146 GUERNSEY. 
St. Peter’s Rectory in a corn-field. Field near Les Massis (vii.). 
Roadside near Hougue Fouque, a few plants in 1893. Field 
between Forest Church and Petit Bot in 1900 (Andrews). Specimens 
in Gosselin’s herbarium are labelled ‘at lower end of ropewalk at the 
Bouet, and near Plaisance.’ 
Mentha Pulegium, L. Pennyroyad. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare. The only locality known for this species is on the 
western side of Lancresse Common, where it grows plentifully all 
round a small pool: the plants are dwarf. Sixty years ago, according 
to FY. Sarn., it grew at the Braye du Vale and at Paradis. 
This plant was supposed by the Romans to drive away fleas, 
whence it was called Pulegium, from the word pu/ex, under which 
name we find it mentioned by Pliny. 
Lycopus europaeus, L. Gipsywort. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. Grande Mare. Marshes by Ivy Castle. Marshy meadows 
at Claire Mare, Lerée. Old millpond near St. Andrew’s Church. 
Wet field at Cobo. Petit Bot Bay, at the mouth of the stream 
in 1894. 
This plant, which yields a good black dye, is called Gipsywort, 
according to Lyte, ‘bycause the rogues and runagates which call 
themselves Egyptians do colour themselves black with this herbe.’ 
Salvia Verbenaca, L. Wild Sage. Clary. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Frequent in the low sandy districts of the north and north-west : 
rare in the south. Petit Bot. Moulin Huet. Abundant in 
Alderney. Var. clandestina, L. Dr. Boswell says in Ezg/. Bot, 
ed. 3, that all the Cornish specimens he has seen, as also a plant 
from the Vale Church, Guernsey, must be referred to S. Verbenaca, 
but that true clandestina is to be found in Borrer’s herbarium at 
Kew, labelled ‘Guernsey’ in Borrer’s own handwriting. In 1890 I 
found at Vazon Bay on the sand-hills a sprinkling of plants differing 
from the type, and agreeing in their extreme forms with the description 
of clandestina, though connected by intermediates; and on submitting 
a specimen to Mr. Arthur Bennett he pronounced it clandestina, No 
locality is specified for it in 42% Sarz., and both in that work and in 
the AZanua/ it ranks as a distinct species. 
The seeds of this plant when moistened produce a large quantity 
of mucilage, and this envelopes any particles of dust that may be in 
the eye; hence its common English name C/ary. It is the Wild 
Clairie of Gerarde, who says: ‘The seede, put whole into the eies, 
clenseth and purgeth them exceedingly from waterish humours, 
rednesse, inflammation, and divers other maladies.’ 
