io 4 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



C. Azarolus L. Represented by the var. ruscinonensis Gren. et Blanc. 

 Small spiny tree, 12-18 ft. high. Leaves deeply divided into 3-5 lobes, entire 

 or toothed. Young branches and peduncles downy or tomentose. Calyx hairy. 

 Styles 2, rarely i. Fruit rather large, acid and rather pleasant to the taste. 



Woods, hedges, and garigues, sometimes ascending the mountains, rare. 

 April-May. 



MYRTACE.E. 



Fruit a small ovoid nearly black berry. Evergreen shrub '. MYRTUS. 



Fruit a number of berries enclosed in a large coriaceous capsule PUNICA. 



MYRTUS L. 



M. communis L. Myrtle. An aromatic evergreen shrub, 3-10 ft. high. 

 Leaves opposite, close together, subsessile ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 leathery, persistent, glabrous and shining. Flowers white, axillary, solitary, 

 long peduncled, sweet-scented. Calyx-tube attached to ovary, with 5 spreading 

 lobes; petals 5, stamens numerous. Fruit an ovoid berry nearly black. The 

 leaves are sometimes silvery from the attacks of an insect of the Thrips genus, 

 like those of Arbutus and Laurustinus. 



Woods, garigues, and maquis, common. March-May. 



PUNICA L. 



Q. Qranatum L. Pomegranate. A branched and slightly spiny shrub 6-16 

 ft. high. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, entire, leathery, glabrous, shining. 

 Flowers bright scarlet, large, sessile, solitary or 2-3. Calyx red, fleshy with the 

 tube attached to the ovary. Fruit very large, subglobular, fleshy, reddish-yellow 

 with many seeds. 



Naturalized in rocky places and sometimes seen in hedges. June. In- 

 digenous in the Orient and introduced into Europe by the Phoenicians and 

 Arabs. 



Eucalyptus globulus, introduced from Australia, is a large tree often seen 

 on the Riviera, flowering from January to March. The limb of the calyx covers 

 the flower before expansion, and afterwards falls off in the shape of a lid or 

 cover. Leaves sickle-shaped when mature. Some of the finest specimens in 

 France are in the Jardin d'acclimatation at Hyeres. 



ONAGRACE.E. 



Petals 4, usually pink. Stamens 8. Capsule long EPILOBIUM. 



Petals short or o. Stamens 4. Capsule short LUDWIGIA. 



Petals 2. Stamens 2 Capsule obovate CIRC^EA. 



Petals 4, yellow (usually). Stamens 8 QINOTHERA. 



EPILOBIUM L. WILLOW HERB. 



E. angustifolium L. = E. spicatum Lamk. Rose-bay. A handsome plant, 

 2-4 ft. high. Root-stock creeping, and hence and owing to the numerous light 

 seeds carried far by the wind, this plant is rapidly increasing in Europe. Leaves 

 lanceolate, very shortly petioled, finely toothed or entire. Flowers large, 

 bright, purplish-rose, in long terminal spikes. Pod 1-2 in. long. 



Wood clearings in the mountain region above 800 m. rare. July, August. 



E. rosmarinifolium Hcenke. Erect, about 2 ft. high. Leaves linear, not 

 veined, often fasciled at the nodes. Flowers large, deep rose, in short leafy 

 corymbs. Style as long as stamens. Stigmas spreading or reflexed. 



Beds of torrents in the hills and lower mountains. June-August. 



E. montanum L. Stem 8-24 in., erect. Leaves mostly opposite, glabrous, 

 oblong-ovate, acute toothed, sometimes petioled. Flowers | in. diameter, pale 

 purple. Stigma-lobes short, not revolute. Capsule 2-3 in. pubescent. 



Damp woods in the hills and lower mountains, common. June-August. 



