FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



Sub-family III. CICHORIACE/E OR LIGULIFLOR/E. 



Florets all ligulate, hermaphrodite. 



SCOLYMUS L. 



S. hispanicus L. (Plate XVIII). Biennial or perennial, stem 1-3 ft. high, 



ate pinnatifid, 

 spiny, with non-cartilaginous margin and white nerves. Heads axillary, sub- 



usually pubescent, interruptedly winged and spiny. Leaves sinuate pinnati 



sessile, enveloped by 3 spiny foliaceous bracts. Involucral bracts linear-lance, 

 olate acuminate. Flowers yellow. 



Road-sides and waste places, common. June- August. 



CATANANCHE L. 



C. casrulea L. (Plate XVIII). Stems branched, 1-2$ ft. high. Leaves linear, 

 very long, 3-nerved, lower ones often with 2-4 linear segments. Involucral 

 bracts scarious, silvery, ovoid apiculate. Flowers blue, in a handsome solitary 

 head on a long peduncle with scarious bracts at the summit. 



Dry places among the hills. June-August. 



CICHORIUM L. 



C. Intybus L. The common Chicory with bright blue flowers is very 

 frequent at the borders of fields, etc. June-September. 



C. divaricatum Schousb. Differs from the last by its involucral bracts not 

 being glandular, its smaller size, and smooth stem branched from the base. The 

 crown of scales on the achene are also more developed. 



Fields and slopes. June- September. 



TOLPIS Biv. 



T. barbata Willd. Annual, a foot high. Stem-leaves few, lanceolate, 

 toothed; low one^ petioled. Peduncles with bracts at the summit. Outer 

 involucral bracts spreading, as long as the inner ones. Central flowers often 

 brown, outer ones pale yellow. 



Waste places and hill-sides. May-July. 



T. virgata Bert. Biennial, glabrous or pubescent. Stem-leaves few, 

 linear, root-leaves lanceolate. Peduncles almost without any bracts. Outer 

 involucral bracts very short. Flowers lemon -yellow. 



Same places as the former, but less common. June-July. 



HEDYPNOIS L. 



H. poly morphia DC. A very variable annual, 3-15 in. high. Leaves 

 hispid, lower ones lanceolate, entire or toothed, elongated at the base ; upper ones 

 sessile. Subglobular heads of small, solitary, yellow flowers, at the end of long 

 naked peduncles more or less hollow and swollen at summit. 



Waste places and borders of fields, common throughout the littoral. April-June. 



HYOSERIS L. 



H. radiata L. Root thick, with hollow scapes 6-12 in. high, glabrous, i- 

 headed. Leaves all radical, deeply runcinate-pinnatipartite, glabrous, with 

 regular, angular segments. Heads of yellow flowers solitary. 



Borders of fields, walls, and waste places, very common. March-June. 



H. scabra L. Annual, dwarf. Scapes short and thick, much dilated at 

 summit and hollow. Leaves radical, runcinate pinnatipartite, rather hispid; 

 yellow flowers in smaller cylindrical heads. 



Borders of fields, rare. May. Monaco, Villefranche, Antibes, He Ste. Mar- 

 guerite. 



RHAGADIOLUS L. 



R. stellatus DC. A diffuse very variable and glabrous annual, with few 

 leaves. Lower leaves toothed or lyrate, with large terminal lobe. Achenes 

 very long, curved and prickly and spreading in the form of a star. Flowers yellow. 



Fields and waste places on the littoral. April-June. 



