FIOWERING PLANTS. 49 
CRUCIFERAE, 
Matthiola sinuata, R. Br. Sea Stock. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare: in sandy fields and on the sand-hills of the lowlands. 
Rousse Martello Tower. Portinfer. Rocquaine Bay, rather plentiful. 
Les Vardes, near Ronceval. This is the Cheirvanthus tricuspidatus 
stve sinuatus of Gosselin’s list; a specimen from Vazon Bay is 
preserved in his herbarium. 
Cheiranthus Cheiri, L. Wallflower. 
Alien. First record: Babington, 1839. 
On walls occasionally, especially in the outskirts of the town. 
This species is really not entitled to a placé here, as the plants are 
merely garden specimens accidentally growing on walls. ‘The true 
plant has the flowers of a uniform pale yellow, sometimes as pale as 
those of Diplotaxis, whereas the Guernsey form is the old favourite 
of cottage gardens: ‘the yellow wallflower, stained with iron brown.’ 
Nasturtium officinale, R. Br. Water Cress. 
Native. First record : Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common by streamlets and in wet places. In a bushy 
place at Grande Mare I have seen luxuriant plants from two to three 
feet high, approaching var. szfo/iwm, Reich. 
Called in the patois Kerson, the local form of the French Cvesson, 
from which we get the English word Cvess. Few native plants are 
better known than this excellent salad, which was highly valued by 
the old Greeks and Romans. The showy garden flowers commonly 
called Nasturtiums, or by corruption Sturtions (Z7ep@otum) were 
ranked by the old herbalists among the Cresses (JVasturtium) owing 
to the flavour of their leaves. 
Nasturtium sylvestre, R. Br. Creeping Yellow Cress. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Rare. Braye Road, eastward from the Vale Road, very plentiful 
in 1892 and 1893 on the roadside, extending for 200 or 300 yards. 
Mr. Derrick afterwards found it in the Melrose Estate, ‘lower 
ground towards the well, several plants in a group.’ In_ 1899 
Mr. Andrews saw it ‘ plentifully in waste ground by the Vale Road, 
north of the Braye Road.’ Babington also found this plant at the 
Vale. 
Barbarea vulgaris, R. Br. Yellow Rocket. 
Colonist (?). First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. A single plant was gathered in 1892 at La Villette, 
St. Martin’s, by Miss Dawber; and later I found a specimen 3 feet 
6 inches high in a lane between Hougue Fouque and Les Buttes 
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