FLOWERING PLANTS. 51 
Some years ago Mr. Derrick informed me that the double- 
flowered variety grew in the meadows between Le Villocq and 
Sausmarez (VIII). 
Called in Normandy /en/ecéte (Whitsuntide), a name applied in 
Guernsey to Orchis laxificra. ‘These flowers are the ‘ ladysmocks 
all silver white’ of Shakespeare, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, v. 2; and 
since they appear, as Gerarde says, ‘when the cuckoo doth begin to 
sing her pleasant notes without stammering,’ they are also called 
Cuckoo Flowers. 
Sisymbrium officinale, Scop. Fledge Mustard. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common, especially in the low-lying districts, in waste spots and 
roadsides, and also as a weed in cultivated land. 
This plant was formerly held in high repute as an expectorant, 
and valued as a stimulant medicine. Even to this day it is con- 
sidered a remedy for coughs, hoarseness, and asthma: hence the 
French popular name Herbe aux chantres. 
Sisymbrium thalianum, Gaud. Thale Cress. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common in all parts, growing on dry banks, waste places, 
cultivated ground, and roadsides. 
Alliaria officinalis, Andrz. Garlic Mustard. Sauce Alone. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather rare, though of general distribution. I have noted it, 
sometimes in three or four stations, in nearly every parish in the 
island. It is a handsome plant, though not a general favourite, 
owing to its very strong odour of garlic. 
According to an old herbalist, this plant is called Sauce A/one 
from being ‘eaten in spring-time with meat, and so highly flavoured 
that it serves of itself for sauce, instead of many others.’ 
Erysimum cheiranthoides, L. Treacle Mustard. 
Casual. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Three plants sprang up as weeds in my garden at Fermain 
House in 1891, and a few more in 1892. I saw several specimens 
in the garden at St. George (vul.) in 1894, and was informed that 
the plant had been known there as a weed for ten years or more. 
This species derives its name, Zveacle Mustard, from being used 
among seventy-two ingredients in making ‘ Venice Treacle,’ a famous 
vermifuge and antidote to all animal poisons much in vogue during 
the Middle Ages. 
(Brassica orientalis of Gosselin’s list is not Zxys¢mum orientale, 
as proved by a specimen so labelled in his herbarium, which is a 
form of Arassica campestris. ) 
