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madness. Grindon (Shakespeare Flora, 1883) says hebenon ‘is a 
varied form, not of hexane or, as some suppose, of edony, but of the 
name by which the Yew is known in at least five of the Gothic 
languages, the name which appears in Marlowe, Spenser, and other 
writers of the Elizabethan era as /edon.’ Britten and Holland (Dicz. 
Engl. Pl. Names, 1886) assert that ‘it is almost certain that the 
hebenon of Shakespeare was Diospyros Ebenum, lL.’ 
Lycium barbarum, L. Tea Plant. Barbary Box thorn. 
Alien. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare, and always a garden escape in this island. Corner 
between the Vale Church and Grand Havre. St. Magloire (1x.) and 
near Paradis. Near La Moye (1x.). This plant, a native of Africa, 
is thoroughly naturalised in Alderney, and is quite common, often 
forming thick hedges at a distance from houses, and growing in 
large bushes in spots where it could hardly have been intentionally 
planted. 
Datura Stramonium, L. Thorn Apple. 
Casual. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very rare. Found in cultivated ground near Lancresse Lodge 
in 1895 by Mr. J. S Hocart, who afterwards traced the plant to the 
site of the ancient Priory of St. Michael, at the Vale. In 1899 Mr. 
H. Le Lacheur found a specimen at St. Saviour’s; and in 1900 two 
or three plants appeared in a waste corner of Mr. Luff’s garden at 
Mount Pleasant, Burnt Lane. 
The Guernsey name, according to Mr. Hocart, is Pommuer du 
DPiable, or Devil’s Apple-tree. All parts of the plant are poisonous. 
but the fruit is considered the most noxious. The leaves and 
stems, dried and smoked like tobacco, ate a well-known remecy for 
asthma. 
OROBANCHACEAE. 
Orobanche Hederae, Duby. Loy Broomrape. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Frequent throughout the island: more common in the northern 
parts. Often found in great plenty at the foot of ivy-covered walis and 
stone hedges. In 1889 a fine specimen, with the base of attachment 
exposed, grew on the ivy on the north wall of St. Martin’s Church- 
yard, at a height of about eight feet from the ground, and the dried 
stem remained zz sztz for two or three years. Jn the hot, dry summer 
of 1893 the flowers were often of a peculiar pale yellowish colour, 
or almost white. 
(Orobanche Rapum, Thuill., occurs in Alderney, and O. rubra, 
Sm., in Sark. The former is mentioned in Gosselin’s list, but there 
is nothing to show that it ever grew in Guernsey.) 
