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adjoining sandy fields. ee in Gosselin’s herbarium were 
found ‘on a wall of the garden of the Vrangue, and in the fields 
east of the house of the Mare de Carteret.’ 
Erigeron mucronatum, DC. 
Alien. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
A Mexican plant, which has become thoroughly established on 
old walls in many parts of the town and suburbs. Abundant in 
Vauvert, and in the cross-lane between Victoria Road and Queen’s 
Road. Carrefour au Liévre, and just below on the wall over the 
boundary stream. Wall-tops at Hauteville and George Road, and 
below Swissville, Rohais. Wall of farm at Les Mauxmarquis in 
1898 (Andrews). I have not been able to discover how or when 
this plant was introduced into the island, but it has been known 
here for at least thirty years. It flowers plentifully all through the 
summer and autumn, and I have seen it in blossom as late as the 
middle of December. ‘The plant is not conspicuous, and the flowers 
attract no attention, being very like daisies. 
Bellis perennis, L. Daisy. ~ 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common everywhere. 
Called in the patois Berdiette, or phonetically Berbz-yette, the 
diminutive of der6z (French 6red7s), possibly from the childish fancy 
that daisies resemble little sheep in the grass. In Normandy they are 
called Paguerettes, or Paguettes, and in France generally Alarguerites, 
a name only applied in Guernsey to the Oxeye. In the north of 
England there is a saying that ‘ Spring has not arrived until you can 
set your foot on twelve daisies.’ Its old English name, daveseyghe, 
apparently alludes to the opening and closing of the flowers with 
the daylight. Chaucer calls it— 
‘The Daisie, or else the Eye of Day, 
The Empresse and Flowre of flowres all.’ 
Inula Helenium, L. Elecampane. 
Alien. First record : Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare. In 1891 I found this plant growing in some quantity 
and flowering freely at the back of an ancient farmhouse between 
Les Goubais and Rocque Maingy, at the Vale. The farm people 
told me the plant had grown there ever since they could remember. 
I have seen the plant, without flowers, near St. Peter’s Arsenal, and 
(evidently planted) at Les Marchais (v1. ). The medicinal virtues of 
this plant were celebrated by the monkish herbalists in the line, 
“Enula campana reddit praecordia sana,’ and the name Elecampane 
is a corruption of the two first words. 
Inula Conyza, DC. Ploughman’s Spikenard. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. Ona walltop on the high road at St. Martin’s a little 
