Fig. 80. JACARANDA MIMOS.EFOLIA. 



THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS II. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



" Flowers, 

 My earliest visitation and my last." 



MILTON. 



IN the last chapter I commenced to pass in review the 

 Natural Orders represented on the Riviera, and to 

 inquire which is the most ornamental plant in each. 

 I now return to Mount Ida and resume the task. 

 The Epilobes, which have conspicuous flowers, grow, 

 for the most part, in torrent beds and on stone- 

 slides. E. angustifolium (E. spicatum), a garden 

 plant in England, is found in the Fenestra valley, 



