FLOWERING PLANTS. 153 
Shakespeare mentions this flower in many passages, but nowhere 
more beautifully than in Cymbeline, ii. 2, where the ‘mole cinque- 
spotted ’ is likened to ‘the crimson drops ’’ the bottom of a cowslip.’ 
Lysimachia Nummularia, L. Creeping Lovsestrife. 
Alien. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare. Lane behind Friquet Chapel, plentiful in one spot, 
where it has been known, I am told, for at least twenty years. Ina 
meadow between Grande Mare and Vazon, east of, and adjoining, 
the stream. Certainly in this island an escape from gardens, where 
it is often grown. A common name of this plant is Woneywort. 
(Lysimachia nemorum, L., the Yellow Pimpernel, occurs in 
Sark, but not elsewhere within this area.) 
Glaux maritima, L. Black Saltwort. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common in-brackish marshes on the north and north-west coast 
from Rocquaine to the Vale; and at Lihou Island. Rarely among 
rocks at the foot of the cliffs in the south, as at Petit Port. 
Anagallis arvensis, L. Scarlet Pimperned. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common. The form with salmon-coloured flowers is 
frequent, especially near the sea: plants with pale pink or flesh- 
coloured flowers (var. carnea, Schrank.) also occur, but less 
commonly. I have sometimes seen plants having all the flowers 
sexpartite. Var. caerulea, Sm. Blue Pimpernel. Recorded in 
fl. Sarn., on the authority of H. O. Carré, as found in a hedge 
behind Ville au Roi: Mr. Derrick has met with a blue Pimpernel 
two or three times: Miss Dawber found it at Pleinmont, and Miss 
Agnew in a garden at Hauteville. But I am not sure that the true 
plant (having petals destitute of cilia) occurs in Guernsey. In July 
1893 I gathered on the roadside at St. Andrews, near the Naftiaux 
Chapel, two plants of the blue-flowered form, which had the 
denticulate petals adl/ fringed with cilia, exactly as in the common 
red form, and the capsules had only five striae; in fact, the plants 
were in no way distinguishable from the Scarlet Pimpernel, except 
that the flowers were a deep violet blue. Borrer thought that there 
might be two species, or sub-species, each varying with blue and 
red flowers; and Mr. Townsend notes (7/7. Hants, p. 278) that the 
cultivated plant has been seen ‘bearing blue and flesh-coloured 
flowers on the same stem.’ In the island of Jethou I have seen the 
blue Pimpernel growing plentifully, in company with the common 
red form, and among them a sprinkling of the very rare variety 
having pure white flowers. 
Called in the Guernsey patois Pimprenelle, a name which is 
