jo FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



RHAMNACE.E. 



Petals 5, rolled in ; fruit dilated at the top into a disc PALIURUS. 



Petals 4-5, or o, flat; fruit not winged RHAMNUS. 



PALIURUS Benth. and Hooker. 



P. australis Gaertn. Shrub 2-3 m. high, glabrous, spiny, with zigzag 

 branches. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, ovate-acuminate. Stipules spiny. 

 Flowers small, yellow, in axillary cymes. Calyx wheel-shaped. Fruit orbicular, 

 disc-shaped, broadly winged. 



Woods, hedges, and road-sides. May-September. 



RHAMNUS L. BUCKTHORN. 



R. AlaternusL. Shrub 2-3 yds. high. Leaves persistent, oval or lanceolate, 

 rather leathery, glabrous, alternate, loosely toothed at the membranous border. 

 Flowers very small, yellowish-green, dioecious. Calyx of 5 lanceolate sepals. 

 Petals o. Very polymorphic. 



Woods and slopes, common in the littoral region- February- April. 



R. cathartica L. Shrub of 2-3 yds. Leaves deciduous, ovate, acutely 

 serrate. Branchlets spinous. Flowers 4-merous, dioecious. Drupe globose, 

 black when ripe. 



Woods and hedges in the lower mountains. April-June. 



R. saxatilis L. A smaller shrub, very much branched and spinous, 

 branchlets greyish, opposite. Leaves smaller, stipules as long as the petiole 

 and not much shorter. Calyx of 4 lanceolate lobes. 



Rocks and dry places in the mountains. April-July. 



R. alpina L. Shrub of 1-3 yds., erect. Branchlets alternate, not spiny. 

 Leaves large, deciduous, oval or suborbicular, serrate. Calyx of 4 triangular 

 lobes. Flowers dioecious, few. 



Rocks and woods in the mountains, May-June, but not reaching as high as 

 R. pumila (which is not found in the Var but only in the Maritime Alps). 



R. Frangula L. Black Dogwood. Shrub 1-4 yds. high, erect, not spiny. 

 Leaves obovate, quite entire, nerves parallel. Flowers 5-merous, bisexual. Drupe 

 globose, black when ripe. 



Woods and hedges in the hill district. Rare. April-July. 



FRAXINACE/E. 



FRAXINUS L. (often placed in OLEACE^). 



F. excelsior L. Ash. A tall deciduous tree. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 

 serrate, 4-7 pairs. Perianth o. Flowers small, polygamous, in dense axillary 

 panicles. Stamens purple. Samaras i J in. in large drooping panicles, pedicelled, 

 linear-oblong, notched at tip. Very polymorphic. 

 Woods and borders of streams. March-May. 



F. Ornus L. Tree of 7-8 yds. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 2-4 pairs, serrate, 

 greyish beneath, slightly pubescent above. Flowers whitish. Calyx and corolla 

 of 4 divisions. Anthers on long filaments. 



Hedges and borders of streams in Alpes-Marit. April-May. 



TEREB1NTHACE,E or ANACARDIACE/E. 



Flowers dioecious ; petals o ; stamens 5 PISTACIA. 



Flowers hermaphrodite ; petals 5 ; stamens 5 RHUS. 



PISTACIA L. 



P. Lentiscus L. Lentisque (Plate IX). Shrub 1-3 yds. high, rarely a 

 small tree of 5 or 6 yds., with a strong resinous smell. Leaves persistent, 

 paripinnate, with winged petiole. Leaflets elliptic, obtuse, in 2-5 pairs. Flowers 

 in dense short simple spikes, hermaphrodite, very small greenish-red, and some- 



