142 GUERASEY. 
£. nemorosa is recorded as having been found by Mr. W. S. Miller, 
in 1892, near Doyle’s Monument in this island. See note under this 
genus in the Alderney Flora. 
This plant was much commended in olden times as a precious 
medicine for eye diseases and for strengthening the sight. Milton 
refers to this belief in Paradise Lost: 
‘Then purged with euphrasy and rue 
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.’ 
In certain parts of Germany the Eyebright is called AZzdchdieb or 
milk-thief, from the popular notion that cows s yield less milk when 
the plant is in flower. 
Odontites rubra, Pers. Red Bartsta. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rather common throughout the island. By far the most frequent 
form is the var. sevofina, Reich. The var. verna, Reich., I have 
found growing plentifully in Moulin Huet Valley. On the cliffs 
above the cottage at Petit Bot there is an intermediate form 
(O. longifolia, Corb.), which has the habit and leaves of sevotina, 
but the bracts longer than the flowers. In Gosselin’s herbarium 
there is a specimen of var. veyna, and another of var. Jongzfolia, in 
each case without locality. 
Sibthorpia europaea, L. Cornish Moneyuort. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Local and rare: usually plentiful where it occurs. Grows on 
damp banks by streamlets and springs, and always in sheltered, 
shady spots. Valley between St. Peter’s Arsenal and Rocquaine. 
On a high bank below Le Becquet (111.). Valley west of St. 
Saviour’s Church. Below the pond at Le Moulin (vz). Valley 
below Les Issues (vui.). Below Les Rebouquets (iv.) descending 
towards Petit Bot. _ 
*Veronica scutellata, L. Marsh Speedwell. 
Extinct. 
The record of this species in Gosselin’s list is confirmed by a 
specimen preserved in his herbarium marked ‘Grows in the 
marshes,’ meaning probably Les Marais, near Ivy Castle. There is 
no evidence of the occurrence of the plant in Babington’s time, or 
since, so that no doubt it is extinct. 
Veronica Anagallis, L. 5 Water Speedwell. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. A sprinkling of plants in a marshy meadow between 
Hougue du Pommier and Grandes Rocques. Wet corner of a field 
at Cobo, in some quantity. In Gosselin’s herbarium there is a 
specimen from Grande Mare. 
