IIo GUERNSE Y. 
rare in England. A specimen in Gosselin’s herbarium is labelled 
Valeriana locusta, 
Valerianella dentata, Deitr. Warrow-fruited Lamb’s Lettuce. 
Casual. First found: Miss Dawber, 1888. 
Several plants sprang up as weeds in Mr. W. Dawber’s garden 
at Ruettes Brayes in 1888. This plant occurs not uncommonly in 
Normandy, and I have found it in Alderney. 
(Valerianella eriocarpa, Desy., occurs in Alderney.) 
DIPSACACEAE. 
Dipsacus sylvestris, L. Wild Teasel. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. Fermain Valley. Petit Port. Saints Bay. Le Graie (v1.). 
Friquet (vi.). Cobo. Lihou Island. Les Goubais (1x.). Near 
Vale Castle. The specimen in Gosselin’s herbarium is from Petit 
Bot Bay. 
In Normandy this plant is called Cardére and Peignes, terms. 
which, like Zease/, allude to its use or fitness for dressing wool. 
One of its oldest names was Labrum Veneris, or Venus’s Basin, from 
the hollows formed by the connate leaves being usually filled with 
water that was used to cure warts on the hands, and served as a 
beauty-wash for the face, besides being an efficacious remedy for 
bleared eyes. 
Knautia arvensis, Coult. Field Scabious. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. I have seen this plant in about a dozen localities within 
a radius of a mile and a half from Le Chéne, Forest, but beyond 
that I have only met with it in a lane near St. George (vit1.), where 
it grew sparingly. Var. integrifolia, C.and G. Ima lane to the 
south of the old Caudré Mill, at St. Peter’s, 
(Scabiosa succisa, L., the Devil’s-bit Scabious, is marked for 
Guernsey in the list in Ansted’s Channel Islands, but it is very 
doubtful whether this species ever occurred here.) 
*Scabiosa Columbaria, L. Small Scabtious. 
Extinct. 
Babington found this plant at St. Martin’s sixty years ago, but it 
must long since have become extinct. It is unknown on the French 
coast nearest to these islands, and I have no other evidence of its. 
occurrence within this area. 
