FLOWERING PLANTS. 123 
Leontodon autumnale, L. Autumnal Hawkbit. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Generally distributed and rather common in pastures, and on 
commons and waste ground. 
Tragopogon porrifolius, L. Purple Goat’s-beard. Salsify. 
Casual. First found: Marquand, 1900. 
One plant well in flower in a potato-field on the road from St. 
Sampson’s Bridge to Bordeaux. This species is naturalised in 
Alderney. 
(Tragopogon minor, Fr., Yellow Goat’s-beard, occurs in Alderney.) 
(Picris hieracioides, L., Hawkweed Oxtongue, is mentioned in 
Gosselin’s list, but that probably refers to its occurrence in Herm, 
where it is scarce, or else in Alderney, where the plant is locally 
plentiful. There is no evidence that it ever grew in Guernsey.) 
Helminthia echioides, Gaert. Bristly Ox-tongue. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Local and rare. Coast by the Vale Castle, in plenty. Lane 
behind Hougue du Pommier (vui1.). Near the Vale Road Nurseries. 
Grosse Hougue (x.), plentiful in one place. 
(Lactuca virosa, L., the Strong-scented Lettuce, is mentioned in 
Gesselin’s list, but a specimen so named in his herbarium is a 
luxuriant form of Sonchus asper. It is possible, however, that the 
true plant has occurred in the isl.:nd, as I find in an annotated copy 
of the Hlora Sarnica which belonged to Major H. Smith, a botanist 
residing in Guernsey about the year 1860, the following note oppo- 
site this species: ‘ Border of a field between Torteval and Pleinmont, 
and on a bank near Cambray.’ On a blank page in the same 
volume is written: ‘Lactuca virosa. I am inclined to think this 
plant is not indigenous, although Mr. Field has informed me that 
six years since he saw it growing near the place where I found it at 
Cambray.’) 
Taraxacum officinale, Wigg. Dandelion. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Generally distributed and common. Var. erythrospermum, 
Andrz. In several places on the Vale coast. Var. palustre, DC. 
Between King’s Mills and Grande Mare. Roadside, Hubits, St. 
Martin’s. Var. laevigatum, DC. Found by Babington at the 
Vale. 
This plant is called in the patois Aé/oges, the local form of the 
French ordoges, clocks, from the children’s method of telling the 
hour by blowing away 
‘What look’d a flight of fairy arrows aim’d 
All at one mark, all hitting.’ 
