6 INTRODUCTION. 
PLAN OF THE FLORA. 
The Flowering Plants and Ferns are arranged and named in 
accordance with the last (eighth) edition of Babington’s AZanual of 
British Botany. The English names are those most generally in 
use, but mere book names have often been omitted altogether. 
Immediately after the name of the plant its grade of citizenship 
is denoted, and then follows the date of the earliest known published 
record, or of the first discovery of the plant in the island, with the 
name of the recorder or discoverer. 
The author is in all cases responsible for details of distribution 
and other particulars, except where such notes are followed by a 
name in brackets, or otherwise distinguished. As similar local 
names of places occur in different parts of Guernsey, or may not be 
generally known, Roman numerals have occasionally been used (in 
brackets) to indicate the district, the ten parishes being numbered in 
the following order :— 
I. St. Peter-Port. VI. St. Peter-in-the-Wood. 
II. St. Andrew’s. VII. St. Saviour’s. 
III. -St. Martin’s. VITL -Catel, 
IV. Forest. IX. Vale. 
V. Torteval. X. St. Sampson’s. 
Information which may be found in all the text-books commonly 
in use has been omitted, such as synonymy, habitat, and time of 
flowering. As regards the last item, a reference to the list of winter 
flowers given under the head of C/:maze will show that the pericd is 
considerably lengthened in these islands. 
Species doubtfully or erroneously recorded for Guernsey, as well 
as plants peculiar to the smaller islands, are mentioned in their 
proper place in the general enumeration, but the names are printed 
in smaller type and enclosed in brackets. Species known or 
believed to be extinct are distinguished by having a star (*) 
prefixed. 
All remarks on local names, folk-lore, etymology, medicinal 
virtues, &c., occupy a separate paragraph under each species. 
At the head of each of the cryptogamic sections will be found 
mentioned the sources whence the information which follows has 
been derived, together with such other notes as may be necessary. 
Each island and islet is treated as a separate area, and its flora is 
given in full, phanerogamic and cryptogamic, so far as at present 
known. The names and arrangement are the same throughout, so 
that the comparison of one list with another will present no diffi- 
culty. English names, notes, and other details already given in the 
Guernsey Flora, will not be repeated in the succeeding lists. 
The Table of Contents at the beginning of the book shows the 
