Hedypnois. — Urospermum. 1049 
608. (68.) Hedypnois Tourn. 
Heads many-flowered. Receptacle naked. Involucre in several 
rows, the outer scales minute, calyculate, the inner ones concave, 
hardened in fruit, nearly enclosing the marginal achenes. Achenes 
nearly terete, striate, beakless, the outer ones tipped with a short, 
cup-like, ragged-toothed margin, the inner ones with lanceolate- 
subulate pales. — Annual herbs. 
A small genus of only 3 species widely distributed in the Mediterranean 
region. 
1466. Hedypnois rhagadioloides Willd. Spec. Plant. III (1800), 
p. 1617. — Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p.719. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. 
graec., tab. 812. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p. 98 no. 630. 
Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.799 no. 163. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 766. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., 
p. 250. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.657 no. 197. 
— Hedypnois cretica Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 719. — Rehbch. Ic. XIX, 
tab. XI fig. WI—IV. — Hedypnois tubaeformis Ten. Flor. Nap. I, 
p. 179 tab. 73. — Hyoseris rhagadioloides L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 1139. 
— An annual plant, 10—20 cm high or sometimes somewhat more; 
stems erect or diffuse, sparingly branched, sometimes reduced to a 
1—2-headed scape. Root-leaves obovate to obovate-oblong, sinuate- 
toothed to pinnatifid; peduncles somewhat thickened more or less 
fleshy; achenes scabridulous; the inner ones with a pappus as long 
as the involucre. -— Flow. January to March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Dakalla; Mariut; Montaza; Alexan- 
dria-West and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Brullus; el-“Arish. 
Local name: surret-el-kebsh (Ascherson). 
Widely distributed in the Mediterranean region. 
609. (69.) Urospermum Juss. 
Heads many-flowered. Involucre bell-shaped, the scales 8—10 
in one row, united below. Receptacle naked. Achenes similar, 
compressed, covered with muricate scales, ending in a hollow beak 
jointed at the base and separated from the seed by a partition. 
Pappus similar, in one row, feathery, not interlaced. — Annual herbs. 
A small genus of only two species in the Mediterranean region, from 
the Canaries to Persia. 
1467. Urospermum picroides F.W. Schmidt Sammlg. phys. 
oekonom. Aufs. I (1795), p. 275. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 743. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p.99 no. 639. — Aschers.-Schweint. 
Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.657 no. 201. — Rchbch. Ic. XIX, tab. 26 
