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bordering the lane leading from Brookdale Nursery towards Noir- 
mont. As Watson observes (Comp. Cyd. Brit, ill. p. 493) this 
species is ‘more like parvifiora than rotundifolia, although it is 
usually compared with the latter.’ 
*Althaea officinalis, L. Marsh Mallow. 
Extinct. 
We have evidence of the former existence of this beautiful plant 
in Guernsey, by the preservation in Gosselin’s herbarium of a 
specimen gathered more than a century ago, labelled, ‘Near the 
house of the Abreuveurs, at St. Sampson’s.’ It may have been 
extinct in Babington’s time, as there is no record of it in FZ. Sarn. 
Lavatera arborea, L. Tree Mallow. 
Native (?). First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Locally common on the shores of the north and north-west, as 
far as Rocquaine. Plentiful and fine at Perelle and Lerée. Grows 
in most of the old disused quarries of the lowlands. Occasionally 
found on the south coast, but much more rarely than in the north. 
Lavatera sylvestris, Brot. 
Casual. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare. A few plants on the Vale Castle quarry heap, 
and also a few on the shingle on the Bordeaux side. The plant 
maintained its position in both these stations for several years, but 
did not increase in quantity. Plentiful in 1894 on a green patch at 
the end of St. Sampson’s Bridge. ‘This species is liable to be over- 
looked when past flowering, owing to its very close resemblance to 
some forms of JJalva sylvestris, but the three large lobes of the 
calyx at once distinguish it. 
HYPERICACEAE. 
Hypericum Androsaemun,, L. Tutsan. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. Sparingly in a copse at Moulin de Haut, near King’s. 
Mills. Scattered plants here and there on the cliffs between Fermain 
Bay and St. Martin’s Point. In these two stations this species is. 
no doubt really wild. I have seen specimens in a few places at 
St. Saviour’s and St. Peter’s, where they were certainly escapes from 
cultivation. There is a specimen in Gosselin’s herbarium from the 
cliffs on the western side of Saints’ Bay. 
This plant used to be called Balm of the Warrior’s Wound and 
All-heal; the English name, Tutsan, is merely a corruption of its 
French name, Zouze satne. Gerarde says: ‘The leves, floures, and 
seedes, stamped and put into a glasse with oile olive, and set in the 
sunne for certain weekes, doth make an oile of the colour of blood, 
