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flowers all face one way ; by this peculiarity you may 

 know the plant in bud or flower^or fruit. Odontites 

 belongs to the Figwort (Scropliularia) family, an order 

 much given to parasitic backsliding : as witness 

 Rattle and Eyebright, mentioned above, and various 

 Bartsias, all found in this district. 



Orobanches (Broomrapes) abound. Felipwa 

 ramosa occurs frequently near Nice. Ardoino gives 

 it as parasitic on Hemp and on Tobacco ; but I have 

 generally seen it on Pitch Clover (Psoralea). 



The tangled red meshes of Dodder (Cuscuta) are 

 much commoner here than I have ever found them in 

 the north. 



The Mistletoe ( Viscum), which they sell at Christ- 

 mas for our especial benefit, does not grow on the 

 coast. The natives regard it as something very 

 curious. There is a good deal of it on the Pine trees 

 in the Thorenc valley, behind Grasse. Goats eat 

 Mistletoe greedily when it is offered them. At 

 Caussols it occurs on Willow and on Hawthorn. By 

 the way, I have never seen our British Hawthorn on 

 the Riviera ; it appears to be replaced by Cratcegit? 

 monogyna. This plant may be known by the single 

 style and the leaves more deeply cut, but it resembles 

 the other very closely. The famous Glastonbury 

 Thorn belongs to the one-styled species. 



The Mistletoe on Pine has much narrower leaves 

 than that on Hawthorn, in this district at least. 



Now for the plants which live upon walls. The 

 Caper (Capparis) should come first, but I have men- 

 tioned it elsewhere. The yellow-flowered Nicotiana 

 glauca forms a graceful little tree when it chances to 

 grow upon the ground. But I think that no one will 



