FLOWERING PLANTS. 147 
Salvia sylvestris, L. 
Casual. First found: Andrews, 1898. 
Very rare. Two plants of this south-European. species. were 
found in July, 1898, by Mr. C. Andrews in the Belvidere Parade 
Field at Fort George. It is not easy to say how they got there, 
as the plant is hardly ornamental enough for cultivation as a 
garden flower. 
Origanum vulgare, L. Marjoram. 
Denizen or Alien. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare, if not extinct. Babington found this plant at the 
Vale; and Mr. Derrick has told me it used to grow many years ago 
close to the farm at Les Falaises, overlooking Petit Bot, but has long 
since disappeared. In 1892, and for some years afterwards, a few 
plants were to be seen on the south wall of St. Martin’s Church- 
yard ; planted, no doubt, but perhaps brought from one of the old 
stations in this island. 
Called AMarjolaine in Normandy. The ‘swete margerome,’ as 
the old writers call it, was highly valued before the introduction of 
various foreign perfumes: and ‘swete bags’ and ‘swete washing- 
waters’ made from this plant were to be found in every druggist’s 
shop. 
Thymus Serpyllum, L. Wild Thyme. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common all round the coast. Occasionally found with 
white flowers. 
The French name of this plant is Serfolet. It is recommended 
by Linnaeus as a cure for headache and the effects of intoxication. 
Shakespeare only mentions Thyme once, in the familiar passage in 
Mids. Nights Dream, ii. 2; but his great contemporary, Bacon, 
praises it highly in his essay on Gardens. 
Calamintha Nepeta, Clairv. Lesser Calamint. 
Native (?). First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare. Route des Hougues, St. Saviours, in abundance in 
the hedge on the roadside. A few plants in a waste corner at 
Bordeaux in 1801. 
In France this plant is known by the name of Herbe aux chats, 
as in England, Catmint, because, says Gerarde, ‘cats are very much 
delighted therewith, for the smell of it is pleasant unto them.’ 
Calamintha officinalis, Moench. Common Calamtnt. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. Lane behind Les Pelleys (viul.), sparingly on a 
hedgebank in 1892. Plentiful in a field bordering that lane in 1900 
(Andrews). Noted in #7. Sarn. for Grognet, on the authority of 
H. O. Carré. Specimens in Gosselin’s herbarium (labeiled Cu/a- 
