130 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



P. fragrans Presl. with very pale mauve flowers, smelling of vanilla, and 

 cordate leaves green on both sides, is naturalized in various places and flowers in 

 January-March. P. albus Gaertn. and P. niveus Baumg. grow in the Mari- 

 time Alps and flower in April-May. 



Tussilago Farfara (Coltsfoot) is common in clay soil. February- March. 

 The leaves, covered with a loose white cotton, appear long after the yellow 

 flowers. 



ASTER. 



A. Tripolium L. Sea Aster. A fleshy glabrous biennial plant 2-3 ft. high. 

 Leaves lanceolate, very glabrous, root-leaves long petioled. Ray florets pale 

 violet or whitish ; flowers in a corymb. Involucral bracts few, oblong, obtuse, 

 appressed. Pappus dirty white. 



Salt marshes and other places near the sea. July-October. 



A. acre L. Plant erect, nearly glabrous, 1-2 ft. high, with very leafy stem. 

 Leaves linear, acute, stiff, strongly dotted ; lower ones 3-nervcd, upper ones i- 

 nerved. Involucral bracts appressed, outer ones lanceolate, inner ones obtuse. 

 Heads numerous in a compact corymb whose branches are clothed with bracteoles. 

 Ray flowers bright mauve, disk flowers reddish or yellow. 



Hill slopes and rocky places, at borders of wood, etc., common. August- 

 November. 



A. Amellus L. A beautiful plant, as is the last, about 2 ft. high, with 

 larger bluish-mauve heads of flowers, and entire, lanceolate or elliptic, rough 

 leaves. 



Thickets on limestone soil above Grasse, etc., rare. August-October. 



A. Linosyris Bernh. = Linosyris vulgaris Cass. Goldilocks. A 

 glabrous plant about a foot high, with woody base and wiry leafy stems. 

 Leaves very narrow, linear, entire, acute, rather thick, dotted, i-nerved. Heads 

 in terminal, dense hemispherical corymbs. Involucre gummy; bracts subulate. 

 Flowers bright yellow. Pappus reddish. 



Limestone rocks and cliffs and hill-slopes, rather rare. September-November. 



ERIGERON L. 



E. acrlsL. Common Erigeron. Stem leafy, 1-2 ft., branched above. Leaves 

 entire, radical obovate-lanceolate ; stem-leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, half-am- 

 plexicaul. Heads axillary and terminal ; peduncle slender. Involucral bracts 

 narrow-linear, hispid. Ray flowers narrow, pale purple ; disk pale yellow. 

 Ligules scarcely longer than the reddish pappus. Fruit hispid. Annual or 

 biennial. 



Dry, sandy places, etc. June-September. 



E. canadensis L. Canadian Erigeron. Annual 1-2 ft. high. Stem leafy, 

 branched above. Leaves all linear or oblong-lanceolate, entire or slightly toothed, 

 nearly glabrous. Heads very many, small ; peduncle slender. Involucral bracts 

 green with scarious margins, glabrous. Ray flowers dirty white, or pale purple. 



Road-sides, fields, and waste places, very common. June-October. 



E. glutinosum L.= Jasoniaglutinosa DC. .grows on rocks on Mont Faron 

 and at Ollioules near Toulon. It is a viscous plant with woody root-stock, narrow 

 oblong-spathulate entire leaves, pointed and glandular, and yellow tubular 

 flowers in small corymbs. July-September. 



BELLIS L. DAISY. 



B. annua L. Annual Daisy. Annual, 1-3 inch high. Stem slender, often 

 leafy below. Leaves soft and thin, downy, toothed in upper half, oblong-spathu- 

 late. Heads rather small, solitary and terminal. Ray flowers white, often 

 reddish beneath. Plant smaller than 'the common Daisy (B. perennis L.), 

 which is also common on the Riviera. 



Sandy places and hill-sides. March-June. 



