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A very distinct species, belonging to the same set as M. qiierci- 

 foLia Hall, f., but distinguished at once by its mallow-like leaves. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Kowie sand hills, Eastern frontier, P. 

 MacCoivan, no. 403, Dec. 1863 (in herb. Trin. Coll. Dublin). 



NOTES ON JERSEY PLANTS. 



By L. V. Lester, M.A., F.L.S. 



The following rough notes, compiled during five years' residence 

 in Jersey, may be of interest to British botanists. Babington's 

 PiimiticB Flora Sarnicm, published in 1839, the result of two visits 

 to the Channel Islands in July-August, 1837, and June-August, 

 1838, is out of date and most misleading. Many plants are in- 

 cluded in it, mostly on the authority of Professor Lagasca and 

 Mr. B. Saunders, which certainly never grew in Jersey;''' many 

 other plants are omitted. Mr. J. Piquet published a list of Jersey 

 plants in the Proceediiu/s of the Societe Jersiaise in 1896, which 

 represents the flora of the island much better ; but it is not much 

 more than a very useful catalogue, and rarely distinguishes between 

 natives and foreigners. In the course of five years' fairly assiduous 

 botanizing I have collected materials for a Flora of Jersey, which 

 I hope before very long to publish ; and I should be very grateful 

 if any botanists who have records or notes which they do not intend 

 to use themselves would be kmd enough to communicate them to me. 



Ranunculus opliioylosdfolius Vill. is extinct. — R, chcarophyllus L. 

 is still to be found in the only known locality. Probably native. 



Fumaria Burai Jord. is a most abundant and characteristic 

 Jersey plant. 



Crambe maritima L. Extinct. 



Viola nana DC. Abundant in sandy places. 



DUmthus gallicus DC. A plant found growing in some quantity 

 by Mr. Piquet, in 1897, in an out-of-the-way part of the sandy bay 

 of St. Oueu's, was thus named by Mr. F. N. Williams in Journ. 

 Bot. 1898, p. 493. There is a large patch, and the locality looks as 

 if it were beyond suspicion ; but St. Ouen's Bay is full of casuals 

 and naturalized aliens. Not found in Normandy, but common on 

 the sands of the west coast of France as far north as Quimper, in 

 South Brittany. Just possibly native ; certainly well established. 



The abundance of small Leguminom belonging to the genera 

 Trigonella, Medirago, Tn/oliuui, Lotus, and Orniihopus is a marked 

 feature. — Trifolium Molinerii Balb. Only on a small islet in Por- 

 telet Bay, accessible at low water. — T. strictum L. One of the 

 rarest of Jersey plants. 



* [The mistakes were probably due to the latter, as Lagasca knew plants 

 well. In his diary under Aug. 7, 1837, Babington writes : " Called upon Mr. B. 

 Saunders of the Caesarean Nursery, who showed us a list that he had formed of 

 the native plants of the island, and allowed us to extract those names which did 

 not occur in our list " {Memorials of C. C. Babington, p. 66).— Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



