? 7) GUERNSEY. 
Gnaphalium luteo-album, L. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare, except in the north, where it occurs rather frequently in 
old quarries and waste places as well as on roadsides : occasionally 
in cultivated ground. Not uncommon about L’'Islet. In 1891 I 
saw this plant in immense profusion (thousands of very fine speci- 
mens) in a cultivated field behind the Hermitage, Lancresse: the 
following year it only occurred there sparingly. On the eastern side 
of the Vale it is rare, but 1 have seen it near the Vale Castle and at 
Spur Point. Mr. Andrews found it in 1899 in a garden at Albecq. 
Gnaphalium uliginosum, L. Marsh Cudweed. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common in all parts of the island on roadsides and in 
damp corners and fields. 
Antennaria margaritacea, R.Br. Pearly Everlasting. 
Casual. First found: Miss Agnew, 1898. 
Very rare. A single specimen, probably a garden escape, was 
found in 1898, near Profond Val, St. Peter’s, by Miss B. Agnew. 
In Hooker's Student's Flora (1870) this species is erroneously stated 
to be naturalised in Guernsey. I have seen specimens from Jersey, 
but this is the only instance known to me of the occurrence of the 
plant in Guernsey. 
Achillea Millefolium, L. Yarrow. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. . 
Very common everywhere. 
Called in the patois Querpentiere, the feminine form of the word 
for carpenter, corresponding with its French appellation Herbe aux 
Charpentiers, and its old English name Carfenter-grass. Yarrow 
was highly valued in olden times as a vulnerary; and Gerarde tells 
us that with this plant Achilles cured the wounds of his soldiers. 
In Normandy it is called Hure de loup. 
Anthemis arvensis, L. Corn Chamomile. 
Colonist. First record: Babington, 1839. 
I have only met with this species in a few places in the interior 
of the island, chiefly in cultivated fields: possibly, however, it is 
really less rare than it would seem. 
Anthemis Cotula, L. Stinking Mayweed. 
Colonist. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common in cornfields and other cultivated ground in the 
south and west: apparently less so in the northern districts. 
The patois name is Mérogue, evidently another form of Amrogue, 
under which Matricaria Chamomilla is \ocally known: the names, 
howevei, are probably interchangeable, as the two plants would 
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