1066 Compositae. 
(Ascherson); galéweyn (Ascherson); kebaoh (Schweinfurth, Muschler); 
kebas; libban. 
A very variable plant, widely spread in the Mediterranean region; occurs 
also in Tropical Africa and N. W. India. 
1498, (2.) Reichardia picroides (L.) Roth Bot. Abhandlg. (1787), 
p. 35. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor.d’Kg., p. 100 no. 658. — Picridium 
vulgane Desf. Flor. Atlant. II, p. 221. — Scorzonera picroides L. Spec. 
Plant., p.1114. — Sonchus chondrilloides Sibth. and Smith Flor. 
graec. VIII, p.67 tab. 791. — Picridium maritimum Rehbch. Ie. XIX, 
tab. 56. — A perennial plant, 40—50 cm high, or sometimes some- 
what more; root bearing several stems. Lower leaves spathulate, 
sinuate or pinnately lobed or parted, usually toothed. Heads 1,5 em 
long, peduncled; scales of the involucre with narrow, white margins, 
the outer ones ovate, all obtuse; ligules pale at the outer surface; 
outer achenes oblong, inner ones obtusely prismatic. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. Near Alexandria. 
Common in the whole Mediterranean region. 
619. (79.) Crepis Linn. 
Involucre of a single row of nearly equal bracts, with a few 
small outer ones. Receptacle without scales. Flowers all ligulate. 
Achenes oblong, cylindrical or scarcely flattened, striate, tapering 
at the top, but without a distinct beak. Pappus of numerous fine 
white soft simple bristles. — Annual or perennial herbs, usually 
branched. Leaves alternate or radical, mostly toothed or lobed. 
Flower-heads in loose irregular corymbs or panicles. Flowers yellow. 
A large genus, widely distributed over the temperate regions of the 
northern hemisphere. 
A. Eucrepis. — Receptacle naked. 
I. Achenes nearly similar, tip more or less tapering, 
not beaked. 
1. C, bulbosa. 
2. C. parviflora. 
3. C. radicata. 
a) Perennial . . 
b) Annual BN tn os et sto bia tae: ie 
Il. Achenes nearly alike, all or central beaked 
If]. Achenes tapering or beaked, the marginal one 
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keeled or winged at the inner face . . 4 C. aspera. 
B. Lagoseris. — Receptacle beset with bristles . . . 5, C. bifida. 
1499. (1.) Crepis bulbosa T'ausch in Flora XI (1828), IL. Kr- 
gaenzbd., p. 78. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 832. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Nl. Flor. @Eg., p.10L no. 659. Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., 
