1068 Compositae. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. D.1. D.i. D. a. sept. Fre- 
quent on wasty places and in the desert. 
Local name: serageha; hawdan (Forsk.). 
Only known from Egypt. 
1502. (4.) Crepis aspera L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1133. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 767. — Aschers. Flor. 
Rhinocol., p. 800 no. 175. — Boiss. Flor. Or. Il, p. 857. — Sibth. and 
Smith Flor. graec. tab. 804. — Endoptera aspera DC. Prodrom. VU, 
p- 179. — Pterotheca aspera Rchbch. Ic. XIX tab. 77. — An annual 
plant, 50 cm to 1m high or sometimes somewhat more, stems and 
branches very rough with rigid, prickly bristles. Leaves more or 
less bristly-fringed, the lower ones oblong-spathulate to oblanceolote, 
many-toothed; stem leaves truncate-auricled at the base, triangular- 
oblong; upper-leaves linearwentire. Heads 8 mm long; outer scales 
of the involucre ovate, scarious, small, deciduous; inner ones prickly 
at the back; inner achenes roughish, beak slender, twice to thrice 
as long as the seed. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Gebel Ekhfén; Maqta’Rts-es-Subyan; Sheykh Zoyed; el- 
“Arish. 
Also known from Syria and Syria. 
1503. (5.) Crepis bifida Muschler comb. nov. — Lagoseris 
bifida (Vis.) Boiss. Flor. Orient. III, p. 881. — Rehbch. Ic. XIX 
tab. 79. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p..101 no. 662. — 
Trichocrepis bifida Vis. Strip. Dalmat., p. 19 tab. 7. — Pterotheca 
bifida fichand Mey. Ind. Hort. Petrop. 1843. Lagoseris Rireppelii 
Sch. Bip. Mus. Senokby, p.52. — A dwarf perennial, shining, puber- 
ulous 27/,—10 em high. Radical leaves numerous, forming a rosette, 
oblanceolate, mostly rounded at the apex, denticulate, attenuate at 
the base, subpetiolate, 1—6 cm long. Capitula 8—10 mm long, 
on pedicels ranging up to 6 cm in pedunculate lax open cymes. 
Inner involucral bracts 8, narrowly lanceolate, puberulous with small 
gland-tipped hairs, hispidulous on the keel which is thickened in 
fruit; outer narrower, shorter. Achenes 5 mm long, costate, attenuate 
at the apex into a beak. Pappus 4 cm long, nearly white. — 
Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Bir-Abt-Mezri’. — D. a. sept. Wady Rished near Helwan; 
Northern and Southern Galala. 
Also known from Greece, Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor. 
