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(Vicia varia, Host, a very beautiful purple-flowered Vetch, a 
native of Central Europe, has occurred as a Casual in Alderney.) 
Lathyrus Aphaca, L. Yellow Vetchling. 
Casual. First found: Collens, 1894. P 
Very rare. In 1894 Mr. J. S. Collens showed me two specimens 
of this plant, which he had found in a cornfield near Paradis, Vale. 
The ripe seeds of this Vetch are narcotic, and produce excessive 
headache, but when green they may be eaten without any ill effects. 
Lathyrus pratensis, L. Meadow Vetchling. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. Hedge of a lane between the Hougue du Pommier 
mainroad and Les Goubais. In Gosselin’s herbarium there is a 
specimen labelled ‘Roadside from Hougue du Pommier to the 
Piéce des Mielles,’ which is probably the same station. This plant 
used to grow, I am told, in a hedge at the crossroads by the black- 
smith’s forge at St. Martin’s, but it has not been seen there for many. 
years. 
Lathyrus latifolius, L. Everlasting Pea. 
Alien. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Grows in the middle of a thick hedge on the western side of 
Grande Mare—a marshy spot remote from houses, so that it is’ 
difficult to guess how it got there. The plant has been known in 
that station for over twenty years: it flowers every summer, but does 
not seem to increase. . 
This is the Everlasting Pea of cottage gardens, so called, not 
because it flowers for a longer period than others, but because it 
is a perennial plant, not an annual, like the Sweet Pea and the 
Common Pea. 
Ornithopus perpusillus, L. Common Bird’sfoot. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common on the cliffs and on the shore of the lowlands as well 
as in dry sandy waste spots and banks inland. 
Arthrolobium ebracteatum, DC. Yellow Bird’s-foot. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Rare. Occurs in many parts of Lancresse Common, especially 
on the western side, but also about Fort Doyle; usually in small 
quantity in each spot. Occasionally very fine specimens are to be 
found in old quarries. This plant flowers in May and again in August, 
and in 1894-I found specimens in good flower as late as December, 
in the hedge of a lane behind the Vale School. A. ebvacteatum 
occurs much more plentifully in Alderney, but in France it is not 
found nearer than the island of Bréhat, about fifty miles south- 
south-west from Guernsey. 
(Onobrychis sativa, Lam., Sain-foin, occurs in Alderney.) 
