1046 Compositae. 
1460. (1.) Cichorium Intybus L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p.1142. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IW, p. 715. — Rehbeh. Ic. XV, tab. 6. — Sickenherg. 
Contrib. Flor. d@Eg., p. 250. — Engl. Bot., tab. 539. — Cichorium 
byzantinum Clem. Sertul., p.51. — A perennial plant, 30—60 cm 
high or sometimes somewhat more, erect, divaricately branched. 
Leaves hirsute, the lower ones runcinate, the terminal segment long, 
acute; stem-leaves half-clasping, lanceolate. Lateral heads sessile, 
in clusters of 2-several, terminal solitary, peduncled; outer scales 
of the involucre ovate-lanceolate, inner ones twice as long, all more 
or less glandular-fringed; flowers thrice as long as the involucre; 
achenes S—10 times as long as the pappus. — Flow. February 
to March. 
M. ma. Alexandria-West and -Hast, recently introduced. 
Common throughout Europe and whole Sibiria. 
1461. (2.) Cichorium pumilum Jacq. Obsery. Bot. IV (1791), 
p-3 tab. 80. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. graec., tab.822. — Cichorium 
divaricatum Schousb. Mar., p.197. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 98 no.627. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p.716. — An annual 
plant, 30 cm to 1m high or sometimes somewhat more, stem 
forked, branching from the base. Root-leaves dentate to runcinate- 
pinnatipartite; stem-leaves minute, linear. Lateral heads sessile, 
clustered, terminal solitary, peduncled, peduncles at length thickened, 
club-shaped; outer scales of the involucre ovate, obtuse, ciliate or 
unarmed, not glandular, inner ones much longer; flowers thrice 
as long as the involucre; pales as long as the achenes. — Flow. 
March to April. 
N. d. N. f. N. v. Often in sandy and waste places. — O. Little 
Oasis. 
Localname: hindib (Schweinfurth); maqd (Ascherson) ; sablangaro 
(Ascherson); serins (Schweinfurth). 
Oceurs throughout the Mediterranean region. 
1462. (3.) Cichorium endivia L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p.813. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 716. Aschers.-Schweinf. Ilustr. Flor. 
d’Eg., p.98 no.628. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p-657 no.195. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p.258. — Fraas 
Flor. Class., p. 197. — Differs from the preceeding species by the 
stem-leaves, which are hastate at the base and smaller and narrower 
elandulose-ciliate scales of the involucre and setae of the pappus, 
which are fourtimes shorter than the achenes. — Flow. February 
to March. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. Spontaneous and often cultivated. 
