1050 Compositae. 
fig. II—IV. — An annual herb, 30—50 cm high or sometimes some- 
what more, more or less setulose. Leaves oblong-spathulate, entire, 
pinnatifid or lyrate, those of the stem auricled-clasping, the upper 
ones lanceolate to linear. Heads 2 cm long, at first conical, then 
campanulate; base of the beak ovate, inflated, tip filiform. — Flow. 
December to May. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N. f. N. v. O. D.1. D.i. D. a. sept. Common 
in sandy and waste places, often in fields and on way-sides. 
Local name: silis; sileys; besik; dordé (Ascherson); galawayen; 
qoddeyd (Ascherson). 
Common in the whole Mediterranean region. 
610. (70.) Leontodon Linn. 
Herbs, with a perennial stock, radical, spreading leaves, simple 
or slightly branched, usually leafless flower-stems and yellow flowers. 
Involucres of several nearly equal, erect, inner bracts, and 2 or 3 
rows of smaller outer ones. Receptacle without bracts between the 
flowers. Achenes more or less tapering at the top into a short beak, 
sometimes scarcely perceptible. Pappus of all, or at least the central 
flowers, composed of feathery hairs. 
A genus not numerous in species, but abundantly spread over Europe 
and Russian Asia. It was formerly united with Taraxacum, from which it 
has been separated on account of the feathery pappus. 
Ay nner achenes' not beaked; « . - « s «ge - =: « 1. L. hispidulum. 
B. Inner achenes long beaked .........-. 2. L. tuberosum, 
1468. (1.) Leontodon hispidulum (Del.) Boiss. Flor. Or. HI 
(1875), p. 127. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 98 no. 634. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p.766. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 250. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 800 no. 
165. — Crepis hispidula Del. Ilustr. Flor. d’Eg., p. 117 tab. 42 fig. 1. 
— Apargia annua Vis. Plant. Alg., p. 38 tap.6. — Leontodon arabicum 
Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 727-728. — Kalbfussia orientalis Jaub. and 
Spach Ilustr. Plant. Or. III, p.117 tab. 283. — Oporinia hispidula 
DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 109. — Fidelia kalbfussioides Sch. Bip. in Flora 
(1834), p. 482. — Millina arabica Boiss. Plant. Or. Diagn., Ser. I 
fasc. XI p. 78. — The whole plant more or less hispid with erect, 
stiff, short hairs, often forked or stellate at the top. Leaves long and 
narrow, coarsely toothed or pinnatifid. Peduncles 9 cm to 20 cm 
or more long, slightly swollen at the top, with a single rather large 
flower-head. Bracts of the involuere narrow, and always hispid, the 
inuer row much longer than the outer ones. Achenes long, striate 
