54 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



D. hirtus Vill. Leaves rough, linear, channelled in upper portion with 

 3-5 prominent nerves. Calyx scales half its length, scarious, ovate-lanceolate. 

 Petals non-contiguous, limb toothed, slightly hairy at the throat. Flowers bright 

 red, rather small. A hairy plant. 



Stony places and grassy slopes. June- September. Local. 



** Flowers in pairs or clusters. 



D. Seguieri Vill. Stem 12-18 in. high, branching, angular. Leaves linear, 

 flat, in tufts. Flowers pink, with a purple circle round the centre, in heads of 

 2-4. Scales long, with erect, spreading point, equalling the tube of calyx. 

 Calyx rather long with sharp lanceolate teeth. Petals hairy at throat, deeply 

 toothed. 



Dry, bushy places in the lower Maritime Alps and hills. June-August. 



D. Balbisii Ser. = D. Hburnicus G.G. Stem 1-2 ft. high, with 

 ligneous stock. Leaves with sheath twice as long as broad. Scales equalling 

 the calyx, coriaceous at base and with herbaceous point. Flowers red, spotted 

 with purple, subsessile, in dense clusters amidst herbaceous bracts. Capsule 

 cylindric. 



Woods, stony hills, and waste places. May-July, and sometimes until 

 November in the Var. 



D. Carthusianorum L. About i ft. high. Leaves linear-acute, the stem 

 leaves with long sheath. Flowers a deep red, or carmine, subsessile, 2-8 in a 

 dense panicle, surrounded with coriaceous bracts. Scales scarious, the point 

 reaching the centre of calyx tube, which is dark purple. Petals hairy at throat, 

 toethed. Capsule cylindrical. 



Hill-sides and stony bushy places in the Maritime Alps and very rarely in the 

 Var (at Pourcieux). May-September. 



D. Armeria L. Deptford Pink. A hairy biennial species i-ij ft. high, 

 erect, stiff. Leaves linear-lanceolate, hairy, with sheath as broad as long. 

 Flowers pinkish-red, spotted with white, small, subsessile, 2-8 in dense clusters, 

 with herbaceous bracts as long as the flowers. Calyx scales herbaceous, hairy, 

 as long as the calyx. Capsule cylindrical. 



Sandy woods and grassy places. June- August. Local. 



Several other species occur in the Maritime Alps, but beyond the limits of 

 this work. 



HOLOSTEUM L. 



H. umbel latum L. A small annual glandular plant, almost glaucous. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile ; cauline leaves very few. Flowers few, erect, 

 white or pinkish, small in a terminal umbel with unequal pedicels, deflexed after 

 flowering. Sepals white, edges scarious, obtuse. 



Sandy or stony fields. March-May. Near Frejus, Ampus, Chateaudouble, 

 near Grasse, etc. 



CERASTIUM L. 



* Petals at least twice as long as calyx. 



C. aryense L. Field Chickweed. Leaves linear-lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Stems hairy all round, tufted, ascending. Brac.s and sepals subacute ; bracts 

 broadly scarious at margin. Petals bifid. Flowers numerous, white, in loose 

 cymes. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, glandular. A very variable plant. 



Uncultivated places and stony slopes. April-September. 



** Petals about as long as the calyx. 



C. triviate Lk. (C. vulgatum L.). Mouse-ear Chickweed. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, hairy like the stems. Bracts scarious at margin, much shorter 

 than the pedicels. Sepals obtuse, shorter than the bifid petals. Capsule curved, 

 twice length of calyx. Plant more or less viscid like the next. 



Grassy places, borders of fields, etc. March-September, 



