56 GUERNSEY. 
From its hot, pungent taste, this plant was much in request at 
one time as a condiment, being used at table in the same way as 
Horse radish. It was known under the name of Dittander or Poor 
Man’s Pepper, and used to be cultivated in cottage gardens. 
Capsella Bursa-pastoris, DC. Shepherd’s Purse. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common everywhere in cultivated ground, waste places, and 
roadsides. 
Once a famous remedy for wounds and bruises, and employed as 
an astringent against spitting of blood or bleeding at the nose. 
Hence it was called Poor Man’s Parmaceti, a corruption of Sper- 
maceti, which was in great request as a vulnerary in Shakespeare’s 
time. The word occurs in Henry /V., First Part, iv. 1, where 
Parmaceti is said to be ‘the sovereign’st thing on earth’ for an 
inward bruise. 
Senebiera Coronopus, Por. Commen Wart Cress. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather rare. Of general distribution, but more often met with 
on the lower levels of the interior and the coast. 
Senebiera didyma, Pers. Lesser Wart Cres. 
Denizen. First record: Babington, 1839. 
‘Generally distributed, and common in waste corners and by 
roadsides. Much more plentiful than the last species, from which 
it may be readily distinguished by its strong, rank odour. This 
plant is supposed to have come originally from America. 
Bunias orientalis, L. 
Casual. First found: Andrews, 1899. 
Very rare. Three clumps of this plant were discovered by 
Mr. Cecil Andrews in July, 1899, in meadows near Ozanne’s Tower, 
Cobo. This species is a native of south-eastern Europe, and has 
very seldom been seen in England. 
Cakile maritima, Scop. Sea Rocket. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Scattered plants, occasionally numerous, occur all along the 
sandy shores of the lowlands from Rocquaine to Lancresse and 
Belgrave Bay. In 1900 Mr. Andrews found some extremely fine 
plants belonging to the var. ¢~¢egrifolia, Koch., in a cultivated field 
100 feet above the sea, near the Caudré Mill (v1.). ; 
Gerarde tells us that ‘the root and seede stamped, and 
mixed with vinegar and the gall of an ox, taketh away freckles, 
lentiles, black and blewe spots, and all such deformities of the 
face.’ 
