62 GUERNSEY. 
Silene maritima, With. Sea Campion. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common near the sea all round the island: occasionally on 
walls and dry banks inland, especially at St. Peter’s and St. Saviour’s. 
The flowers are frequently discoloured by a parasitic fungus ( Ustz/ago 
violacea), which infests the anthers. In these islands S. maritima 
flowers at least three weeks earlier than S. zzféata, and this is 
noticeable in Alderney, where the latter is fairly common. 
The patois name is Lilet d’bangue, which signifies literally 
Seashore Pink. This plant is one of the few British examples of a 
maritime species reappearing also as an alpine one: it grows on the 
Scotch mountains at an elevation of over 3000 feet. 
Silene conica, L. Sand Catchfty. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Locally common on the sandhills and sandy turf about Vazon 
Bay, Cobo, Grandes Rocques, and the Vale coast; also on many 
parts of Lancresse Common. All the plants are small, usually from 
one to three inches high, rarely more. In one place in Alderney 
this species attains an uncommon size, the plants growing to a height 
of twelve to fifteen inches. 
(Silene noctiflora is noted for Guernsey in Ansted’s Channel 
Islands. Certainly an error.) 
(Silene nutans, L., Nottingham Catchfly, occurs in Alderney 
and in Herm. It is included in Gosselin’s list, but the specimens in 
his herbarium are labelled ‘Island of Erm.’ As several other plants 
peculiar to Alderney or the smaller islands are enumerated in the old 
list, it would seem that Gosselin intended it rather as a Flora of the 
Bailiwick of Guernsey than as restricted to that island alone. ) 
Lychnis Flos-cuculi, L. Ragged Robin. 
Native. First record : Gosselin, 1815. 
Common in marshes and wet meadows in all parts. With pure 
white flowers at the Vale towards Fort Le Marchant. 
The French name is Fleur de Coucou, which, like Flos cipal 
signifies Cuckoo Flower; but in England this name is very rarely, 
if ever, applied to the present plant. 
Lychnis vespertina, Sibth. White Campion. 
Colonist or Casual. First record: Babington, 18309. 
Very rare. Two or three plants at the Vale, and one in a corn- 
field at Icart, were all I saw in three years. In 1892 it occurred in 
plenty in a field at Rue Poudreuse, and also near Ozanne’s Mill. 
Scattered plants have since been found close to the Vale Mill and 
on Rousse headland. In Alderney this is quite a common plant, 
and L. diurna is rare. The flowers are deliciously fragrant in the 
evening. 
