FLOWERING PLANTS. 99 
Apium inundatum, Reich. Least Marshwort. 
Native, First record: Babington, 1839. 
Rare. Pool by Fort Doyle Marsh on the coast between Fort 
Doyle and Fort Le Marchant. 
Petroselinum sativum, Hoffm. Parsley. 
Alien First record: Babington, 1839. 
Abundant and thoroughly naturalised on the shingle at Lerée 
and Perelle. Northern end of Rocquaine Bay. Cobo. Rather 
plentiful at the Vale Castle, above the moat. Common in stone 
hedges about Grandes Rocques. Icart, on ruined walls. 
In Guernsey, as in Devonshire, there is a rooted belief that it is 
exceedingly unlucky to transplant Parsley ; serious injury, if not 
death, resulting to the offender himself or to some member of his 
family within the course of the year. This superstition, which is 
said to prevail also in parts of South America, may be connected 
with the custom of the ancient Greeks, who used the plant to 
bestrew the tombs of the dead. 
(Sison Amomum, L., Bastard Stone Parsley, is mentioned in 
Gosselin’s list, but as there is no specimen in his herbarium, and the 
plant has not been found since, it must be regarded as an uncertain 
record.) 
Ammi majus, L. 
Casual. First found: Miss Dawber, 1888. 
A single plant was found in 1888 by Miss M. Dawber in a 
cultivated field near La Turquie, Vale; and I afterwards saw the 
specimen in her herbarium. This species occurs very rarely in 
Normandy, and only as an introduced plant. 
Aegopodium Podagraria, L. Goutweed. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare, but abundant where it occurs. Valley below Casrouge (tv.). 
In four or five different places at St. Saviour’s. Near King’s Mills. 
In a farmyard at Lower Hubits. West side of St. Andrew’s Church- 
yard. A specimen in Gosselin’s herbarium is labelled: ‘Weed in 
my garden at Glateney, and in an orchard belonging to the Sieur 
Hocquard near the Vale Mill, and in a lane behind Mr. Carey’s. 
garden-house at the Beauregard.’ 
Formerly much cultivated for medicinal purposes, but a trouble- 
some weed in gardens, and extremely difficult to eradicate; hence 
called in Ireland the Farmer’s Plague. Gerarde says that ‘the roots 
stamped and laid upon members that are troubled or vexed with the 
gout, swageth the paine, and taketh away the swelling and inflamma- 
tion thereof.’ 
