124 MAQL'ia ON THE C.\F D'AN'llHivS. 



is liberated, and from the ground as \\'e tread \olatile 

 essences are \\afted upwards. Rosemar\' (Fig. p. o/l), 

 Tli\'me, La\'ender (Fig. p. '257), Cistiis (Fig. p. N.V), M\-rtle 

 and Fistarliia (Fig. p. 34'l), mingle their sweet odours and 

 l^erfume tlie air. The general tone of tlie Maquis is a 

 brownish-green and onh' the Uowers light up its uniform 

 roloiu'ing. The\- are produced in profusion. The delicate 

 blue of the Rosemar\' is seen side b\- side with the \ivid 

 ■\ellow of the Broom, and the bright colour of the Cistus 

 near the dark violet ol the La\'ender. hi Corsica the hill 

 sides present the appearance of one liuge bouquet, and 

 the traveller is intoxicated hv the perfume exhaled from 

 this sea of flo\^'ers. Not \vitliout reason, tlien. ch3 sailors 

 assert tliat Corsica can be smelt at a great distance out 

 to sea: and before his death Xapoleon on St. Helena 

 longed lor the spic\' perluine of his natne island. 



There is indeed but little of tlie Maquis left on the 

 Cap d'Antibes. and \'ct on that small tongue ot land in 

 front of the garden of the Grand FL'itel one nia\' gather 

 most of the species which constitute file t\'pical Maijuis. 

 Among the shrubb\' plants the Rosemar\' (P'ig. p. ■'i71) strikes 

 us first on account of its perfume, its blue bilateral flow ers 

 and its rigid, linear leaves, wliicli are wliite and felted 

 imdcrneath. It is common everAwhcrc. Fhe sweet smelling 

 oil escapes if the leaves are bruised. This plant is grown 

 in our gardens at home cliielh' for bees, because it imjjarts 

 a fine thu'our to the hone\-. Its distrilDution north of tlie 

 Alps was lurtliered in S12 b\' a "Kajjitulare" of Charles 

 the (jreat, who ordered the "rosmarinus" to be planted 

 in the Ro\ al (jardcns. In olden times Rosemar\' was 



