18 GUERNSEY. 
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Triglochin maritimum, L. Seaside Arrowgrass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Rare. Brackish pool at Pulias, in good quantity. Abundant in 
the marshes by the Vale pond. 
Triglochin palustre, L. Marsh Arrowgrass. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. Grande Mare, in the central part of the main marsh. 
Sparingly among Juncus acutus near Houmet, and also sparingly 
near the Vale pond (Andrews). There are specimens in Gosselin’s 
herbarium. This species is stated in FZ. Sarn. to be ‘common in 
Guernsey,’ but, had it been so sixty years ago, we ought to find 
more traces of it at the present day. 
ASPARAGACEAE. 
Asparagus officinalis, L. Wild Asparagus. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Very rare. Two plants on the sand-hills by Rousse Tower. Two 
on the sand-hills between Vazon and Albecq in 1893. One in 1894 
in a sandy field near Rousse Tower. Near the Fort in Rocquaine 
Bay in 1898 (Miss B. Agnew). All these specimens were taken to 
belong to the cultivated form. But in the autumn of 1go00 I received 
a fresh specimen of the true wild maritime form, 4. prostratus, 
Dum., gathered near the sea at Pleinmont Point by Mr. H. Le 
Lacheur, who reported that he had seen about a hundred plants 
growing in that spot. In 7. Sarn. A. officinalis is recorded as found 
at Pleinmont by W. C. Trevelyan, but the plant had not been seen 
there again (the spot being at the foot of the cliffs and difficult of 
access) until it was rediscovered by Mr. Le Lacheur more than sixty 
years afterwards. In Gosselin’s herbarium there are two very small 
specimens labelled ‘In a field at the Grand-Mills [Grandes-Mielles] 
called La Rocque-hyvreuse.’ 
Ruscus aculeatus, L. Butcher's Broom. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Frequent on the cliffs, especially at St. Martin’s ; rare elsewhere, 
though occurring in all parts of the island. The true leaves of this 
plant are minute and inconspicuous except on the young shoots. 
The apparent leaves are really flattened branches termed cladodes 
or phylloclades, bearing on the underside the tiny lilac flowers and 
che beautiful scarlet berries. 
LILIACEAE. 
Ornithogalum umbellatum, L. Star of Bethlehem. 
Alien. First record : Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare. One root in the middle of a marshy field at Cobo in 
