1006 Compositae. 
Flor. @Eg., tab. 48 fig. 3, — An annual plant, 30—35 cm high or 
sometimes somewhat more, long-hairy, branching from the neck; 
stems prostrate, proliferous. Leaves oblong, petioled, pinnatisect 
with short segments. Capitula discoid, sessile or the upper ones 
somewhat peduncled, often thickened or incurved; bracts of the in- 
volucel hirsute oblong-lanceolate; receptacle convex with cuneate- 
rhombic scales; achenes compressed, orbicular, somewhat alate. — 
Flow. April to May. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Keniis; Matruqa; Abusir; Mariut; 
Alexandria-West and -East. — N. f. Medinet-el-Fayim. — D.i. 
D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Rare in sandy places. 
Local name: surr; surret-el-kebsh (Ascherson). 
Also known from Tunisia, Tripolitania, Arabia and Palestine. 
580. (40.) Achillea Linn. 
Herbs, mostly perennial, with alternate, much divided, or rarely 
simple leaves; the flower-heads rather small, in a terminal corymb, 
with white or pink rays, and a yellow disk. Involucres ovoid or 
hemispherical, the bracts imbricated, only slightly scarious on the 
edges. Receptacle small, not convex, with chaff between the florets. 
Achenes without any pappus. Style nearly that of Senecio. 
A considerable European, North American, and Asiatic genus. 
A, Leaves pinnatisect into minute, transverse, im- 
bricated.lobes:.:i 6 so4 oc seve, ayer ae ens amoebae 
B. Leaves undivided, serrulate. ....... . 2 A. fragrantissima. 
1392. (1.) Achillea Santolina L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1264. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 266. — DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 31. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Nl. Flor. d’Ege., p.89 no. 557. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. 
Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 761. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 246. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.798 no. 144. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.653 no.157. — Achillea Wil- 
helmsii C. Koch in Linnaea XXIV, p.31. — A perennial plant, 
20---60 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, stems terete, simple 
or branching below, canescent. Leaves pubescent; segments of the 
lower leaves and those of young shoots somewhat distant. Corymbs 
compound; peduncles shorter or a little longer than the 5 mm long 
heads; scales of the involucre oblong, obtuse; rays yellow, very 
short. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Marmarica; Abusir; Mariut; Behig; Alexan- 
dria-West and -Kast; Mandara; Abukir. M. p. El-’Arish. 
