82 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



2. Flowers bright yellow. 



T. patens Schreber. Stem slender, flexible. Leaflets oblong-cuneate, 

 with ovate acute stipules at base. Calyx-teeth unequal, inferior ones twice length 

 of tube. Flower-heads on long slender peduncles, hemispherical and then 

 globose. Corolla rich golden yellow, with striped standard and diverging wings. 

 Terminal leaflet often petioled. 



Moist fields and meadows, rare. April-July. Antibes, mouth of the Var, 

 Ventimiglia, Bordighera, between Fontan and Tenda, near Frejus, at Goudin, 

 Bagnols, etc. 



T. aureum Poll. Annual or biennial, pubescent, rather robust, leafy. 

 Leaflets all sessile, oval-oblong. Stipules linear-lanceolate. Flowers numerous, 

 bright yellow then pale brown, in axillary heads ; peduncles thick, stiff. Calyx- 

 teeth unequal, lower ones longer than the tube. Style as long as the pod. 



Mountain pastures in Alpes-Marit. June-July. 



T. campestre Schreber. = T. agrarium G.G. Annual, pubescent. Upper 

 leaves alternate. Leaflets obovate-cuneate. Flowers golden yellow, reddish- 

 brown later, numerous, in tight oval heads. Peduncles stiff, longer than the 

 leaves. Style very short. 



Fields and dry places. May-July. 



T. procumbens L., Hop Clover., T. minus Rehl. (T. duhium Sibth.), 

 and T. filiforme L. (Least Yellow Trefoil) also come under this group. 



ANTHYLLJS L. 



A. cytisoides L. Under-shrub 1-3 ft. high. Stem leafy, white tomentose, 

 stiff. Lower leaves and floral leaves simple, others trifoliate ; leaflets oval- 

 lanceolate, flat, thick, greyish. Flowers yellow, rather small, subsessile, in a 

 long narrow spike. Calyx white tomentose, teeth almost equal. 



Dry slopes and hills, very rare. May-June. Fort Ste. Marguerite (Var) and 

 He Ste. Marguerite, off Cannes. 



A. barba-Jovis L. Shrub, 2-3 ft. high, silky grey, very leafy. Leaves 

 imparipinnate, petiole sheathing ; leaflets linear-oblong, silky and silvery, 

 especially beneath. Flowers pale yellow, in dense terminal axillary heads, 

 peduncled. Calyx silky, with 5 nearly equal teeth. Pod oblong-acuminate 

 glabrous. 



Maritime rocks, very local. April-June, sometimes in March. A very strik- 

 ing plant of the Riviera and often cultivated in gardens. 



A. montana L. Stems woody at base, 6-12 in. high. Leaves imparipin- 

 nate, with 10-15 pairs of oblong silky leaflets. Calyx-teeth equal to the tube. 

 Flowers crimson or rose, in dense globular heads on a long naked peduncle, and 

 with 2 leafy sessile palmatifid bracts below them. 



Rocky places in the lower limestone mountains. May-July. It grows 

 abundantly at considerably lower elevation in the Var and Maritime Alps than 

 usually in the Alps of central Europe (4500-6500 ft.). Once above Tenda the 

 writer came upon a mass of remarkably robust plants about 2 ft. high. 



A. Vulneraria L. Lady's-fingers. Root-leaves with 1-4 leaflets; stem- 

 leaves with 4-10 smaller ones, the terminal one very large. Calyx much swollen, 

 with oblique mouth and short triangular teeth. Corolla golden yellow. Poly- 

 morphic. 



Dry fields and hill-sides, rare except in the mountain region. April-June. 

 Less common in the Var than the variety Diiienii = A. Vulneraria var. 

 rubriflora Koch. A. Diiienii Schnltz, which has deep rose or crimson flowers 

 and creamy-white calyx tipped with purple. It grows on many of the limestone 

 hills such as Coudon, Faron, Paradis, etc. At Ste.-Baume the flowers are often 

 nearly white (? var. alpestris Heg.). 



A. tetraphylla L. (Plate XI). Annual, hairy, somewhat rampant or 

 prostrate. Leaves imparipinnate, with 1-2 pairs of small leaflets and a very 

 large terminal obovate mucronate one. Petioles dilated at base. Flowers 



