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applied in Normandy to Poterium Sanguisorba, whilst the present 
species shares with Ste//arta media the name of Mouron. The 
extreme sensitiveness of the flowers to a change of weather, which 
causes them to close their petals on the approach of rain, has earned 
for this little plant the almost universal name of oor Man’s 
or Shepherd’s Weather-glass. 
Anagallis tenella, L. Bog Pimpernel. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common throughout the island on the banks of rivulets and in 
wet, marshy places. 
Centunculus minimus, L. Small Chaffweed. 
Native. First record: Babington, 18309. 
Not rare, but extremely liable to be overlooked owing to its 
minute size. Abundant in hollows all over Fort Doyle headland, 
towards Fort Le Marchant, and in different parts of Lancresse 
Common. Also at L’Islet and Mont Cuet. Plentiful in cart-ruts 
and hollows on Cobo Castle hill. Sparingly on the wet roadside 
in Petit Bot Valley. Mr. Andrews has found specimens nearly 
three inches long in an old quarry at La Rochelle, Lancresse. In 
the south of England as well as in these islands I have almost in- 
variably found Centunculus associated with Radiola. 
Samolus Valerandi, L. Water Pimpernel. Brookweed. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Frequent in wet places in all districts, in the interior as well as 
on the coast : occurs in all the cliff valleys. Occasionally found on 
sea rocks just above high-water mark. On the roadside at Hougue 
du Pommier (v1.). I have seen plants very nearly three feet high, 
growing among bushes. 
The word weed, now commonly restricted to any troublesome 
or unprofitable plant which grows where it is not wanted, was 
formerly applied indiscriminately to all kinds of smaller vegetation. 
The word also signified wearing apparel, and is so used by the old 
poets and by Shakespeare in many passages, as in the concluding 
scene in Zwelfth Night. In this sense it has become obsolete, 
except to designate the mourning apparel of a widow. 
PLUMBAGINACEAE. 
*Statice Limonium, L. Common Sea Lavender. 
Extinct. 
This species is mentioned in Gosselin’s list, and specimens from 
the Braye du Vale are preserved in his herbarium. Sixty years ago 
Babington found it in the same locality. No doubt it occurred 
