26 Notices~of a few rare Plants 



Before doing this, I will, however, briefly glance at the 

 various situations which afford the different plants. 



The greater part of the coast is composed of perpendicular 

 granite cliffs, too much washed by the sea to admit of much 

 vegetation, except a few lichens. In some sheltered bays, 

 however, they are clothed with vegetation, including some 

 rare maritime species. The grassy slopes above them also 

 afford several very rare plants, which, with us, usually affect 

 similar situations. Jersey is remarkably deficient in streams 

 or pools, in which we might look for marsh plants. In the 

 marshes of St. Ouen's Bay is a large piece of water, called 

 St. Ouen's Pond. I only saw it from a distance ; but it ap- 

 peared to have no plants on its margin. 



The principal streams (and these, too, are very small) are 

 in the valleys of St. Laurence and St. Peter, especially the 

 latter. They form a number of boggy meadows, which would 

 probably afford some rare Carices. 



I am not aware of the existence of any salt marshes, unless 

 they exist in Granville and St. Ouen's Bays. 



There are not many inland rocks, except on the hills 

 called coties, which occur in most parts of the island. They 

 are principally covered with furze, with points of rock peep- 

 ing up through the turf. In a few places, there are, how- 

 ever, faces of rock ; but they do not afford any very rare 

 plants. 



The deep lanes which intersect the country in every direc- 

 tion, especially those whose banks are rocky, seem well 

 adapted for ferns; though the number of these is more 

 limited than I should have expected. The sandy shores of 

 St. Aubyn's, St. Brelade's, and St. Ouen's Bays afford, per- 

 haps, the greatest number of rare plants. But the most 

 curious spot is the extraordinary inland sandy district of Les 

 Quenvais, which is situated in the parish of St. Brelade. It 

 is an immense deposit of drift sand, nearly a mile from the 

 sea, which is there bordered by high cliffs. How it got there, 

 it is difficult to imagine. It is now pretty firmly fixed by an 

 abundance of Ammophila arundinacea, and affords a rich 

 harvest of plants generally peculiar to sea-shore sands. 



I have only one plant in my list which I believe new to the 

 British flora ; and this I give with some hesitation, as I only 

 saw it in a very decayed state; but, from the description given 

 to me by those who saw it in perfection, I cannot find that it 

 agrees with any described British species. Several of the 

 plants mentioned are not properly rare, but, in England, are 

 generally local. 



