FLOWERING PLANTS. 97 
on the roof of every house, a custom which still lingers in England 
and on the Continent. 
Cotyledon Umbilicus, L. Wall Pennywort. Navelwort. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common throughout the island on old walls, stony banks, 
-and thatched roofs. 
The patois name of this plant is Z¢rigueur or Etriceur, a 
‘singular word, of which the meaning is obscure. Métivier (Dzycz. 
Franco-Norm.) says: ‘Etriqueur ou Stricheur vient du vieux frangais 
stricher, racler ou raser le boisseau. C’est une allusion a l’habitude 
-qu’ont les enfants de s¢richer ou de racler les épis de cette plante, et 
d’en jeter les semences 4 la nuque du cou de leurs camarades.’ 
This is an extremely strained and very unlikely derivation. Bearing 
in mind that the spelling is purely phonetic, and that ‘the word may 
ibe equally well written Z¢ricwur, it would be easy to derive it 
from the patois verb e¢rid/er, to rend or tear, and ceur, the heart, 
thus signifying the exact opposite of Heart’s-ease: but I cannot 
‘discover that the Navelwort anywhere bears a name approaching this 
in meaning. Its common French name is (Vombril de Vénus, a 
translation of the old Umébzlicus Veneris: and another old name was 
Flerba coxendica, from the resemblance of the leaf to the hipsocket. 
In Normandy the plant is variously called Godets, Grasse Herbe, and 
‘Chandelles. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. 
Saxifraga tridactylites, L. Rue-leaved Saxifrage. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Local and rare; usually abundant in the spots where it occurs. 
In several places on the coast about Grandes Rocques and Portinfer. 
Vazon Green. Near Rousse Tower. Lancresse Bay, and on the 
“Common below the Great Cromlech. In the south of England as 
well as in these islands I have almost always found this plant growing 
‘In company with Draba verna. 
An allied species, S. wmbrosa, which abounds on some of the 
Irish mountains, is the London Pride or None-so-pretty of our 
gardens. 
_Chrysosplenium oppositifolium. Golden Saxifrage. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common on the moist banks of shaded streamlets and springs 
everywhere in the middle and south of the island. I have not 
Mmoticed it in the extreme north. 
