46 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



Common on dry banks in the littoral region of Liguria and eastern portion of 

 Alpes-Marit., where it flowers most of the year. 



Var. semiglabrurn Burn. = H. Jacquini Ard. Flowers pink. Leaves 

 light green, narrow, shining; upper ones and pedicels nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 often rolled in at the margins. 



Less common in the littoral region of Liguria and Alpes-Marit. Above 

 Menton, Val Nervia, etc. 



H. serpyllifolium Mill. Grows in a few places in the Var. 



H. polifolium DC. Plant shrubby, a foot high, with woody base. Leaves 

 opposite, hoary and downy on both sides, lanceolate or linear stipulate, margins 

 recurved ; pedicels bracteate. Stipules linear, small. Flowers white with yellow 

 centre. Sepals tomentose, inner obtuse. Capsule large, sub-globular, tomentose. 



Dry limestone hills. May-July. 



H. pilosum Pers. This is a sub-species of H. polifolium with narrower 

 linear leaves, almost glabrous calyx, slightly hairy on the nerves, and small 

 capsule. Sometimes the white flowers are smaller. 



Hills and dry places. May, June. Sollies-Toucas, Toulon, Ampus, Le 

 Chandon, etc. 



H. hirtum Pers. Plant woody at the base, greyish with stiff hairs. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, margins recurved, white tomentose beneath, stipules 

 linear. Flowers yellow, in long terminal spikes with many bracts. Sepals oval, 

 hispid. Capsule small, trigonous, downy. 



Dry limestone hills and garrigues in the Var. May-June. Other species 

 found on limestone hills are : H. montanum Vis. and H. italicum Pers. 

 Flowers small, yellow. 



FUMANA Spach. 



F. viscida Spach. (Helianth. glutinosum Pers.). A slender glandular- 

 hairy plant with ligneous base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, margin recurved ; 

 lower leaves opposite, upper ones alternate. Stipules terminated by a bristle. 

 Flowers yellow, in a short terminal raceme. Petals obovate. Pedicels pubescent, 

 twice as long as the oval sepals. 



Dry stony places and rocky limestone hills. May-June. Polymorphic. 



F. lasvipes Spach. (Helianth. laevipes Willd.). A slender plant 9-12 in. 

 high with woody base, glandular in upper portion. Leaves all alternate, linear, 

 setaceous, in bundles on the young branches stipules mucronate. Pedicels 2-3 

 times as long as the oval sepals. Flowers yellow. 



Dry hills and woods. May-June. Hyeres, Mont Coudon, Toulon, Carqueir- 

 anne, Menton, Nice, Grasse, etc. 



F. procumbens Gren. et Godr. (Helianth. procumbens Dun.). A small 

 decumbent shrubby plant 6-9 in. high with woody base, covered with short whitish 

 hair. Leaves linear, rather short, the upper ones as long as the lower. Flowers 

 solitary, yellow. Pedicels shorter than or equalling the sepals and the leaves. 



Dry hi 'Is and rocky places. May-July. Local. Toulon, Roquebrune, Mont 

 Fenouillet, St. Martin Lantosque. 



F. Spachii G.G. (H. Fumana Dun.). Differs from the last chiefly in its 

 leaves being alternate, and the upper ones shorter than the lower ; and the 

 flowers in racemes of i to 5, the upper one terminal. The slender curved pedicels 

 are longer than the sepals or the leaves. Valves of capsule very open at maturity. 



Dry hills and rocky places; very common. April-June. 



RESEDACE^. 

 RESEDA L. 



Leaves entire, lobed or pinnatifid ; stipules glandular. Flowers racemed. 

 Calyx irregular. Petals unequal, 2-multifid. Disk broad, honeyed, dilated 

 behind. Stamens 10-40. 



