Picridium. composit.*:. ^2'd 



pluricipiti. Ibliis iiiferioribus siiiuatis vel piniiatim lobatis partilisve 

 pleruinque denticulatis, superioribus a basi cordato-amplexicauli 

 oblongo-lanceolatis linearibusque subintegris. caulibus ascendentibus 

 simplicibus moiiocephalis vel semel bisve dicbotomis, capilulis majus- 

 culis lerminalibus pedunculis longis apice incrassatis insidentibus, 

 involucri pliyllis adpressis anguste albo-marginalis inferioribus bre- 

 vibus cordato-auriculatis ovalis interioribus oblongo-linearibus omni- 

 bus obtusis, flosculis sdbtus lividis. aclieniis externis nigris oblongis 

 sulcatis transverse grosse et suliargute rugosis, intimis albidi» obtuse 

 prismaticis sublpevibus '^ . Scorzonera picroides L. Sp. [il^. — Soii- 

 chns chondril/oides Fl. Grteca Vlfl. p. 67, tab. 791. — Picridiiitn niari- 

 timum Rchb. Ic. p. 26, tal). 56. — P. liguhitnmYeni. (tbrma maritima 

 pinguior). 



HaL. in incultis, ad vias et in niaritimis 2acynthi (Marg!), Gra.>cite et Cycla- 

 dum, Attica in scopulo Raphti (Heldr!), Gretoe (Rauli), Macedoni* (^Griseb), 

 Byzantii (Coumanyl), Syria- littoralis (Bl!) 



Ar. Geogr. Regio Mediterranea totius Europa» et Africte borealis. 



4. P. diohotomum (M.B. Taur. Gauc. II, p. 240 sub Soncho) 

 perenne, ghiucum,collo squamoso, caule elato crasso striato dichotome 

 et stricte ramoso ramis eiongatis junceis monocephalis, Ibliis radica- 

 iibus rosulatis late lineari-spathulatis basi sessili subattenuatis sinuato- 

 sublobatis margine undulato-crispo crebre spinulosis, caulinis valde 

 diminutis auriculato-amplexicaulibus, pedunculis longis taiidem apice 

 iiicrassatis, capitulis majusculis, involucri phyllis adpressis herbaceis 

 angusle albo-niarginatis iiiferioribus triangularibus acutiusculis inti- 

 mis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis, ligulis concoloribus, acheniis elonga- 

 tis columnari-tetragonis quadrisulcatis coslis tuberculato-dentatis, 

 inlerioribus hrvibus^ ^. P. dichotomum F. et M. in d.c, Prodr. VII, 

 p. 183. 



Hab. in siccis et lapidosis, Isauria in coUibus prope Iconium (Heldrl), Syria 

 horealis ad Aintab et Mesopotamia superior (Haus!,k!), Libanus circa lEden et 

 Hadet (Boissl Bll), Cappadocia ad Euphratem (Auch. 3-">58I), Arnienia Turcica 

 ad Bail)ut (Bourgl), Caucasus orientalis 12u0'-15U0' (M.B.. Ruprl), Armenia 

 Rossica i^Szovn, Iberia Caucasica (Hohen !', prov. Aderbidjan Persia' (Szov!) 



Planta 2-3-pedalis, capitula eis P. vulgaris submajora ; -species acheniis 2 

 lineas longis insignis. 



ZACYINTHA (Tourii. Inst. 476, lab. 269). 



Gapitulum pluriflorum. luvolucrum phyllis externis o calyculifor- 

 mibus brevibus internis 8 fructiferis dorso prominenter gibbis crassis 

 duris concavis achenia marginalia Ibveiitibus apice conniventibus. 

 Achenia dilTormia, marginalia a latere compressa dorso valde gibba 

 in rostrum brevissimum sunlaterale attenuata. achenia disci eros- 

 trata leretiuscula. Pappus scabridus caducus. — llcrba annua invo- 



