Picridium
(from Picris, and eidos, resemblance; in allusion to its affinity with Picris). SYN. REICHARDIA. ORD. Compositae. Ten species have been referred to this genus, but not more than five or six are distinct as such: they are hardy, glabrous, annual or perennial herbs, natives of South Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Flower-heads yellow, long-pedunculate, homogamous; in-volucre campanulate, the bracts in several series; florets ligulate, five-toothed at apex. Leaves radical or alternate, toothed or pinnatifid. P. tingitanum, probably the only species in cultivation, is a perennial. It thrives in any fairly good garden soil, and may be increased by divisions. P. tingitanum (Tangier). fl.-heads on squamose peduncles; outer involucral bracts squarrose. July. l. all runcinate-pinnatifid, semi-amplexicaul, denticulate. Stems branched. h. 1 1/2ft. Tangier, &c.