170 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



L. simplex DC. A glabrous and glaucous slender annual, about a foot 

 high. Lower leaves in whorls, the others alternate, linear or linear-lanceolate. 

 Flowers yellow, rather small, shortly peduncled. Calyx glandular-ciliate, with 

 linear-spathulate lobes. Capsule globular, longer than the calyx. 



Dry fields, old walls, etc. March-July. 



L. arvensis Desf. A similar plant to the last but with pale blue sessile 

 flowers with whitish palate. 



Dry, sandy, fields, rather rare in the south. April-July. 



L. chalepensis Mill. Annual, about a foot high, erect. Leaves of sterile 

 shoots linear-oblong, other leaves linear, erect, i -nerved. Flowers white, in a 

 long loose spike ; spur very long and slender and much curved. 



Cultivated fields and crops, uncommon. April-June. 



L. striata DC. Stem i-ij ft., glabrous, leafy. Lower leaves in whorls of 

 3-4 ; upper ones single, linear-lanceolate acute. Flowers pale lilac or mauve 

 streaked with violet ; palate yellow ; spur of corolla straight, short and obtuse. 

 Panicle loose and rather long. 



Fields, stony places, and road-sides. June-September. 



L. origanifolia DC. A small biennial or perennial, hairy glandular. 

 Leaves opposite, lengthened into a petiole, obovate. Flowers bluish-mauve, 

 rather large for the plant, with open throat, in loose leafy panicles. Calyx hairy 

 glandular, with linear, obtuse lobes. 



Shady limestone rocks and walls in the hills, rare. April-July. It grows at 

 Sainte-Baume (near the Grotto), Montrieux, near Sollies-Toucas, etc. 



L. rubrifolia DC. Annual ; somewhat like the last in habit but smaller in 

 all its parts. Leaves less petioled, the lower ones often reddish beneath. 

 Flowers bluish-violet. Calyx hairy glandular. 



Dry hill-sides and sandy places, uncommon. April-July. 



The following species may also be found : L. minor Desf. (viscid, flowers 

 minute) occasionally on railways as in other countries, L. SUpina Desf., L. 

 reflexa Desf., and L. triphylla Mill. The last is a thick glabrous and 

 glaucous annual ; stem leaves in threes, large, oval ; flowers tricoloured. 



QRATIOLA L. 



Q. officinalis L. Plant glabrous, 9-18 in. high. Stem erect, hollow, 

 square above. Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, 3-nerved, serrate in upper 

 part. Flowers axillary, solitary, long peduncled, pinkish-white with yellowish 

 tube, rather large. 



Streams, ditches, and damp places. June-August. 



ERINUS L. 



E. alpinus L. A small tufted and sometimes creeping plant. Leaves 

 oblong obtuse, sessile, toothed at top ; stem-leaves alternate, somewhat hairy. 

 Flowers in terminal corymbs, rose coloured. Corolla saucer-shaped with 5 

 emarginate lobes. 



Rocky or stony places in the montane region, rare. May-August. It de- 

 scends to the hills near Menton, Nice, and Grasse, and was found by M. Jahan- 

 diez in 1913 in the north of the Var. 



VERONICA L. SPEEDWELL. 



V. Teucrium L. Teucrium-leaved Speedwell (Plate XXIII). Plant 6-12 in. 

 high, covered with greyish pubescence and with almost woody root-stock. 

 Leaves subsessile, oblong, strongly toothed. Flowers blue (rarely pink), large, in 

 axillary and opposite spikes. Calyx-segments very unequal. Capsule obovate, hairy. 



Clearings of woods and grassy places in the hills, local. May-July. The 

 writer found a few plants with clear pink flowers and anthers on a grassy col 

 in the Sainte-Baume chain in June, 1913. 



V. Chamffidrys L. Germander Speedwell. Leaves broadly ovate, cor- 

 date, crenate. Flowers bright blue, rather large, on slender pedicels. 



