FLOWERING PLANTS. 131 
Commonly called in French Zzseron, but also known as Man- 
chettes de la Vierge, and Belle d’un jour, because the white blossoms 
last only a single day. In some parts of England these flowers are 
termed Hedge Bells, a pretty name exactly corresponding to the 
German Zaun-glocke. 
Convolvulus Soldanella, L. Sea Bindweed. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common all over the sandy shores of the north and north-west. 
The flowers only expand in fine weather, and during the early 
part of the day. The plant is known in some places by the name of 
Sea Bells. 
Cuscuta Epithymum, Murr. Lesser Dodder. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Frequent on the cliffs: more rare in other parts of the island. 
Generally parasitic on Furze, rarely on low plants. In Alderney the 
reverse is the case, and it is seldom seen on Furze. Gosselin notes 
this species under the old aggregate Hudsonian name, Cuwuscuta 
europaea. 
The Guernsey patois name, according to Métivier, is Herde 
a émeute : in Normandy it is called Cheveux St. Jean, and in other 
parts of France Zezgne. Prior says the word Dodder signifies 
bunches of knotted or entangled threads. 
(Cuscuta trifolii, Bab. I have found this species in Alderney, 
growing on Lucerne; and I have also seen there on two occasions 
a flowerless Cuscuta of a lemon-yellow colour, growing on Thyme 
and other low plants. It closely resembled a plant which my old . 
friend, W. Curnow, showed me many years ago on sand banks near 
Hayle, West Cornwall, and which both Prof. Babington and Mr. 
H. C. Watson considered to be a form of C. ¢vifolit. See note on 
the Cornish plant in Rep. Bot. Loc. Rec. Club, 1875, p. 137.) 
BORAGINACEAE. 
Cynoglossum officinale, L. FHounda’s-tongue. 
Denizen. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
_ Rare. Here and there on the coast between Grand Havre and 
Lancresse Bay. Rather plentiful in the neighbourhood of the old 
Grandes Rocques Barracks. Under a roadside wall near the 
Hermitage, Vale, in some quantity. Lihou Island. In #2. Sara. 
this plant is noted for the ‘ central parts of Guernsey,’ but no station 
is known there for it at the present day. 
Coles tells us in his Art of Simpling (1656) that this herb ‘will tye 
the Tongues of Houndes, so that they shall not bark at you, if it be 
laid under the bottom of your feet, as Miraldus writeth.’ 
