The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . soms in the centre of its leaf-likebranches or cladodes. R. hypoglossum, with much larger and less pricklycladodes, does not flower until March. Anative of Southern and Eastern Em-ope,its only known stations in France are inthis district, where perhaps it isnaturalised. The resinous and aromaticLentisque (Pistacia Lentiscus), so commonon the littoral, now shows its dull redclusters of small berries; and here andthere the orange-red fruits of Osyris albacan be seen. This plant is interestingbotanicallv
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . soms in the centre of its leaf-likebranches or cladodes. R. hypoglossum, with much larger and less pricklycladodes, does not flower until March. Anative of Southern and Eastern Em-ope,its only known stations in France are inthis district, where perhaps it isnaturalised. The resinous and aromaticLentisque (Pistacia Lentiscus), so commonon the littoral, now shows its dull redclusters of small berries; and here andthere the orange-red fruits of Osyris albacan be seen. This plant is interestingbotanicallv, for it is almost the sole re- fruits are less beautiful than the gracefulhanging panicles of dull pink berries onthe Californian Pepper Tree (SchinusMolle). which is planted for shade andornament, as in California and the few wild flowers in blossomat this season of the year may be men-tioned the blue Globularia Alypum, thesweet-scented Calamintha Nepeta, thepretty mauve Aster acris, and the vellowInula viscosa. On the salt marshesthe Golden Samphire (Inula crithmoides).. Fig. Photograph by H. S. CANARIENSIS IN THE JARDIN DACCLIMATATION, HYERES. presentative in Europe, with a few speciesof Thesium, of the rather large family ofSantalacea;. Among black berried fruitsthose of the Myrtle and Laurustinus(Viburnum Tinus) are seen in manyplaces. A species of Privet (Ligustrum), whichthe French call Troene, is a small treemuch planted in the streets and gardensof Hyeres. It has leaves like those ofLilac, but longer,and its fruits are ratherblacker than those of Laurustinus. The still lingers, and the prickly Centaureaaspera can be seen in waste places untilDecember. The small mauve flowers ofIberis linifolia, on wiry stems 2 feethigh, lend a note of colour to some of thewoods, while Calendula arvensis andDiplotaxis erucoides, two weeds of arableland, may be seen in flower throughoutthe year. Among rarer plants in bloomthe first days of Decembe
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