LLOWERING PLANTS. 151 
sea wall. Grand Havre. Quarry heap by the Vale Castle. Babington 
observes in a note in #7. Sarn. that ‘a much more woolly variety 
(MZ. apulum, Ten.) is not uncommon in the [Channel] islands.’ 
Called in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg Moriauguemin. The 
White Horehound was highly prized by the old herbalists, and is 
still used as a remedy for coughs and other pectoral complaints. 
Teucrium Scorodonia, L. Wood Sage. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common throughout the island on bushy and stony hedgebanks, 
and in heathy places: abundant on the cliffs. 
This plant is known in the patois as Lamébratse or Ambraise, the 
local form of the French name Amdéroise, under which term it seems 
to have been known in England at one time, because Lyte, the author 
of an ancient Herbal, in 1578 says this species is ‘called in English 
Wood Sage, Wild Sage, and Ambros.’ The plant is employed in 
some places in the brewing of ale, to which it communicates a 
pleasant flavour, but makes it very dark in colour 
Teucrium Scordium, L. Water Germander. 
Native. First found: Andrews, 1900. 
Very rare. In considerable quantity in a sandy field near 
Grandes Rocques, where it was discovered by Mr. C. Andrews in 
August, 1900. There can be no doubt that the plant is truly native 
in this locality. 
Ajuga reptans, L. Bugle. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Frequent in damp pastures and moist places by roadsides, but 
less common in the north than in the hilly parts of the island : 
abundant on some parts of the cliffs. Varies in the colour of the 
flowers. 
VERBENACEAE. 
Verbena officinalis, L. Vervain. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather rare generally, but more frequent in the northern districts. 
I have noted it at different times in nearly all the parishes. 
Vervain was one of the sacred plants of the Druids, and was 
only gathered by them ‘when the Dogstar arose, from unsunned 
spots.’ From time immemorial it has been the floral symbol of 
enchantment: it was a potent ingredient in love philtres and other 
magic preparations, and Drayton speaks of it as ‘’gainst witchcraft 
much avayling.’ An allied species, the Lemon-scented Verbena 
(Aloysia citriodora), more commonly called. in Guernsey the Lemon 
Plant, is an old and general favourite, on account of its fragrant 
foliage. 
