Pieris. 1053 
high or sometimes somewhat more, densely canescent; stems simple, 
or 2-forked, 2-headed. Root-leaves oblanceolate, sinuate-toothed or 
coarsely pinnatilobed; stem-leaves 1—2, linear, or 0. Peduncles 
not thickened; heads 1,5 em long; achenes oblong, yellow, rather 
abruptly beaked, beak longer than the achene. 
N.d. N.f. N. v. O. (Dakhel.) — D.1. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. 
Common in deep sandy places. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1473. (4.) Picris coronopifolia DC. Prodrom. VII (1838), p. 131. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.99 no. 637. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 251. — Aschers.-Schweinf, Primit. Flor, Mar- 
maric., p.657 no. 200. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 806 no. 166. 
— Picris radicata Less. Synops. Compos., p. 134. — Crepis radicata 
Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 145. — Picris Cyrata Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 116 tab. 40 fig. 3. — Spitzelia Sieberi Sch. Bip. in Linnaea (1834), 
p. 474. — Spitzelia lyrata Sch. Bip. in Linnaea (1835), p. 638. — 
Leontodon coronopifolium Desf. Flor. All. II tab. 214. — An annual 
plant, 15—25 cm long, rough-papillose. Root-leaves rosetted, ob- 
lanceolate, sinuate-pinnatifid into rounded or ovate lobes; stem- 
leaves few, linear. Peduncles long, scarcely thickened; heads 1,5 cm 
long; marginal achenes cylindrical, incurved, truncate, disk achenes 
very small, oblong, rounded or narrowed at the tip. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. M.p. D.1. D. i. D. a. sept. Everywhere in deep sandy 
places. 
Local name: kharra-binty (Ascherson); heléwan (Ascherson). 
Also known from Tunisia and Arabia Petraea. 
var. pilosa (Del.) Aschers. and Schweinf. in Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. @’Eg. (1889), p.99 no. 637. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 251. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 657 
no. 200. — Picris pilosa Del. Ilustr. Flor. d@Eg., p.114 tab. 114 
fig. 2. — Spitzelia aegyptiaca Sch. Bip. in Flora (1833), p. 727. — 
An annual plant with glochidiate hairs; scales of the involucre 
densely pilous. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Ken#is; Matruqa; Abusir; Mariut; 
Montaza; Alexandria-West and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. 
Rosetta; Damietta. 
Local name: khawa-binty (Ascherson). 
Only known from Egypt. 
1474. (5.) Pieris echioides L. Spec. Plant. 1 (1753), p. 1114. 
Helminthia echioides Gaertn. De Fruct. II, p. 368. — Rchbch, Icon. 
