Senecio. . 1017 
1410. (4.) Senecio aegyptius L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1216. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 91 no. 583. — Boiss. Flor. 
Or. IU, p. 387. — (inclus. the variet. discoideus and verbenaefolius.) 
— Senecio arabicus L. Mant., p. 114. — Senecio verbenaefolius 
Jacq. Ic. Hort. Vindob. I, p. 2 tab.3. — Senecio triflorus L. Spec. 
Piant. I, p. 1216. — DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 342. — Annual, glabrous 
in most parts, about 25—70 cm high, not much branched, leafy. 
Leaves pinnatifid or pinnatipartite, mostly oval in general outline, 
2—61/, cm long, upper sessile amplexicaul or subpetiolate with an 
auriculate base, lower narrowed into a petiole; lobes dentiform or 
toothed. Capitula campanulute, 5 mm long, on slender pedicels 
ranging up to 8 mm in a divaricate corymbose cyme. Calyculus 
of 6—9 short bracts. Involucral bracts linear with a lanceolate tip 
and scarious margin, equalling the pappus. Ligule absent. Achenes 
puperulous all over, castate. — Flow. February to April. 
N.d. N.f. N. v. O. Greet Oasis. — Everywhere as a weed 
common. 
Local name: kus (Forsk.); sorbeyh (Ehrenberg); beysum (Ascher- 
son); libbeyn (G. Roth); mormude (Ascherson); bellash ma’iz (Muschler). 
A common plant also in Cordofan and Nubia. 
1411. (5.) Senecio coronopifolius Desf. Flor. Atlant. II (1798), 
p. 273. — Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 390. — Webb. and Berth. Phyt. 
Canar. III, p. 320 tab. 108. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 91 
no. 584, — Aschers. Flor. Sirbon., p. 812 no. 22. — Aschers. Flor. 
Rhinocol., p.799 no. 151. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p- 655 no. 176. — Sickenbere. Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 247. — DC. 
Prodrom. VI, p. 1344. — Annual, 8—60 cm high, erect, branched, 
glabrous in most parts. Leaves fleshy, sessile, semi-amplexicaul,. 
pinnately lobed or entire, 1—5 cm long, lobes linear and sometimes 
dentate or dentiform; margins revolute. Capitula campanulate, at 
length hemispherical, about 5 mm long, 1 or few together, on 
peduncles or pedicels ranging up to 2'/, cm, forming a wide corym- 
bose cyme. Calyculus of 6-—8 short lanceolate bracts. Involueral 
bracts linear, sometimes broadly so, with a lanceolate tip, dark- 
coloured at the apex, with narrow scarious margins, about equalling 
the flowers. Ligule of the marginal florets oblong, shorter than the in- 
volucre. Achenes costate, minutely setulose. — Flow. October to March. 
M. ma. M. p. N.d. N. f. N. v. N. v. mer. O. D. J. D. i. D. a. sept. 
D. a-mer. One the commonest plants. 
Locai name: qorreys (Forsk.); djerdjir (Wilkinson); murreyr 
(Ascherson); birsheman; frakh-ommaly; djerdir-el-djebel (Ascherson). 
Common in the whole Mediterranean region, Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
