26 GUERNSE Y. 
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am not qualified to speak ; but, as regards Guernsey, the number of 
undoubtedly erroneous records is very small, the principal ones 
being Viola odorata, Acer campestre, Senecio paludosus, Plantago 
media, and Betula alba. Among those who assisted in the compila- 
tion of the Guernsey list we find the name of an accomplished 
botanist and horticulturist, Mr. Hilary O. Carré, of Valnord, one of 
the Jurats of the Royal Court of Guernsey, and afterwards Lieutenant- 
Bailiff of the island. 
In that well-written and comprehensive work, Ansted’s Channel ~ 
Islands, the second edition of which was published in 1865, long 
lists of species are given in almost every department of zoology and 
botany, and, although they are not all of equal merit, they serve to 
give a fair idea of the indigenous fauna and flora. These lists consist 
simply of scientific names, arranged in alphabetical order, to which 
letters are affixed denoting the different islands where each species has. 
occurred. The list of flowering plants includes all the species in the 
Flora Sarnica, together with about fifty others added for Guernsey, 
‘thirty-two of them by Major Smith, R.M., formerly a resident, nine 
by Mr. Wolsey, an exceedingly intelligent nurseryman and excellent 
botanist in Guernsey, and the rest by Miss Le Lievre and other 
island botanists.’ About two-thirds of the plants thus recorded for 
the first time have been found since, but the following species. 
require confirmation before they can be admitted into the Flora :-— 
Elatine hexandra. Ceratophylium demersum. 
Silene noctiflora. Allium Babingtonii. 
Pyrus communis. Luzula Forsteri. 
Bupleurum tenuissimum. Polypogon littoralis. 
Galium uliginosum. Agrostis Spica-venti. 
Scabiosa succisa. Elymus arenarius. 
Wahlenbergia hederacea. 
It is difficult to tell exactly what weight to attach to this list. 
The probability or improbability of the occurrence of certain species 
cannot be discussed now, but something will be said about each of 
them in its proper place. In a local flora every known record 
should be recognised in some way, and either confirmed, questioned, 
or refuted : none should be ignored ; for, even if a record be manifestly 
erroneous, no better opportunity can possibly present itself for the 
correction of the error. 
Through the kindness of Mr. W. A. Luff, I have had an 
opportunity of looking through an annotated copy of the Flora 
Sarnica which formerly belonged to Major H. Smith, one of the 
contributors to the list last mentioned. Besides sundry notes which. 
are valuable as confirmatory evidence of plants found by Gosselin 
seventy or eighty years before, he gives particulars of the occurrence 
of two very interesting species which are not marked for Guernsey 
in Ansted’s list, viz., Medianthemum vulgare and Drosera rotundifolia. 
