160 GUERNSE Y. 
Atriplex hastata, L. Halberd-leaved Orache. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Common in cultivated and waste ground, in salt marshes, and on 
the seashore. This species is the A. patula of /’. Sarn. The salt- 
marsh form is probably the var. oppositifolia, DC. 
Atriplex Babingtonii, Woods. Babington’s Orache. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1339. 
Not uncommon on the seashore, especially on the north and 
north-west coast. This is another Atriplex which was added to the 
British Flora from Guernsey specimens, the plant being originally 
described in AY. Sarn. by Babington under the name of A. vosea. 
Corbiere (Wouv. Fl. Norm.) describes three varieties found on the 
opposite shores of France: it is probable that some or all of them 
occur in this island also. Mr. Townsend mentions (42. Hampshire) 
that a specimen of this plant was found in Sandown Bay, Isle of 
Wight, measuring twenty-one feet in circumference. 
Atriplex farinosa, Dum. frosted Sea Orache. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Common on the sandy shores of the low-lying districts, less so in 
the south. This species is the A. daciniata of Fl. Sara. 
Obione portulacoides, Mog. Purslane Orache. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
I found this plant at Lerée Bay in 1889, and for several years 
this was the only station known for it in the island. In 1894 Rev. 
R. H. Tourtel, Rector of Torteval, sent me for identification some 
specimens he had collected at the base of the cliffs at Les Thielles : 
and in 1898 and 1899 Mr. Cecil Andrews discovered that this plant 
is generally distributed and locally abundant all along the south coast, 
from Petit Port westwards, growing on the lower parts of the cliffs 
where the soil is rubbly, and mostly in places difficult to reach 
without a good deal of climbing. In F/. Sarn. it is recorded for 
Moulin Huet Bay, on the authority of W. Christy. 
POLYGONACEAE. 
Rumex conglomeratus, Murr. Sharp Dock. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common throughout the island in marshy ground, waste places, 
and roadsides. Specimens in Gosselin’s herbarium show that this is 
his Rumex paludosus, Marsh Dock; and very probably it is also 
what he named in his list #. acutus, Sharp-pointed Dock. 
Rumex rupestris, Le Gall. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Rare. _ At the foot of the cliff at Grand Port, on the south side 
of Rocquaine, in some quantity. 
