Carlina. 1023 
590. (50.) Carlina Linn. 
Heads homogamous, many- and equal-flowered. Involucre in 
several rows, the outer scales leaf-like, the inner ones scarious, 
frequently ray-like. Chaff of the receptacle many-cleft. Flowers 
perfect. Filaments free, appendages of the anthers feathery. Achenes 
terete-obcuneate, silky, with hilum at the base. Pappus consisting 
of 1—2 rows of small pales, parted into 3—4, feathery fibres — 
Monocarpic or perennial herbs, with spiny, pinnatifid or partite 
leaves and involucre. 
A small European and Asiatic genus, easily distinguished by the in- 
volueral bracts. 
1421. Carlina involucrata Poir. Voy. IT (1805), p. 234. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 93 no. 593. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 248. — Carlina corymbosa 8. involucrata Boiss. Flor. 
Or. III, p. 449. — A biennial plant 20—80 cm high or sometimes 
somewhat more, stems simple or corymbose. Leaves mostly glabres- 
cent, coriaceous, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, recurved; the upper 
ones falling ofter flowering. Heads 3—5 cm in diameter; outer 
scales of the involuere linear-lanceolate, with 1—2 spines on either 
side, twice to twice and a half as long as the head. Flow. March. 
.M. ma. Mariut; Behig. 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Spain, Sicily 
and Syria. 
var. mareotica Aschers. and Schweinf. in Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. 
Flor. d’Eg. (1887), p. 93 no. 593. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 655 no. 180. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 248. 
— A small plant, only up to 8—10 cm or less; the lower leaves 
like the scales of the involucre lanate; spines not so long as in the 
type. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Mariut; old quarries near Behig. 
Only known from Egypt. 
var. Letourneuxii Aschers. and Schweinf. in Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. @’Eg. (1887), p. 93 no. 593. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p.248. — Indument arachnoid; spines rigid; intermediate 
scales of the involucre attenuate into spines. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Abusir; Mariut. 
Local name: grinsa; grinse (Schweinfurth); ssabtha (?). 
Only known from Egypt. 
