FLOWERING PLANTS. 11¥F 
COMPOSITAE. 
Eupatorium cannabinun, L. Hemp Agrimony. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Generally distributed throughout the island, and common on the- 
banks of streamlets, ditches, and other wet places. 
An interesting incident connected with this plant is related in 
Ansted’s Channel Islands (1865), p. 177 : ‘The Hempweed or Hemp: 
Agrimony (Lupatorium cannabinum), a common plant enough, was. 
curiously recognised some time ago by some Bushmen from South 
Africa, who happened to be in Guernsey, as the material from which 
they obtain an intoxicating substance for smoking.’ 
Petasites fragrans, Presl. Sweet-scented Coltsfoot. 
Alien. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Rather rare, though found in almost all the southern districts, 
usually in the vicinity of gardens and shrubberies, where it spreads. 
rapidly, and is a troublesome weed to eradicate. 
This is one of the very few plants that only blossom in mid- 
winter ; the flowers appear in November and December, and are 
deliciously fragrant, hence the common name Wild Heliotrope, in 
France Héliotrope @hiver. The patois name is Pas d@’ane, which 
properly belongs to Zwssi/ago Farfara, but that species is too rare in 
the island to have earned for itself a local name. In some parts of 
Normandy the leaves are dried and smoked by the poor who cannot 
afford tobacco. 
Tussilago Farfara, L. Common Coltsfoot. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. Cobo Bay. Mont Crevelt. Quarry-heap by Vale Castle. 
Waste place in lane between the Upper Catel Road and Varendes. 
Specimens in Gosselin’s herbarium are labelled ‘Field east of 
Plaisance. Field above Ropewalk at Bouet. Field north-east of 
Catel Church.’ The third of these localities seems to correspond 
with my last station above noted. 
The Coltsfoot, known in France as Pas d’dne, has a very ancient 
reputation as a remedy for coughs and colds, and even now a 
decoction of the leaves in milk is used for the purpose in many 
rural districts in England. 
Aster Tripolium, L. Sea Starwort. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. Marshes close to the Vale pond, in profusion. I saw 
many scores of plants in flower there in the autumn of 1899. 
Erigeron acre, L. Blue Fleabane. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. Near Grandes Rocques, scattered over three or four 
