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runs round St. Aubyn's Bay, was bordered with 

 Borago and Anchusa sempervirens, common viatical 

 plants in Jersey, followed by great quantities of 

 CEnotJiera odorata. Dismounting at Beaumont, and 

 walking to Bel Royal we found Alyssum maritimum, 

 and then visited St. Peter's Marsh, where Ranunculus 

 cphioglossifolius, Cyperus fuscus, and Isnardia palus- 

 tris, formerly grew, but with the drainage of the 

 marsh and its subsequent cultivation these rarities 

 have disappeared. Mr. Piquet, however, pointed 

 out the exact spot where he had last gathered the 

 Ranunculus. At Bel Royal, in Professor Babington's 

 locality, we gathered Hemiaria snbciliata, growing 

 in straggling dark green patches, not unlike Thymus 

 Serpyllum. Near it we also found Allium sphero- 

 cephalum and vineale, Silene conica, whose prettiness 

 is lost by drying, and CEnolhera in great plenty. 

 Passing through one of the shady lanes we gathered 

 Scrophitlaria Scarodonia, which takes the place of our 

 nodosa and aquatica, the two latter being rare in 

 Jersey. On emerging into the bright sunlight we 

 noticed the pretty Lotus hispidus and Sednm An- 

 glicum, while the gardens of the nice little villas 

 were blazing with Jlfesembryanthemum and Gazonia. 

 Nearing St. Peter's, on a shady wall we came upon 

 the Jersey Fern, Gymnogramma lentophylla, in abun- 

 dant fruit, but losing its colour, May being the month 

 for it in perfection. On the way to St. Ouen's Manor, 

 about Vinchelez, where we had previously caught a 

 fine specimen of the Jersey Lizard, Lacerta viridis, 

 before it threw off its tail, as did another we caught 

 near St. Brelade's. In these oak-shaded lanes ento- 

 mologists possibly would have been pleased by the 

 strong odour emitted from hundreds of the goat 

 caterpillars which infect and destroy many of the 

 trees about here ; but to us the smell of Allium trique- 

 trum that haunted our vasculi was deemed preferable. 

 Gratefully accepting the invitation to visit the Manor 

 H ouse, we went over one of the ancient homes of 

 Jersey, — the ancestral seat of the Carterets ; and had 

 we been archaeologists, we might have reported upon 

 the quaint oak carvings and mullioned gables ; but 

 being only botanists, we most enjoyed the view over 

 the island, down the well-wooded valley to the coast 

 of St. Ouen's wide-stretching bay, and the pond, 

 dear to botanists, the ultima Thule of our journey : 

 while, above us, the grand old chimneys, covered with 

 white and pink snapdragons, and the thatch-roofed 

 outhouses, covered with such profusion of Cotyledon, 

 surpassing any previously noticed, — not excepting 

 Pandy Mill, delight of artists, the rocky lanes of Car- 

 marthen, or the peat-topped walls of county Mayo. 

 Leaving St. Ouen's we came upon a marshy piece of 

 ground, where Lythrum hyssopifolium was plentifully 

 growing, though, of course, not in flower. Ranun- 

 culus hirsutus, Orchis latifolia, Bartsia viscosa, and 

 Hypericum elodes, also occurred. Nearing L'Etac, 

 the roadsides were bordered with Siuapis incana, and 

 a. wet meadow was adorned with the rich purple 



Orchis laxifiora. Chenopodium muralc occurred in 

 the village, Atriplex Halitnus being used as a 

 hedge-plant. 



St. Ouen's Bay is about six miles long, and is bor- 

 dered with sandy tracts cultivated wherever possible, 

 in some cases potatoes being planted in the actual 

 sand, where Carex arenaria and Festuca rubra are 

 agrarian weeds ; but the uncultivated portions shone 

 as a field of gold with Raphanus, Brassica, Cheiran- 

 thus, Sinapis incana, and other Crucifene. The road- 

 sides yielded Lotus diffusus, Allium vineale, Silene 

 conica anglica, Trifolium striatum and subterraneum, 

 with stems iS in. high ; while, growing among the 

 silvery abundance of the long-awned Bromus maximus 

 and Festuca unigiumis, appeared Medicago minima 

 and Armeria plautaginea, with other sand-loving 

 plants. 



On the hot toilsome walk across fields of small 

 dimensions enclosed by stone walls of rickety struc- 

 ture, specimens of Orchis laxifiora, Bartsia viscosa, 

 Cyperus longus, and CEnanthe crocata were noticed. 

 An exploration [of the shingle was next attempted, 

 when a solitary specimen of Crambe, a very rare 

 Sarnian plant, was seen. Euphorbia Paralias was 

 frequent, and is occasionally frequented by the larvae 

 of Sphinx Eicphorbii. Diotis maritima was not 

 plentiful, but Atriplex arenaria, Salsola kali, and 

 cakile were very common. Standing by the shingle, 

 and looking over to the sand dunes, a beautiful sight 

 was presented by the great quantities of Matthiola 

 sinuata in magnificent bloom, growing with the 

 glaucous Eryngium and glaring golden Brassica. 

 By the second Martello tower a nice patch of Lagurus 

 cvalus occurred, and plenty of Orobanche amelhystea, 

 while here and there might be seen bleached skeletons 

 of Mibora minima. Between the sea and the hills 

 appeared great patches of Ceutaurea aspera, the lower 

 flowers of which were only in bloom. On i-eaching 

 the hill slopes, a complete mass of beauties presented 

 themselves, so that the exclamations of admiration, 

 which had been popping off at no distant intervals 

 all day, now came by volleys ; and down we lay 

 among thousands of Dianthus prolifer, Linum angus- 

 tifolium, Orobanche ccerulea, Centaurea aspera, Cen- 

 taurea paniculata, and Scabiosa maritima. Next came 

 a descent to St. Ouen's Pond, where, having seen 

 Cladium Mariscus, we came upon Scirpus Tabernce- 

 montana, followed by its rarer relative pungens, and 

 eventually maritimus and pa uciflorus ; then came the 

 prettily-veined leaves of Potamogeton plantaginens 

 and the fugacious flowered Alisma ranunculoides ; 

 after which a long search was made for the leaves, — 

 it was too early for the flowers, — of Spiranthes a>sti- 

 valis and Epipactis palustris. On the road to the 

 Corbieres, Kaleria cristata, near albescens, Coryne- 

 phonts canescens, Radiola milligrana, Trifolium 

 arvense, Lepturus filiforme, Convolvulus Soldanella, 

 Bromus Lloydianus, and Schlerochloa loliacea were 

 found, but Solatium mittialum searched for without 



