42 GUERNSEY. 
OXALIDACEAE. 
Oxalis corniculata, L. Yellow Wood Sorrel. 
Alien. First found: Gosseiin, 1788. 
Rare: generally in small quantity. Hedgebank at Coutanchez. 
Lane. behind St. Helena. Graie, St. Peter’s. Sausmarez, Catel. 
Lane from Annevilles to Mont Saint. Near Ville és Pies, Vale. 
Mr. Andrews has found it in a courtyard at Hauteville, in waste 
ground at Havelet, and on walls near Caudré Mill. Miss B. Agnew 
notes it for a lane near the Forest Church and the valley below St. 
Peter’s Arsenal. Babington recorded the plant from Grandes 
Maisons (x.). In Gosselin’s herbarium a specimen is misnamed 
O. Acetosella. 
(Oxalis Acetosella, IL. Wood Sorrel. This name occurs in 
Gosselin’s printed list, but a specimen so named in his herbarium is 
O corniculata. There is no evidence that the Wood Sorrel ever 
grew in Guernsey, even in the days when the island was well 
wooded. ) 
Oxalis cernua, Thunb. 
Alien. First found: Andrews, 1900. 
Established on a wall overhung by trees at Le Graie, St. Peter’s, 
where it was detected by Mr. C. Andrews in the spring of 19goo. 
This plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and is said to be 
establishing itself rapidly in southern Europe. 
LINACEAE. 
Linum angustifolium, Huds. Narrow-leaved Flax. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Frequent throughout the island. This species is the Z. wustta- 
tisstmum of Gosselin’s list, as proved by a specinien so labelled in 
‘his herbarium. 
The well-known Linseed Oil is obtained from the seeds of the 
Common Flax (Linum usttatissimum). ‘The generic name is the 
Latinised form of the Celtic “7, thread, from which we derive our 
word /imen. One of the good old proverbs associated with flax 
enjoins the necessity of faith in our actions: ‘Get thy spindle and 
thy distaff ready, and God will send the flax.’ 
Linum catharticum, L. Purging Flax. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Abundant in sandy places in the neighbourhood of Grandes 
Rocques and Portinfer, and at the western end of Lancresse. 
The whole of this little plant is cathartic, and-was formerly 
