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all about the cliffs in great profusion the sea radish 

 showed its curious pods and yellow flowers, while 

 among the bushes the prickly plants of the butcher's 

 broom hid themselves away. The south coast of 

 Guernsey is by far the finest ; it consists of bold 

 rocky bays and inlets, where the sea rushes in among 

 the rocks, dashing up its white foam high into the 

 air, even on the calmest day. All the furze bushes 

 along this coast are covered with a thick red web of 

 CitsaUa Epithymunt. On the ivy-covered banks and 



than English, in fact, in winter you seldom see an 

 English coin. They have a copper coinage of their 

 own, but use French gold and silver. In Jersey, 

 English gold and silver only are used. On the third 

 morning I took passage on the good ship ' Cygnus ' 

 for Jersey, and after a three hours' passage landed at 

 St. Heliers. Walking along the sands of St. Aubin's 

 Bay, I came across Allium sphccrocephaliim. Allium 

 vhieale, var. capsuUfcrina, Echium plantagineitmy 

 Onothera odorata, Alyssutn maritiinum, and B ramus 



Fig. 26. — Grass Poa [Laihyrus Xissolia). 



walls in the narrow shady lanes may be found 

 Orobanche Hedercc. The west coast was my last day's 

 work ; after crossing the island from St. Peter Port, 

 came to Grand Cobo, where I found Cyperiis longus, 

 Orobanche amethystea, Tamarix Auglica, Lavatera 

 arborea, and, about Vazon Bay, Ceniaurea aspera, 

 yimcus actiius, Schccmis jiigricaiis, Bromus mollis, 

 \3x.3. glabrcscens, and Festiica tiniglufnis. Guernsey 

 seems to have more of the French element in it than 

 Jersey, for you see notices up in French all about the 

 island, and there is much more French money used 



Fig. 27.— Butcher's Broom [Ruscus acukatus). 



rnaximiis ; Scnebiera didyma grew about St. Aubin's 

 in great profusion, and very fine. I walked on to St. 

 Peter's, and by the roadside found Asplcnium lanceo- 

 latum and Sedum sexangulare, also Vcrbascum nigrum 

 in a field. In a small valley running down to St. 

 Ouen's Bay, the small Sibthorpia Europcea crept ovev 

 the damp shady banks. In the evening I arrived at 

 the best hunting ground in Jersey for rare plants, St. 

 Ouen's Bay ; here were the hoary sinUate-leaved sea 

 stock, Mai/iiola sinuata and Armeria plantaginea in 

 great quantity. That night I stayed at a very conrj- 



