FLOWERING PLANTS. WE 
(Pyrus communis, the Wild Pear, is noted for Guernsey in 
Ansted’s Channel Islands, but there is no satisfactory evidence of its 
occurrence. It has been recorded for Sark.) 
Pyrus Malus, L. Wild Apple. Crab. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Frequent along the cliffs from Fort George to St. Martin’s Point, 
but more commonly beyond Fermain Bay. Scattered trees all along 
the cliffs as far as the Corbiere. One or two at Rocquaine, one at 
‘the Hubits, and one on the Villiaze Road. I have only seen the 
‘var. mitis, Wallr., in this island. 
This is the parent stock of all our cultivated apples. It seems 
that in former days apple-sauce was eaten with shellfish, which 
explains the punning couplet :— 
‘The crab of the wood is sauce very good for the crab that lives in the 
sea ; 
But the wood of the crab is sauce for a drab that will not her husband 
obey.’ 
(Pyrus Aucuparia, the Mountain Ash, has been noted in some 
lists, but of course it has no claim whatever to a place among the 
indigenous plants of Guernsey.) 
LYTHRACEAE. 
Lythrum Salicaria, L. Purple Loosestrife. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. Hedges in Foote’s Lane, Lower Rohais, and in the 
adjacent fields. In two or three places between Ivy Castle and 
Baubigny. Hedge of a marshy field near the Hermitage, Vale. 
The name Loosestrife, which properly belongs to plants. of 
another genus (Lystmachia) refers to an ancient belief, mentioned 
by Pliny, that if a tuft of it were laid upon the yoke of a pair of 
oxen when they were quarrelling, it would quiet them. 
Lythrum Hyssopifolia, L. Lyssop-leaved Purple 
Casual (?). First record: Marquand, 1892. [ Loosestrife. 
In 1892 I found about twenty plants by the roadside at the 
entrance of a lane (called La Rue és Chiens, I believe) branching 
off the Braye Road in the direction of Noirmont: but two or three 
"years afterwards no vestige of the plant was to be seen there. 
Peplis Portula, L. Water Purslane. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very rare. Rather plentiful in a small marsh on the coast 
‘between Fort Doyle and Fort Le Marchant. Pool near Fort Doyle. 
Babington found this plant at Grande Mare. ii 
