28 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



ACTVEA L. 



A. spicata L. Baneberry. Stem 1-2 ft. high, glabrous. Leaves large, thin, 

 2-3-lernate, with oval segments, incised-dentate. Flowers white, small, in a 

 short terminal raceme. Corolla regular, with 4 petaloid sepals easily falling. 

 Petals 4, almost invisible. Berries ovoid, green and finally black and shining in 

 clusters. 



Sub- Alpine woods and stony places in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps. May- 

 July. Mt. Mulace above Menton, Tenda, etc., but scarcely within the limits 

 of this book. 



BERBERIDACE/E. 

 BERBERISL. BARBERRY. 



Spiny shrubs, wood yellow. Leaves spinous-toothed. Flowers racemed, 

 regular, solitary or fascicled. Sepals 8-9. Petals 6, in 2 series with 2 basal honey 

 glands. Stamens 6. Berry 1-2 seeded. 



B. Vlllgaris L. Common Barberry. Shrub, 4-8 ft. high, furnished with 

 spreading spines. Leaves obovate, spinous-serrate, shortly petioled on the woody 

 snoots ; or reduced to 3-7 forked spines jointed on a short sheath, with fascicles of 

 leaves in their axils. Flowers pale yellow in hanging racemes. Stamens irritable, 

 springing forward when touched at the base. Berry acid, in. long, oblong, com- 

 pressed, orange, and then bright red. 



Hedges, etc. April-May. Rare on the littoral, commoner on the mountains. 



NYMPH/CA L. 



Flowers white (in European species). Sepals 4, adnate to the babe of the 

 disk. 



N. albaL. = Castalia alba Greene. White Water-lily. Leaves floating, 

 orbicular, with cordate base, entire ; petiole very long. Sepals linear-oblong, 

 green outside. Petals oblong, obtuse. Fruit globose, with 15-20 stigmatic rays. 



Deep stagnant water, rare. June-August. 



NUPHAR Sibtk. et Smith. 



Flowers yellow, globose. Sepals 5-6, concave. Petals many, small. Carpels 

 many, forming a many-celled ovary. Stigma peltate, rayed. 



N. luteum Sibth. et Smith = Nymphsea lutea L. Yellow water-lily. 

 Leaves orbicular, with deeply 2-lobed base ; lobes usually contiguous. Submerged 

 leaves membranous ; floating leaves leathery. Flowers fragrant, yellow. Petals 

 18-20, thickly coriaceous. Stigma 10-30 rayed. Berry beaked. 



Stagnant water and slow rivers. June-September. Le Pradet and R. Caramy 

 near Cabasse in the Var. 



PAPAVERACE,E. 

 * Capsule dehiscing by pores. 

 Stigmas 4 or more, subsessile, forming a radiating disk ........ .' ..................... PAPAVER. 



** Capsule dehiscing nearly to the base by valves. 

 Ovary more or less 2 celled. Flower yellow ................................................. GLAUCIUM. 



Ovary i celled. Seeds not crested. Flower violet. .................................... ROEMERIA. 



Ovary i celled. Seeds crested. Flower yellow .................................... CHELIDONIUM. 



Corolla irregular. Ovary divided transversely into numerous i seeded parti- 

 tions .................. ............................................................................................................ HYPECOUM. 



PAPAVER L. POPPY (all annual). 



P. setigerum DC. (Plate I). This is a hispid variety of P. somniferum 

 L., the Opium Poppy, which is cultivated and subspontaneous here and there. 



