Launaea. 1059 
1483. (4.) Launaea angustifolia Muschler comb. nov. — 
Zollikoferia angustifolia Coss. and Dur. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France. II, 
p. 254. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @’Eg. p.100 no. 655. — 
Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.800 no. 169. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. 
Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 767. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 652. — Aschers. Flor. Sirbon., p. 812 no. 25. — Zollikoferia arabica 
Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. VIII p.12. — Flor. Or. II, 
p. 823. — Sonchus angustifolius Desf. Flor. Atlant. Il, p. 225, — 
A biennial plant, 3—20 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, 
glabrous, branching from the base; stems thick, 1—4- headed. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate in outline, pectinate-pinnatifid into oblong, 
callous-toothed lobes. Scales of the involucre herbaceous, not 
margined, orbicular to elliptical and oblong, obtusely callous-tipped; 
achenes silky, 4-angled, hirsute at angles, the short pappus persistent, 
longer than the achene. — Flow. December to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matrugqa; Dakalla; Mariut; Montaza; 
Alexandria-West to Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; el-‘Arish; 
Feqira; Gels-Mohamediya. 
Local name: slih. 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania and Arabia and Petraea. 
1484. (5.) Launaea nudicaulis Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. III (1882), 
p.416. — Zollikoferia nudicaulis Boiss. Flor. Or. HI, p. 824. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d@’Eg., p.100 no.652. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 252. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p.-657 no. 265. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 880 no. 170. — 
Chondrilla nudicaulis L. Mant. I, p. 278. — Microrhynchus nudicaulis 
Less. Syn. Comp., p.139. — Jaub. and Spach Illustr. Plant. Or., 
tab. 278. — Sonchus divaricatus Desf. Ann. Mus. Par. II, p.212 tab. 46. 
— Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., p.63. — A perennial plant, 30—50 cm 
high, or sometimes somewhat more, loosely corymbose above. 
Basilar leaves rosetted, oblong- to linear-spathulate in outline, 
runcinate, lobes cartilaginous-toothed; stem-leaves few, small, at the 
lower forks. Heads short-pedicelled; scales with broad, white margins, 
the lower ones triangular, with a minute, spathulate-dilated tip; 
achenes scarcely compressed, 5—6-furrowed, obtuse at the tip and 
obtusely ribbed; pappus persistent. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. D.1. D.i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. 
Everywhere one the commonest plant. 
Local name: lusseyq (Ascherson); murreyr (Ascherson). 
Also known from the other parts of the Sahara region, Spain and Arabia, 
Petraea. 
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