126 GUERNSE Y. 
CAMPANULACEAE. 
Jasione montana, L. Sheep’ s-bit. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common on dry banks and sandy waste spots: abundant 
on the cliffs. Occasionally with nearly white flowers. 
(Wahlenbergia hederacea, Reich., the Ivy-leaved Bell-flower, is 
marked for Guernsey in the list in Ansted’s Channel Islands. 
Certainly an error.) 
Trachelium coeruleum, L. Blue Throatwort. 
Alien. First found: Brown, 1892. 
Very rare. A Mediterranean plant first recorded for Guernsey 
in Journ. Lot., 1892, p. 346, by Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, who received 
specimens from Mr. A. Buchanan Brown. The plant was described. 
as ‘abundant at the outskirts of St. Peter’s-Port, in one or two 
contiguous places, on old, high, and somewhat ruinous walls.’ Mr. 
Brown counted at least 150 blooms on August 16th, and had known 
the plant to exist in the same profusion for quite sixteen years. In 
1893 Messrs. Derrick and Royle found the plant growing on the 
wall of Candie Cemetery Lane, and in 1900 I counted quite a 
hundred plants upon that wall. I do not know whether this is 
Mr. Brown’s station ; if not, I strongly suspect it to be in enclosed 
private grounds. 
ERICACEAE. 
Calluna vulgaris, Salisb. Heather. Ling. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common on the cliffs: less so on the shore of the 
lowlands. I have found it still flowering in December. 
It is not generally known that briar pipes are manufactured out 
of the root of a species of Heather which grows in profusion on the 
rocky slopes of the Tuscan Alps in North Italy, and in Corsica. 
The word érviar (more correctly written d7er) is a corruption 
or rather an anglicised form of the French word éruyére, which 
signifies heath. 
Erica cinerea, L. Fine-leaved Heath. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common on the cliffs, and in suitable places all round the 
north and north-west coast. Occasionally on banks and hedges in 
the interior of the island. Pure white flowers have been found at 
Cobo. In mild seasons this plant continues to blossom all through 
the winter months. 
