i 3 2 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



The following also occur: Inula Conyza DC. (Ploughman's Spikenard), 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate pubescent, corymbs branched; I. britannica L., rare 

 by ditches near Pignans, Var ; I. salicina L., an ornamental deep yellow species 

 found in mountain woods; and I. bifrons L., a tall glandular viscous biennial 

 with oval-oblong glabrous leaves embracing the stem. The last species was 

 found by M. Jahandiez above Trigance in the N. of the Var in July, 1913. 



PULICARIA Gaertn. 



P. odora Reichb. An erect hairy plant, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves oblong, entire 

 or obscurely toothed ; root-leaves large, petioled, stem-leaves sessile, half amplexi- 

 caul, auricled. Peduncles rather thick at summit, woolly. Heads 2-4. Flowers 

 yellow, rather large ; pappus reddish. 



Woods in the hills, common on the littoral. June-August. 



P. dysenterica L. Flea-bane (Inula dysenterica L.). Plant woolly or 

 cottony, with very leafy branched stem. Leaves oblong cordate, half amplexicaul, 

 irregularly waved and toothed. Heads i in. in diameter, few, terminal, ligules long. 

 Involucre densely woolly, bracts setaceous. Fruit silky. Scales of pappus 

 connate-toothed. 



Sides of ditches and streams. Very common. June-September. 



P. sicula Moris. Annual, 1-2 ft. high, erect, slender, often reddish, very 

 leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, half amplexicaul, edges turned down- 

 wards, entire. Heads small, on long slender peduncles furnished with bracts. 



Damp places and maritime meadows, very local. August-October. Hyeres, 

 Frejus, Cannes, Grasse. 



P. vulgaris Gaertn. has wavy lanceolate leaves, small auricles, and much- 

 branched leafy stems. It grows in places flooded in winter near Hyeres and 

 Fre'jus, and flowers in August and September. 



BUPHTHALMUM L. 



B. salicifolium L. Stem i-2 ft. high, branched at top and bearing several 

 large yellow heads about 2 in. across, with narrow spreading ray flowers. Leavts 

 lanceolate, acuminate, toothed. Scales of receptacle more or less truncate. 



Wooded slopes in the north of the Var, rare, and in the Maritime Alps and 

 Liguria. June-August. 



Ardoinos gives B. grandiflorum as the plant of the Maritime Alps, but as 

 Mr. Bicknell points out, 1 all the plants he has examined have the scales of the 

 receptacle more or less truncate, a characteristic of S. salicifolium. though the 

 very branching stems and long acuminate leaves are characters of B. grand!- 

 florum. 



ASTERISCUS Mcench. 



A. aquaticus Mcench. = Buphthalmum aquaticum L. Stock annual, 

 herbaceous. Leaves oblong, obtuse, entire, the upper ones sessile, half amplexi- 

 caul. Involucral leaves linear-lanceolate obtuse, much longer than the ray flowers, 

 inner bracts oval. Scales of receptacle truncate. Flowers yellow. Stem erect, 

 stiff, once or twice dichotomously branched. 



Banks near the sea, road-sides, etc. (not in wet places). June-July. 



A. spinosus G. G. = B. spinosum L. A stiff-branched biennial. Leaves 

 oblong, obtuse, hairy, mucronate. Heads solitary, subsessile. Flowers yellow. 

 Involucral bracts spreading, lanceolate, conspicuous and ending in a sharp spine. 

 Achenes of ray flowers broadly winged. 



Road-sides and dry banks, very common. May-July, and sometimes, as in 

 1912-13, throughout the winter. 



A. maritimus Mcench. = var. littoral is Jord. This occurs in several 

 places near Toulon as e.g. St. Cyr, Sanary, and La Seyne. The leaves are 

 oblong-spathulate, entire, never amplexicaul. Root-stock woody. Flowering 

 heads with one or two floral leaves, not spiny. 



1 " Flora of Bordighera and San Remo," p. 149. 



