FLOWERING PLANTS. 107 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 
Sambucus Ebulus, L. Dwarf Elder. Danewort. 
Denizen. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare: plentiful where it occurs. On a hedge and in the field 
adjoining at La Tourelle (vi.). Bordering the roadside a little to 
the south of Le Gélé (vui.). Still flourishes in the old station re- 
corded by H. O. Carré to the north of Paradis. On the cliffs 
among bracken about half way between Moulin Huet and Saints 
Bay, covering a space a dozen yards square. In Gosselin’s her- 
barium there is a specimen labelled ‘Near La Maison au Comte 
to the E. at the Clos du Vale. By the side of a hedge on the road 
between the watch-house at the Catel and Albec.’ The former 
locality may possibly be the Paradis station: but in the second 
locality the plant is certainly now extinct. 
The Dwarf Elder is known in Normandy under the name of 
Yeble. In Norfolk it is believed to have been brought over by the 
Danes and planted on the battlefields and graves of their country- 
men. The Welsh name is Plant of the Blood of Man. 
Sambucus nigra, L. Common Elder. 
Native. First record : Gosselin, 1815. 
Common in all parts of the island. 
The patois name is Sewe as in Normandy: the French name is 
Sureau. The common belief that lightning never strikes an Elder- 
tree perhaps accounts for its being so frequently found close to 
houses and cottages. In Wiltshire the people tell you that an elder- 
wood stake will last in the ground longer than an iron bar of the 
same size. 
Lonicera Periclymenum, L. Floneysuckle. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common in all districts. In 1894 I found a bush at the Vale 
‘still in flower in the month of December. 
The patois name Swchets, derived from the verb swchier (French 
sucer) to suck, is very similar to the Normandy name Swce¢, both 
terms conveying the same idea as the word Honeysuckle. In 
France the plant is generally called Chévrefeuille. It is the ‘wood- 
bine’ of the poets, especially those later than Shakespeare, and the 
“twisted eglantine’ of Milton. 
RUBIACEAE. 
Sherardia arvensis, L. Field Madder. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common in all parts on dry banks, and as a weed in 
