1016 Compositae. 
than the small discoid hemispherical head; scales of the involucre 
few lanceolate, short membranous-margined in the upper part mostly 
attenuate; florets yellow sometimes purplish; achenes glabrous, smooth 
shortly attenuate at the base and the top; pappus 3 times longer 
than the achenes. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. N. v. A common herb on way-sides. 
Local name: libbeyn. 
Only known from Egypt. 
1408. (2.) Senecio flavus (Decsne.) Sch. Bip. in Webb. and 
Berth. Phyt. Canar. III (1847), p. 317. — Aschers.-Schweinf. IL. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 91 no. 581. — Senecio Decaisnei DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 342. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 386. — Crassocephalum flavum Decsne Flor. 
sinaic, p. 27. — An annual herb, 20—40 cm high or sometimes 
somewhat more; stems erect, forked, rarely simple. Leaves rather 
fleshy, the lower ones ovate-oblong, toothed, short-petioled, those of 
the stem cordate-clasping at the base, irregularly toothed. Heads 
discoid, obconical-cylindrical, 1 cm long, 4 mm broad; pappus 
caducous, longer than the achenes. Flow. March to April. 
D. 1. Biban-el-Moluk near Thebes; D. a. sept. Serapeum; Bir 
Suez; Suez; Tura; Wady Dugla near Helwan. — D. a. mer. Qoseyr. 
Local name: hedhedid; hadhadid; (Klunzinger). 
Also known from Canary Islands, Algeria and Arabia. 
1409. (3.) Senecio vulgaris L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1216. 
— Ic. Flor. Dam., tab. 513. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IIT, p.386. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 91 no. 582. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 247. — DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 341. — Erect, glabrous, 12 
to 40 cm high, branched from the base, annual. Branches terete, 
striate. Lowest leaves dentate or subentire, oblong-spathulate, 
petiolate, scarcely 2 cm long, stem-leaves pinnatifid or pinnatipartite, 
sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, ranging up to 5 by 2 cm, segments 
distant, spreading, oblong or ovate, obtuse, as well as the rhachis 
more or less toothed. Capitula oblong, discoid 5 mm long, on short 
slender pedicels, in dense corymbose cymes. Calyculus of several 
minute appressed bracts. Inyolucral bracts linear. Achenes pube- 
rulous. — Flow. December to May. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v.O. A common weed in fields 
and ways. 
Local name: mureyra (Muschler). 
Widely spread over Kurope and the Kast Mediterranean basin, extending 
to America, and introduced into New South Wales. 
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