Seorzonera. 1055 
A. Stems secape-like or few branched; leaves 
mostly radical. 
i’ Blowers papush tes. vests a. aS AG 1. S. alexandrina. 
1.5 Plowersiyeulowe. ts Vile wal) S5a% 2. S. Schweinfurthii. 
By Stems leafy, branehingss) 2 «lal. 0s 4.-% 3. §. hispanica, 
1476. (1.) Scorzonera alexandrina Boiss. Flor. Or. III (1875), 
p. 760. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., p.99 no. 641. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.657 no. 202. — A 
perennial plant, 5—15 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, 
appressed-canescent, root cylindrical with a ovate-globose tuber at 
the base; stem scape-like short, monocephalous, in the lower part 
leafy, naked or with short leaflets; leaves rosulate, narrow-linear 
sometimes undulate, base dilatate; capitula large; scales of the in- 
volucre canescent or glabrescent, few, broad, the lower ones ovate 
abruptly and shortly crispidate-acuminate, the lowest lanceolate; 
flowers purplish twice as long as the involucre; achenes muricate. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria- 
West and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. — D.1. D. a. sept. Common in 
deep sandy places. 
Local name: ethbi (Wilkinson); debbash (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania, 
1477. (2.) Scorzonera Schweinfurthii Boiss. Flor. Or., Supplem. 
(1888), p. 320. — Aschers.-Schweinf. lllustr. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 766. 
— A perennial plant. Appressed-cobwebby, canescent; root vertical, 
tuberous; neck sheathed in the remains of the petioles; stems simple 
or branched, densely leafy below. Leaves linear, elongated, sheathing 
at the base, zigzag, recurved, and usually wavy-margined. Peduncles 
at length thickened at the apex; heads 2—3 cm long; scales of the 
involucre few, very unequal, ovate to lanceolate; flowers yellow, 
reddish without, once and a half as long as the involucre; achenes 
5-furrowed, scaly-muricate, rather longer than the white pappus. — 
Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Northern and Southern Galala. 
Only known from Egypt. 
1478. (3.) Seorzonera hispanica L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1112. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. Ill, p.767. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Illustr. Flor. d’Ee., 
p. 99. — Scorzonera glastifolia Willd. Spec. Plant. III, p. 1499. — 
Rehbch. Ic. XIX, tab. 33. — Scorzonera taurica M. B. Flor. Caue. 
tauric. HW, p. 234. —- A perennial plant, 30—40 cm high or some- 
times somewhat more; root vertical; stems simple sublanate then 
