RARE AND LOCAL PLANTS. 227 



This martyr of progress is mentioned by Kingsley in 

 his essay on Rondelet. Let this humble Linaria be 

 counted ever among the number of the sacred plants ! 



There is no corner of the Riviera but has some 

 special flower or shrub. On the sea cliffs there hangs 

 a very pretty little tree, Anthyllis Barba Jocis. The 

 silvery pinnate foliage is covered with down ; the 

 flowers are pale yellow. This Anthyllis is planted in 

 many of the gardens here. There are half-a-dozen 

 specimens by the little footpath which runs along the 

 eastern side of the Promontory of St. Jean from the 

 village of St. Jean towards the mainland. The cliffs 

 here, though it would not be pleasant to fall over, are 

 not steep enough to protect the plant against any one 

 who is determined to carry it away. At Monaco, 

 where the precipice is steeper, the Anthyllis has a 

 safer refuge. I think that I have seen this shrub in 

 the Esterels, close to the station of Trayas. Our 

 British Attthyllis mdneraria is not common on this 

 coast, but I used to find A . tetraphylla on the ground 

 now covered by the new Cimiez boulevard. 



Petite Afrique, between Beaulieu and Cap Roux, 

 but nearer the Cape, has an Asphodel (A. fistulosus), 

 easily known by the pink line on the flower, and the 

 hollow stems and leaves. It grows plentifully on the 

 stony slope of the railway embankment within a few 

 yards of the high road. I believe this beautiful plant 

 to be extinct in Nice. The only specimens that I 

 knew of in this district were destroyed in widening 

 the new boulevard of Carabacel. I hope that 

 botanists will be satisfied with admiring this Asphodel 

 at Petite Afrique without uprooting it. 



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