, p. 317. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Hl. Flor.d’Eg., p.90 no.566. — An annual plant, 30—40 em 
high, or sometimes somewhat more, appressed puberulent, corymbose. 
Leaves ovate-oblong in outline, bipinnatipartite into oblong-linear, 
acute lobules. Peduncles at length thickened; outer scales of 
the involucre lanceolate, inner ones linear-oblong, long-scarious at 
the tip; receptacle conical; chaff linear; achenes persistent, furrowed, 
the outer ones somewhat obpyramidal, smooth or slightly tubercled 
at ones ribs, the inner obconical-terete, not tubercled, terminating, 
in a concave, entire or somewhat lobed margin. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. Alexandria. 
Also known from Syria, Mesopotamia to Persia. 
1389. (9.) Anthemis rotata Boiss. Flor. Or. III (1875), p. 318. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 90 no, 567. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 247. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 653 no. 169. — Anthemis arvensis var. incrassata 
Aschers.-Schweinf. in Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 90 no. 560 
not of Boiss. — An annual plant, 8—12 em high or sometimes some- 
