FLOWERING PLANTS. 63 
Lychnis diurna, Sibth. Red Campion. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very common: flowering throughout the year. There is a 
specimen in Gosselin’s herbarium to which is appended this note: 
‘A white and a red sort, rather different in the leaf, grows at Erm.’ 
Called in the patois Violette Sauvage or Violette de Fossai, \Vild 
or Hedge Stock. A favourite flower in cottage gardens is the Red 
and White Stock, which goes by the name of Vzoletfe, the Wallflower 
being Jaune Violette. 
Lychnis Githago, Scop. Corn Cockle. 
Colonist. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. Occurs most often in cornfields, but occasionally in other 
cultivated land, and-in waste places. Noted in all parts of the 
island, but seldom more than a few plants at a time. 
The seeds of this species are reputed to render corn unwholesome 
when ground into flour: and in Normandy the plant is known as 
Néle or Nielle des bles, a word signifying the rust or mildew of wheat. 
Sagina procumbens, L. Procumbent Pearlwort. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common everywhere on walls, footpaths, neglected garden walks, 
and similar spots. 
These plants are called Pearlworts from having been employed in 
olden times to cure a disease of the eye called feav/. The name 
Sagina (from sagino, to fatten or cram) appears to have belonged 
originally to some kind of corn, and etymologically seems ill-applied 
to these insignificant plants. 
Sagina apetala, L. Smallflowered Pearlwort. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Common in all parts of the island on walls, foot-paths, and 
similar dry places. 
Sagina ciliata, Fries. Fringed Pearlwort. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Not uncommon on all parts of the coast, on the sandy shores as 
well as on the cliffs from Jerbourg to Pleimmont. Two forms occur: 
var. patula, Jord., having a glandular pedicel and calyx; and var. 
ambigua, Lloyd, with pedicel and calyx glabrous. The former is 
the commoner form in this island. In Alderney I have gathered 
specimens of var. ambigua seven inches high. 
Sagina maritima, Don. Sea Pearlwort. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Frequent near the sea in all parts, especially in the lowlands. 
An inconspicuous little plant easily overlooked, and so perhaps 
much more plentiful than is supposed. 
