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g'ouiiini prltatiiin — whose lea\'es are almost hidden 

 beneath the phik flowers. Yonder bush, bending in a 

 graceful arch over another wall, with its spikes of a'cUow 

 flowers, is the Chinese Ruddleia (B. Liiidlcyaiia). For 

 some distance the road is perfumed with Heliotrope, 

 growing over a railing close at hand: still further, bordering 

 the road, is a Pergola covered with saffron-Acllow Roses. 

 Two huge Wigandias, with large leaves. gro\v out froin 

 a cleft in the wall at A'illa Coplc}', and almost bar the 

 wa\'. Ijelo\\' them the ground is streu'n with deep \'iolet 

 corollas, as though a shower of flowers had fallen there. 

 Abo^'e the dark foliage of the Wigandias gleams that 

 of a silver-gre\' bush, now just unfolding its bright 

 }'ellow flower -heads. This plant belongs to the Pea- 

 flower tribe, is indigenous here and loves the rock\' sea 

 shore; it nuist feel strangeh out ot place among" these 

 ga\- surroundings. The soft, llo^\■ing appearance of its 

 silver}' foliage has won for it the nalne of Jove's beard 

 {AnflivHis Barba yoi'is Fig. p. 29 j. Pressing close 

 upon this is a plant from Equador, with panicles of 

 large, orange-coloured flowers — the Sli'cpiosolcn yamesoiii 

 of the Solaneae — which, on account of the profusion 

 of its blossoms and striking hue, linds increasing favour 

 on the Riviera. T'he tubular corolla has a curious spiral 

 twist at its base, hence the whole family has obtained 

 the name of "Drehrohre" in (Germany. Tcucriuni fnilicaiis 

 has long been gro'wn here, often as a hedge. B\- the 

 shape of its bright blue flowers it is easih' known as a 

 Labiate of the Germander tribe, although unlike our 

 northern species of Teucrium it can attain a height ot 



