118 GUERMNSE Y. 
Arguillers (1x.). Fields at Pont Vaillant. Babington found in the 
marshes behind Ivy Castle a plant which in 47. Sarvn. he separates 
from this under the name of Senecio erraticus, Bert., and remarks. 
that it ‘differs from the true S. aguaticus, Sm. Huds., in several 
particulars. .... It is found in various parts of England.’ Hooker 
says S. erraticus, Bert., is a large state of S. aguaticus. 
(Senecio paludosus, L., is recorded for Guernsey in 77. Sarn. 
on the authority of Prof. La Gasca. Certainly an error. La Gasca 
published a list of Jersey (not Guernsey) plants in 1839, and his 
name is quoted frequently for that island in AZ, Savn.) 
(Calendula arvensis, L. Wild Marigold. In the Report of the 
Watson Botanical Exchange Club for 1890-91 the following note 
occurs :— ‘Calendula arvensis, L. (?) St. Sampson’s, Guernsey, 
247 May, 1890. M. Dawber. Correct: A. Bennett.’ I was 
botanising with Miss Dawber when this plant was gathered. It 
grew on a rubbish heap by the Tramway Shed between Spur Point 
and Mont Crevelt: there was plenty, and we each took specimens. 
But I distinctly remember satisfying myself that we had found, not 
C. arvensis but C. officinalis, the common kitchen Marigold, which 
is abundantly cultivated in the island for culinary purposes. And 
I also remember expressing my surprise to Miss Dawber when I 
learnt that it had been passed as arvevsis.) 
*Bidens tripartita, L. Trifid-leaved Bur Marigold. 
Extinct. 
The drainage of large tracts of marshy ground during the early 
part of the century accounts for the loss of this and several other 
plants, but we have evidence of the former occurrence of this species 
by the preservation in Gosselin’s old herbarium of a specimen 
labelled ‘In a small pond near Abraham Robert’s house in the 
lower part of the Catel.’ This plant was perhaps already extinct when 
the #7. Sarn. was compiled. 
Carlina vulgaris, L. Carline Thistle. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. Lancresse Common, towards Fort Le Marchant, plentiful. 
Cliffs near Moulin Huet and towards Petit Port, sparingly. Hill by 
the Trinity signal post at Rocquaine. 
This plant was named after the Emperor Charlemagne, whose 
army, tradition says, was miraculously cured by its agency of a 
horrible pestilence which broke out during one of his wars. 
Arctium minus, Schk. Lesser Burdock. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Generally distributed, and frequent in waste corners throughout 
the island. 
