Atractylis. — Carduus. 1025 
1423. (2.) Atractylis Mernephthae Aschers. Letourn.. and 
Schweinf. in Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’ Eg. (1887), p.94 no. 595. 
— Atractylis serratuloides var. Letourneux exsicc. not of Sieb. — 
An annual plant, 10—20 cm high; stems divaricately branched, 
branches slender, gracious, in the upper part araneose, in the 
other parts glabrescent; leaves ovate-oblong in outline, the upper 
ones larger than the others forming a supplementary involucre, 
pubescent, subpinnatifid or entire, toothed, segment 1—3 on either 
side, teeth spinulous, somewhat lanate at the base; scales of the 
involucre pilose-pubescent at the back, narrowed into a fine spine 
at the top; the lower ones ovate, the upper ones lanceolate, all 
membranously margined, broadly purplish. —- Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Between Suez and Adjerud (Letourneux). 
Only known from Egypt. 
1424. (3.) Atractylis cancellata L. Spec. Plant. 1 (1753), p.452. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 452. — Rehbch. Ic. XV, tab. 14. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p.94 no. 596. — Aschers.-Schweinf. III. 
Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 765. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 248. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 655 no. 182. 
— Atractylis caespitosa Viv. Flor. Libyc., p.52 not of Desf — 
Acarna cancellata All. Flor. Pedem. I, p. 153. — Sibth. and Smith 
Flor. graec., tab.839. — An annual plant, 10—20 cm high, or 
sometimes somewhat more, appressed-cobwebby; stems simple or 
branching from the base, slender, corymbose or monocephalous. 
Leaves linear, ciliate-prickly. Heads ovate, 1,5 cm long; outer scales 
of the involucre in about 1 row, linear, pectinate-prickly, a little 
longer than the oblong to lanceolate-acuminate, membranous, inner 
scales; flowers purple; pappus once and a half as long as the 
achene. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria- 
West and -EHast; Mandara, Abukir. — M. p. Ramlet-el-Ekhfén. — 
D. i. Wady-el-‘Arish. 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Southern Europe 
and Arabia Petraea. 
592. (52.) Carduus Linn. 
Capitula heterogamous, flowers equal and hermaphrodite (or all 
1-sexual in dioecious species). Involucre globose or ovoid, of 
numerous cc-serlate imbricate more or less spinescent bracts. 
Receptacle densely setose. Pappus of numerous pauci- or multi- 
seriate simple serrulate or barbellate setae, cohering at the base in 
a narrow annulus, at length separating from the achene. — Hrect 
Muschler, Manual Flora of Egypt. 65 
