66 GUERNSE Y. 
Lepigonum rubrum, Fr. Field Sandwort-Spurrey. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rather common in all parts in dry, sandy, or gravelly spots, and 
in old quarries, especially near the sea. 
Lepigonum rupestre, Kindb. Rock Sandwort-Spurrey. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common on rocks and banks all round the coast: also inland 
occasionally. In the Botan. Exch. Club Report for 1870, p. Io, 
Dr. Boswell says: ‘ Spergularia rupicola, Lebel (rupestris, Lon. Cat.) 
was first introduced into the British list in the London Catalogue of 
1857 on my own authority, from specimens collected in Guernsey in 
1853. In 1860 it was detected in Britain proper in the Isle of 
Wight by Mr. A. G. More.’ In Townsend’s Flora of Hampshire, 
p. 62, the latter date is wrongly printed 1840. There can be no 
doubt that this was the plant intended by Babington in 7. Sarn. 
p. 16, under the name Avenaria marina, Oed, which he noted for 
‘Sea-coast : Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou.’ The 
present species is common throughout this area, whereas no suitable 
locality occurs in the four smaller islands for either Z. marinum or 
L. salinum. The Avrenaria marina of Gosselin’s list is also this 
species. 
Lepigonum salinum, Fr. Sea Sandwort-Spurrey. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. Used to grow ten years ago in a small marsh on the 
north side of Bordeaux, but the marsh has been filled up with 
quarry rubbish. Plentiful in a marshy field by Ivy Castle. 
Brackish pool at Pulias. Wet corner of a field below the Vale 
Mill. In most cases the seeds are without a scarious wing. Mr. 
Andrews has found this plant in a marsh near Rousse (Ix.), in the 
marshes by the Vale pond, and abundantly at Claire Mare, 
Perelle. In Gosselin’s herbarium three species are mixed together : 
L. rubrum, L. salinum, and L. rupestre, and the sheets are labelled, 
‘ Arenaria rubra and marina.’ 
Spergula arvensis, L. Corn Spurrey. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common in all parts in cultivated fields and waste ground. A 
curious dwarf form occurs here and there all along the south cliffs: it 
is only an inch or two in length, prostrate, and flowers as early as 
March or April, sometimes even in February. It is usually quite 
over before the type form commences to flower. The seeds are 
exactly similar to those of the large form, and are not winged, as in 
some of the Continental species. A dwarf form, similar to this in 
habit, but flowering in summer, occurs in dry places at Lancresse ; 
and Mr. Andrews has found intermediate decumbent forms at 
Paradis. 
