FLOWERING PLANTS. I41 
tongues, like humble-bees and hive-bees; whereas wasps, having 
short, broad tongues, go to the flowers in great numbers. 
Scrophularia Scorodonia, L. Balm-leaved Figwort. 
Colonist. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Generally distributed throughout the island, but rather rare, and 
found more frequently in the interior. Grows in hedge-banks and 
bushy places, and occasionally in old quarries. 
*Pedicularis palustris, L. Marsh Lousewort. 
Extinct. 
In #7. Sarn. this species is noted as having been found by 
Babington in the ‘central parts of Guernsey.’ It has been searched 
for in vain for a great many years, and I have no doubt whatever 
that it is now extinct. 
Pedicularis sylvatica, L. Common Lousewort. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common on moist heaths and in damp pastures, especially 
in the south: plentiful on the cliffs in suitable localities. 
Derives its name from fediculus, a louse, the popular belief being 
that it produces vermin in sheep; whence also its German name, 
Liuse-kraut. Gerarde says of this plant that ‘it filleth sheep and 
other cattle that feed in meadows where it groweth full of lice.’ But 
the same is said of some other marsh plants. 
Rhinanthus Crista-galli, L. Yellow Rattle. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare, but usually in abundance when growing in meadows. 
Grande Mare. Cobo. Albecq. Several parts of the Vale. Talbots 
Valley. Petit Bot Valley. 
This plant takes its English name from the rattling of the ripe 
seeds within the dry capsule, just as in Normandy it is called 
Sonnettes, or little bells. 
Eufragia viscosa, Benth. Marsh Eyebright. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Frequent in wet meadows and marshy places in all parts of the 
island, often very*plentifui in a favourable locality. 
Euphrasia officinalis, L. Lyebright. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common on dry banks and moors, and on sandy commons. 
A tall, slender form, with almost simple stems a foot or more high 
(perhaps var. gracilis, Fr.), occurs plentifully in some parts of Grande 
Mare. In Mr. Townsend’s paper on Euphrasia in Journ. Bot., 1897 
