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form, with pubescent leaves, Penal, Kee is much _ less 
frequent. I have met with it at Les Mourants (viu.), at Les 
Annevilles (vi.), and on Cobo Castle Hill. Probably it is generally 
‘distributed. 
Heracleum Sphondylium, L. Hogweed. Cow Parsnip. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common. Unquestionably the most abundant of all the 
Umbelliferae in the island. 
The patois name is Cazsse, a word closely allied to Cashes, 
Kecksies, and Kex, which in various parts of England designate the 
dry, hollow stems of this and other umbelliferous plants. Shake- 
speare speaks of ‘hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,’ in 
Fflenry V.,v. 2. The French name is 4ranc-ursine. In the old 
‘days of the flint and tinder-box, the country people in Guernsey 
manufactured their own matches out of the dry stems of Hogweed, 
slit in narrow slips and dipped in sulphur. In my childhood I have 
myself seen such matches used. 
Daucus Carota, L. Wild Carrot. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common inland; but I am not sure that exactly the 
typical form occurs: the plant, say, of the Midland counties. 
Var. gummifer, Lam. 0D. maritimus, With. First record 
(as a species): Babington, 1839. Very common all round the 
‘coast, and distinct enough when growing in rock crevices on the 
seashore, but away from the sea becoming connected with the type 
‘by intermediates, which it is not easy to assign to either. Watson 
says (Compend. Cyb. Brit., p. 520) that seeds of this form brought 
by him from Jersey, and sown in a Surrey garden, produced 
D. Carota only. Under the names of D. intermedius and D. Mas- 
clefit, Corbiere describes two forms which on the coast of Normandy 
connect the present variety with the type. Conf. Lloyd, /7/. de 
2’ Ouest, ed. 3, p. 134; Townsend, 7/7. Hants, p. 153; eas. 
Nouv. Fi. LVorm., p. 263. 
This is the original stock of our garden Carrot, which was first 
generally cultivated in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
The name seems to have reference to the colour of the root, being 
derived from the Celtic word cary, which means red. 
Caucalis daucoides, L. Small Bur-parsley. 
Casual. First found: Miss Agnew, 1900. 
Several plants were discovered in an old, neglected garden at 
Hauteville during the summer of 1900, by Miss B. Agnew. 
Caucalis latifolia, L. Great Bur-parsley. 
Casual. First found: Miss Agnew, 1898. 
Very rare. One specimen in Rocquaine Bay in 1898; several in 
an old garden at Hauteville in 1900 (Miss B. Agnew). 
