74 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



** Shrubs or under-shrubs, not spiny. Flowers yellow. 



Q. sagittal is L. Winged Genista. Stems herbaceous, rampant, without 

 thorns, but with 2-4 leafy wings. Leaves simple, oval or lanceolate. Calyx 

 covered with silky hairs. Flowers in dense terminal racemes. Standard 

 glabrous. 



Dry hills and woods in the mountain region. May-June. 



Q. tinctoria L. Dyer's Green-weed. Stems 1-2 ft. branched, rigid, striate. 

 Leaflets oblong or lanceolate, nearly glabrous, ciliate. Stipules minute, subulate. 

 Flowers in slender racemes ; keel and pod glabrous. Calyx deciduous above the 

 base, teeth acuminate. 



Meadows, damp sandy places on the littoral. April-July. 



Q. pilosa L. A wiry under-shrub 1-2$ ft. high. Stems rampant, tortuous. 

 Leaves simple, elliptic-oblong, silky beneath, with 2 small stipules. Flowers 

 rather dull yellow, solitary or in pairs, in long leafy racemes. Calyx hairy, teeth 

 equal. Standard silky, rather longer than keel. Pods pubescent, flat. 



Woods and dry hills. March- June. In the Var the commoner form is called 

 Q. Jordan! Shuttleworth. 



Q. cinerea DC. A very branched stiff under-shrub, 2-3 ft. high, greyish- 

 green. Leaves simple, lanceolate, small, silky beneath, no stipules. Flowers 

 solitary or in pairs, in long loose spikes. Calyx hairy, teeth unequal, longer than 

 the tube. Standard hairy, as long as the keel.', Pods small 15-18 mm. long, silky 

 with 2-5 shiny seeds. 



Dry, limestone hills and woods in the mountain region. May-June. 



Q. candicans L. Shrub 1-2 yds. high, much branched, erect, very leafy. 

 Leaves trifoliate, petioled ; leaflets oboval-obtuse, mucronulate. Stipules small, 

 falling. Flowers in little terminal corymbs. Pedicels bracteolate, short. Calyx 

 hairy, teeth almost equal. Corolla glabrous. Standard erect, scarcely longer 

 than keel. Pod rather long, hairy, almost straight. 



Woods and hill-sides. April-June. 



Q. linifolia L. Shrub 2-5 ft. high, much branched, erect, hairy, very leafy. 

 Leaves trifoliate, sessile ; leaflets linear, rolled in at margin, leathery, silky beneath 

 and sometimes quite silvery. Flowers in dense terminal heads ; pedicels longer 

 than tube of calyx. Calyx silky, teeth almost equal. Standard hairy, longer 

 than keel. Pod linear-oblong, hairy, 15-20 mm. long. 



Woods and ravines in the neighbourhood of Hyeres and Toulon, rare, as on 

 Fenouillet, la Colle-Noire, and Isles of Porquerolles and Port Cros. April- 

 June. Not known elsewhere in France. 



Q. argentea Noulet = Cytisus argenteus L. = Argyrolobium Lin- 

 njeanum Walp. (Plate X). Under-shrub 8-12 in. high, stems branching, 

 silvery white above. Leaves trifoliate, silky ; leaflets elliptical or lanceolate, 

 green above, white beneath. Flowers yellow, with orange markings, solitary, 

 terminal or in racemes of 2-4, without bracteoles. Pods linear, silky. 



Dry banks and rocky places, especially on limestone. April-May. 



CYTISUS L. 



* Flowers in racemes, not leafy ; calyx short, campanulate. 



C. alpinus Mill. = Laburnum alpinum Lang. A small glabrous tree, 

 6-20 ft. high. Leaves trifoliate, on long stalks ; leaflets large, entire, pointed, 

 shortly stalked, green on both sides, sometimes hairy at margin. Flowers yellow 

 in a large, pendent, downy raceme. Pod glabrous, shining, with winged keel to 

 upper suture. 



Mountain woods and bushy places in Maritime Alps and Foret de Marges. 

 July-August. 



C. sessilifolius L. An erect branching shrub, 3-6 ft. high. Leaves tri- 

 foliate, lower ones and those of the sterile branches petiolate ; leaflets oval or 

 rhomboidal. Flowers yellow, in terminal racemes, with 3 small bracts below the 

 calyx. Upper lip of calyx entire, truncate. Pod long, linear, glabrous. 



