166 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



covered with yellowish hairs, and have short anthers ; the 2 longer stamens 

 more or less glabrous. 



Hill-sides and waste places. May-August. 



V. montanum Schrad. Differs from the last in being shorter, and in 

 its leaves being less decurrent. The corolla is usually rather smaller. 

 Dry, stony hill-sides. June-August. 



V. thapsiforme Schrad. Differs from the first in its much larger and 

 flatter corolla and its longer anthers on the long stamens. 

 Waste places. May 7 August. 



V. Lychnitis L. White Mullein. Stem-leaves nearly sessile, the lower 

 ones narrowed into a footstalk, all nearly glabrous above, but with a powdery 

 down beneath and on the stem and calyxes. Flowers numerous, pale yellow or 

 nearly white in narrow, branching racemes. Hairs of the filaments white. 



Woods and shady places. June- August. 



V. pulverulentum Vill. Hoary Mullein. Plant 3-4 ft. high, covered 

 with mealy white wool. Leaves sessile, lower ones often narrowed into a short 

 footstalk, broadly oblong and crenate. Flowers numerous, in small clusters, 

 yellow with white hairs on the filaments. 



Pastures and waste places. June-August. 



Stamens with violet hairs. 



V. Boerhaavi L. Leaves white tomentose on both sides, thick, crenate 

 or toothed, oval, upper ones amplexicaul ; pedicels very short. Corolla rather 

 large, yellow. Flowers in a long spike, interrupted at the base. 



Dry, stony or waste places ; fairly common. April-July. 



V. sinuatum L. Leaves shortly tomentose, sinuate-pinnatifid. Pedicels 

 shorter than calyx. Corolla rather small. Flowers yellow, in a panicle with 

 divaricate branches. 



Common in waste places and road-sides of the littoral. June-August. 



V. Chaixii Vill. Leaves green above, or covered with a greyish tomentum 

 which gradually falls off, crenate or toothed ; lower leaves with truncate limb 

 and long petioled, upper ones almost sessile. Flowers yellow with violet 

 throat, rather small, in separate clusters. 



Dry woods in the lower mountains. June- August. 



V. nigrum L. Dark Mullein. Stem, 2-3 ft. high, ending in a long raceme. 

 Leaves crenate, almost glabrous above, rather woolly beneath, lower ones large, 

 cordate-oblong^ on long stalks ; upper ones nearly sessile, small and pointed. 

 Flowers numerous, slightly stalked, bright yellow with beautiful violet anthers. 



Shady woods and borders of fields. May-August. 



V. Blattaria L. Moth Mullein. A tall and usually glabrous species. 

 Leaves oblong, toothed or sinuate ; lower ones stalked, middle ones sessile, upper 

 ones clasping the stem or shortly decurrent. Flowers yellow or very rarely 

 white ; rather large, in a long loose raceme. Pedicels slender, usually solitary 

 or occasionally 2 together in the axil of a bract and glandular. 



Borders of ditches and streams and cultivated fields, common. June- August. 



OROBANCHACE^). 



Calyx deeply divided into 2 often bifid pointed sepals CROBANCHE. 



Calyx divided into 4 or 5 sepals ; 2 bracteoles PHELIP^A. 



Calyx with 4 broad, short teeth or lobes LATHR^EA. 



OROBANCHE L. BROOM-RAPE. 

 The following are the most important species of Broom-rape, with the host- 



Elant upon the roots of which they grow, found on the French Riviera. The 

 st is based largely on the work of Albert and Jahandiez. 1 



1 For further information see the " Monographic der Gattung Orobanche," by 

 Beck. 



