1054 Compositae. 
XIX, tab. 27. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 99 no. 638. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 742. — An annual plant, 30—50 cm high or 
sometimes somewhat more; stems thick, forked. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, entire or sinuate-toothed. Heads terminal, 1,5 cm long, 
short peduncled, 2—5 in a cluster. — Flow. February to May. 
N. d. (?) “Aegyptia inferior’ Husson ex Boiss. Flor. Or. II 
p. 742. 
Also known from the whole Mediterranean basin and Arabia Petraea. 
612. (72.) Tragopogon Linn. 
Heads many-flowered. Involucre simple, of 8 scales in one row. 
Receptacle honey-combed, hairy at margin. Achenes gradually tapering 
into a long beak, the marginal ones tipped with 5, scabrous pales, 
the central with feathery, interlaced pappus. — Annual herbs. 
1475. Tragopogon glaber (L.) Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant. II 
(1873), p.618. — Geropogon glaber L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 1009. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 744. — Jacq. Hort.Vindob., tab.33. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p.99 no. 640. — Geropogon hirsutum L. 
Spec. Plant. I, p. 1009. — Sibth. and Smith Prodrom. Flor. graec., 
tab. 778. — Tragopogon crocifolium DC. Prodrom. VII, p. 139. — 
An annual plant, 20—50 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, 
glabrous or sparingly hairy; stem erect, terete. Leaves linear, the 
lower dilated at the base, the upper ones half-clasping. Peduneles 
hollow, at length thickened; scales of the involucre linear-lanceo- 
late, longer than the pink or violet flowerets; achenes striate, scabrous. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Abd-el-Qadr. — N. d. Kafr Hawan near Faqis. 
— N.f. Medinet-el-Fayim; Tamia; Senhtr; Sentris. — O. Little 
Oasis. 
Also known from the other parts of Mediterranean region. 
613. (73.) Seorzonera Linn. 
Heads many-flowered. Involucre imbricated. Receptacle naked. 
Achenes supported at the base by a hollow stalk surrounding the 
hilum, eiter very short and indistinct, or elongated and rather in- 
flated. Pappus feathery to the tip, interlaced, or feathery at the 
base and scabrous at the tip or scabrous from the base to the tip. 
— Herbs, rarely woody at the base. 
A large genus of nearly 100 species in Middle Europe and the Medi- 
terranean region to Middle Asia. 
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