1 1 4 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



** Partial involucre with lanceolate-linear bracteoles. 



B. junceum L. Annual, 2-3 ft. high, bright green. Stem erect, rush-like, 

 much branched at top. Leaves long, broadly linear, acuminate. Umbels 

 numerous, with 2-3 slender unequal rays. Involucre ot 2-3 linear-lanceolate 

 bracts. Partial involucre of 3-5 linear-lanceolate bracteoles, rather shorter than 

 the flowers. 



Dry, stony places, woods and fields. June-August. 



B. Qerardi All. 'Annual, 1-2 ft. high, rather glaucous. Leaves linear. 

 Umbels small, 5-7 rayed ; involucre of 5 linear-lanceolate bracts. Partial 

 involucre of 3-5 linear bracteoles rather longer than the fruits, which are oblong 

 and shining. Flowers yellow. Plant polymorphic. 



Fields and sterile places, local. June-August. 



B. glaucum Rob. et Cast. Annual, 4-8 in. high, rather glaucous. Stems 

 slender, with short divaricate branches. Leaves linear-acuminate, short. Umbels 

 small, of 3-6 slender irregular rays. Involucres of 5 linear segments. Fruit sub- 

 globular, small, hispid with little white tubercles. 



Sandy places and maritime fields. May-June. 



B.tenuissimum L. (a slender wiry annual with few linear grass-like 

 leaves) is recorded from Golfe Jouan and He Ste Marguerite. Its near ally 

 B. semicompositum L., a glaucous grey annual species with slender wiry 

 stem, with divaricate branches, short linear acuminate leaves, and small 

 umbels of 3-6 rays, has been found on the sandy Isthmus of Giens near Hyeres. 

 B. affine Sadl. on sandy places at St. Aygulf, and B. rigidum L. on dry 

 slopes at Le Luc, La Farlede, Ampus, etc. 



TRINIA Hoffm. 



T. vulgar is DC. Honewort. Stem 3-8 in. branched from base, stout, 

 branches divaricate. Leaves spreading, glabrous, pinnately compound, petiole 

 and linear segments slender. Flowers white, usually dioecious, males with 

 narrower petals. Male umbels depressed, female irregular, rays longer ; bract 

 3 cleft or o ; bracteoles 2-3 linear. Flowers minute. 



Stony and limestone hills, local. May-July. 



APIUM L. 



A. graveolens L. Celery. Plant glabrous, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves pinnate, 

 with 3 or 5 distinct broad segments, crenate or 3-lobed ; upper leaves very small. 

 Umbels small, nearly sessile on the upper branches opposite the leaves ; rays 3-6, 

 of numerous small flowers on short pedicels. Fruit very small. Plant strongly 

 scented. 



Marshy places, especially near the sea, uncommon. June-September. 



A. nodif lorum Reichb. Stems creeping and rooting at the base, the annual 

 flowering branches nearly erect ; whole plant glabrous. Leaves with 3-12 pairs 

 of ovate or lanceolate toothed segments. Umbels nearly sessile or on short 

 peduncles, each with from 4-8 rays. Partial involucre of several small lanceo- 

 late bracteoles. 



Ditches, marshes, and streams, common. June-July. 



CARUM L. 



C. Carvi L. Caraway. Biennial. Stem erect, branched, i-2 ft. high. 

 Leaves with a long sheathing footstalk, pinnate, with several pairs of sessile seg- 

 ments, which are once or twice pinnate, with short linear lobes. Umbels of 

 8-10 rays, sometimes with i or 2 small linear bracts. Carpels linear-oblong, with 

 prominent ribs. 



Meadows and pastures in the mountains. May-August. 



C. segetum Benth. = Petroselinum segetum K. Corn Parsley. A 

 A glabrous branched slender annual i-i ft. high. Leaves chiefly radical, simply 

 pinnate, with 5-10 pairs of sessile, ovate, toothed or lobed segments; upper 

 leaves merging into linear bracts. Umbels very irregular, the rays few and 



