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and rude implements shows that the change in level must have taken 
place in comparatively recent times. 
Excavations in the peat under the sands of Lancresse Bay in 
1895 brought to light a quantity of bones and teeth, the former 
being, unfortunately, much broken. Enough remained, however, 
for identification, and they were found to belong to Avs longtfrons, 
Cervus Elaphus, Sus scrofa, Ovis sp.,and Cants sp. Pieces of coarse 
pottery were dug up at the same time, together with a very in- 
teresting relic in the shape of a broken stone ring made of fine- 
grained diorite, highly polished. From these discoveries it would 
appear that the submerged peat beds belong to the late Neolithic 
period, and that pre-historic man inhabited this region, or, at any 
rate, that he visited it, perhaps for the purpose of hunting bison and 
deer in the primeval forests which have lain for countless ages 
buried beneath the blue waters of the Atlantic. 
II.— BOTANICAL. 
THE literature relating to the botany of Guernsey is neither 
voluminous nor ancient. ‘The earliest record of a plant indigenous 
to the island occurs in Symons’ Synorsis Plantarum [nsulis Britan- 
nicts, published in 1798, where the minute Rush /wmncus capitatus 
was added to the British Flora on the authority of William Hudson, 
author of the Alora Anglica. The record is worded thus: ‘ Habitat 
in insula Sarnza sed rarissime in loco infra pagum Lovet dictum, 
inter Fort George et Fermain Bay.’ By a confusion of names. 
Sarnia was supposed by subsequent writers to signify Jersey instead 
of Guernsey, and in Smith’s Znglish Flora, published in 1824, we 
read, under Juncus capitatus: ‘In sandy ground: very rare. Found 
by Mr. Hudson below the village of Bovet, between Fort George 
and Fermain Bay, in the Isle of Jersey: Symons.’ A trifling 
geographical error exists here, though it is practically of no conse- 
quence. ‘There is no such place as Bovet in the locality mentioned. 
What was doubtless meant was the small hamlet known as La 
Bouvée, which is situated, not between Fermain Bay and Fort 
George, but some way further south, between Fermain Bay and 
Jerbourg. The plant still grows on the cliffs in that neighbourhood. 
The earliest list of Guernsey plants is the lengthy and valu- 
able one which is printed in the appendix to Berry’s History of 
Guernsey, a rather scarce quarto volume, published in the year 1815. 
This list, which gives the Latin names as well as their English 
equivalents, arranged in alphabetical order, bears the following title, 
‘Flora Sarniensis, or Genera of Guernsey Plants, arranged alpha- 
betically after the Genera and Species of Hudson’s Flora Anglica, 
by the late Joshua Gosselin, Esq., a native of the Island, 1788 : and 
