FLOWERING PLANTS. 177 
George, overlooking Fort Bay. One large clump in a meadow 
between Grande Mare and Vazon. In both cases certainly escapes 
from cultivation. 
Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, L. Daffodil. Lent Lily. 
Alien. First found: Derrick, 1897. — 
A few specimens of this plant, certainly escaped from cultivation, 
were found by Mr. Derrick in 1897 at Le Jardin (vu). Mr. 
Derrick informs me that what he believes to be this species used to 
grow some thirty years ago in two places in the Talbots Valley ; but 
all traces of it have long since disappeared. In 1891 I saw the 
true English Daffodil growing in a cottage garden near the King’s 
Mills, but the cottagers could not tell me where the plants originally 
came from. This species is not mentioned either by Gosselin or 
Babington, and in my opinion has no title whatever to be regarded 
as indigenous. The double-flowered Lent Lily (4. major) is 
established in a meadow in the Fauxquets Valley, below Les 
Videclins, and in pasture fields near the Catel Rectory. 
The name Daffodil is a corruption (through Affodilly as this 
flower is called by the old writers) of the Homeric Asphodel, with 
the roots of which the spirits of the dead sustained themselves. 
The plant is also commonly known as the Lent Lily, the word /en¢ 
signifying primarily the period of the year when the days begin to 
lengthen. In Normandy it is called Foirions, the name by which 
the double variety, common in cottage gardens, is known in 
Guernsey. The root, and to some extent the whole plant, is 
poisonous. 
ALISMACEAE. 
Alisma Plantago, L. Great Water Plantain. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare, except in the parishes of the Vale and St. Sampson’s, 
where’ it occurs in many places. Ditches about Grande Mare. 
Millpond at King’s Mills. Babington found this species at St. 
Martin’s, but it no longer grows there. 
This plant is said to possess an established reputation in America 
as a specific for the bite of the rattlesnake, and in the north of 
Europe the roots have for ages been a popular remedy for hydro- 
phobia. 
Alisma ranunculoides, L. Lesser Water Plantain. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. In several parts of Grande Mare. Pool by Fort Doyle. 
Marshy place between Fort Doyle and Fort Le Marchant, and in a 
pool near there. In AV. Sarn. the var. repens, Hook. (A. repens, Sm.) 
is noted as found by Babington on Lancresse Common. 
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