Crepis. 1067 
p. 252. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 657 no. 207. 
— Leontodon bulbosum L. Spec. Plant. I, p.1122. — Aetheorhiza 
bulbosa Cass. in Dict. Scienc. Natur. XLVIU, p. 425. — Rehbch. 
Ic. XIX, tab. 82 fig. 1. — Hicracium bulbosum Willd. Spec. Plant. II, 
p. 1562. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. graec., tab. 798. — A perennial 
plant, 20—30 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more. Leaves 
glabrous, fleshy oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, somewhat toothed. Scape 
with one leaf and usually only one head. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matrugqa; Dakalla; Mariut; Montaza; 
Alexandria-West and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; 
Damietta, along the sandy coast. 
Local name: beyd-el-ard (Ascherson). 
Common in the Mediterranean region and Europe. 
1500. (2.) Crepis parviflora Desf. Cat., ed. I (1729) p. 88. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.101 no. 660. — Crepis breviflora 
Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., p. 72 no. 765. — Crepis muricata Sibth. and 
Smith Flor. graec., p.4 tab.807. — An annual plant, 50 cm to 1m 
high, or rarely somewhat more; stem slender zigzag, dichotomous- 
corymbose. Lower leaves ovate-oblong, repand-toothed to runcinate; 
stem-leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, sagittate at base. Peduncles 
slender, divergent, curved; heads very small; involucre appressed- 
canescent, inner scales obtuse, bristly-mucronate; achenes minute. 
— Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Rosetta; Cairo: Faqalla. — N.f. Fedemim. — O. Little 
Oasis. 
Also known from Syria and Asia Minor to Persia. 
1501. (3.) Crepis radicata Forsk. Flor. aeg-arab. (1775), p. 145. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg. p.101 no. 661. — Crepis 
senecioides Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Kg., p. 262 tab. 42 fig. 2. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. III, p. 852. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p. 657 no. 208. — Barckhausia senecioides Spreng. Syst. III, p. 652. 
— Psammoseris senecioides Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. 11 
p. 52. — An annual plant, 30—40 cm high, or sometimes some- 
what more, sparingly and shortly hirsute; many stems ascendent 
simple or bifid, few-headed. Basilar leaves lanceolate-linear or 
narrow oblong, toothed or somewhat lyrately pinnatipartite; stem- 
leaves 1—2, linear; heads minute, subcylindrical; scales of the in- 
volucre short, the outer ones a fourth of the length of the inner 
ones, linear; ligules reddish at the outer surface; achenes minute, 
subcompressed, oblong, 10-striate, acute on both ends; pappus white, 
not longer than achenes. — Flow. March to April. 
