FLOWERING PLANTS. 133 
Echium plantagineum, L. 
Casual. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare. The only specimen hitherto known to have occurred 
in this island is the one I found in 1891 on the coast west of the 
Vale Church. It is a plentiful plant in some parts of Jersey. 
Lithospermum officinale, L. Common Gromwelt. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. Lane near Grandes Rocques, in some quantity. Several 
plants in the lane on the west side of Grande Mare. Between Mare 
de Carteret and Cobo, in two or three places, a few plants in each. 
In Gosselin’s herbarium there is a specimen labelled, ‘ Hedge on 
roadside bordering on a field called Parc-a-fouaille, near la maison 
aux Goubés, belonging to Michel Le Pettevin, at the Grand-Miles.’ 
As far as I can ascertain, this locality is the same as the Grandes 
Rocques station mentioned above. 
This plant is called in French, from its shining seeds, Herbe aux 
perles, and also Grémil; the latter name being obviously another 
form of our English Gromwed//, a word said to be derived from the 
Celtic gvaun, seed, and mf/, stone: alluding to the excessive hard- 
ness of the seeds The same meaning, in a Greek form, is expressed 
in the generic name Lithospermum. 
Lithospermum arvense, L. Corn Gromwell. 
Casual. First record: Marquand. 1891. 
I found a few plants in 1890 in a cultivated field a little to the 
west of the Vale Road, near the stream. 
Myosotis repens, Don. Creeping Water Forget-me-not. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839 
Common on stream-sides in the south of the island. Marshy 
fields at Rocquaine (Andrews). Babington notes this species in 
Fl. Sarn. from his own observation, and also records JZ fa/ustris, 
With., without locality, on the authority of H. O. Carré. As there is 
no confirmatory evidence of the existence of the latter species in 
these islands, it is probable that the name was used in its old 
sense, comprehending JZ. repens. 
According to Prior, it is only since the beginning of the nine- 
teenth century that Myosotis has been called Aorget-me-not, though 
it now bears a similar name in nearly every European language. 
Before that time the name Forget-me-not was applied in France and 
the Netherlands as well as in England to Ajuga chamaepitys, and ‘ it 
is to this plant exclusively,’ says Prior, ‘that we find it assigned by 
Lyte, Lobel, Gerarde, Parkinson, and all our herbalists from the 
middle of the fifteenth century, and by all other botanical writers 
who mention the plant, inclusive of Gray in his Vatural Arrange- 
ment, published in 1821, until it was transferred with the pretty 
story of a drowned lover to that which now bears it.’ Zyosotis had 
