138 GUERNSEY. 
is the same species. In the Alderney list I employ the name 
O. Millefolii to mark its distinctness from typical caerulea by the 
rounded lobes of the corolla and the longer floral bracts. 
SCROPHULARIACEAE. 
Verbascum Thapsus, I. Great Mullein. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather rare, but generally distributed throughout the island. 
Scattered plants are to be found all along the cliffs, but more 
frequently at St. Martin’s. 
The patois name is M@oleime, the same as our Mullein, or 
Molayne, as it was spelt by the old writers. The wool of the stem 
and leaves was formerly used for lamp- -wicks, and the seeds of both 
this species and V. nigrum are said to have been used by poachers 
to poison fish. 
Verbascum pulverulentum, Vill. Hoary Mullein. 
Casual. First record: Marquand, 1892. 
Very rare. I found a single specimen of this plant in 1892 in an 
old quarry at La Rochelle, Lancresse; and another in the same 
quarry the following year. 
Verbascum nigrum, L. Dark Muilein. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very rare. Field adjoining St. Andrew’s ome ard, two plants 
in 1890 (var. tomentosum, Bab.). Paradis, Vale, in 1888 (Miss M. 
Dawber). Hedge south of Caudré Mill (vi), four plants in 1899 
(Andrews). In 1838 Babington found it in St. Peter’s Churchyard. 
The var. fomentosum is not clearly. defined in these islands, speci- 
mens from Guernsey, Alderney, and Herm showing every gradation 
between it and the type. 
*Verbascum Blattaria, L. Moth Mullein. 
Extinct (?). 
Recorded for Guernsey, without locality, in #7 Savn. on the 
authority of H. O Carré. A plant was gathered near Cobo Church 
in July, 1864, by Mr. Edgar Dupuy, and is preserved in his 
herbarium. It has not been found in the island for very many 
years, and is probably extinct. 
Lyte, in 1578, writes that ‘the mothes and battes do inconti- 
nently come to this herbe, wheresoever it be strowen or layde.’ 
Verbascum virgatum, With. Largefiowered Mullein. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare. Hougue des Doreys, between Les Arguillers and 
Pleinheaume, about twenty plants on the roadside in 1891: also a 
