Echinops. 1021 
sect spinescent leaves and solitary terminal globose compound heads, 
varying to 3—4 in. diameter. 
A considerable genus of the Mediterranean region and temperate Asia, 
wanting south of the equator. 
A. Seales of the partial involucre all glabrous. 
ieeaves*entires. 27s 0 et ie. This) Seville 5 1. E. Hussonii. 
Il. Leaves lobate. 
a) Heads long and copiously cornigerous . . 2. HE. galalensis. 
bjt Heads) notceormigerous, eke 2h 3. E.glaberrimus. 
B. Outer scales of the involucre at least usually woolly 
ortelandularizi yo. Aa ete, iboats ellarte Mee od 4, E. spinosus. 
1417. (1.) Echinops Hussonii Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I 
fasc. 10 (1849), p. 86. — Flor. Or. III, p.425. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.92 no.590. — A perennial plant, 60—90 cm 
high, or sometimes somewhat more; stems glabrous, sulcate, leafy, 
simple. Leaves oblong on the upper surface somewhat araneous on 
the under surface canescent, shortly and irregularly repande-lobate, 
acute, lobes often narrowed into spines; glomerules homogamous; 
penicil composed of white setae, twice as long as the involucre; 
scales of the involucre 18—20, the lower ones like the pencil, 
deltoid-spathulate, acute pectinate at the margin, narrowed at the 
base; the intermediate ones subulate-attenuate; the inner ones ob- 
tuse fimbriate at the top; setae of the pappus free or connate into a 
crown, barbellate. — Flow. January to April. 
D. a. mer. Qoseyr. 
Only known from Egypt. 
1418. (2.) Echinops galalensis Schweinf. in Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. (1889) p.763. — Hchinops glaberrimus DC. var. 
cornigerus Boiss. Flor. Or. HI, Supplem. p. 304. — A perennial plant, 
30—60 cm high or sometimes somewhat more; stems erect, simple or 
somewhat branching in the upper part, striate, araneous, in the lower 
part glabrous in the upper parts often canescent, glandulous. Leaves 
white-tomentose, linear, pectinate-toothed with triangular shortly 
spinose teeth, somewhat rigid, lanceolate in outline, divaricately 
bipinnatipartite, revolute at the margin, 2—3 cm long. Heads 
solitary pedunculate, 3—5 cm in diameter, cornigerous; pencil com- 
posed of ciliate-scabrous setae half as long as the involucre; scales 
of the involucre 18—20, the lowest 2—4 rhomboid at the top lanate 
at the back, with 2—4 setae on each side, ciliate at the top; the 
intermediate ones lanceolate narrowed at the base 1—1,5 cm long, 
all carinate,- sinuate-pectinate-ciliate in the anterior part, with teeth 
in 3 cm long spines attenuate; the inner ones half as long as the 
