180 GUERNSEY. 
earliest to investigate the lichen-flora of this island. I possess a 
specimen of the plant gathered in June 1853 by Dr. Boswell 
Syme at Vazon Bay: and in £xg/. Bot., ed. 3, he says that Aliium 
triquetrum is ‘apparently confined to the island of Guernsey, where 
jit is said to be not uncommon in damp, shady situations in the 
parishes of Catel, Forest, and St. Martin’s ;—the only place where I 
observed it in the island was in a hedge at the north end of Vazon 
Bay.’ In 1865, when Bentham’s Handbook of the British Flora was 
published, the plant was ‘said to be abundant in hedges all over the 
island of Guernsey.’ So that we have here an instance of the 
remarkably rapid spread of a plant which is not an agrarian weed. 
How or from whence A//ium triquetrum came into the island I do 
not know: perhaps it was originally a garden outcast. Bentham 
says it is a Mediterranean species, ‘unknown in France, except 
the extreme south.’ 
Endymion nutans, Dum. Wild Hyacinth. Blue Bell. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common throughout the island. White flowers occur in 
several places, and I have seen, though very rarely, pale pink or 
flesh-coloured ones. A form with very long leafy bracts occurs rather 
commonly on the islet of Burhou, near Alderney. 
Known in the Guernsey patois by the name of Cénez/les, a word 
corresponding to the local terms, Crowdells and Crowflower, applied 
to it in different parts of England, the French word cornezlle signi- 
fying a crow. But the precise connexion between the bird and the 
flower is not at all obvious. Shakespeare calls it Crowflower in 
Hamlet, iv. 7, and ‘azured harebell’ in Cymbeline, iv. 2. In 
Lancashire it is called by the pretty name of Azng o’ Bells, from the 
resemblance of the blossom to an ancient musical instrument, which 
consisted of a number of tuned bells hung on an arched support, 
and struck with a hammer. The English Blue Bell is the present 
species, but the Blue Bell of Scotland is a totally different flower, 
which we commonly call the Hairbell (Campanula rotundifolia), 
a plant unknown in these islands, although generally distributed and 
quite common in Normandy. 
JUNCACEAE. 
Juncus maritimus, Sm. Lesser Sea Rush. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Local and rare. In several places about Cobo and Grandes 
Rocques. South side of Bordeaux Harbour. Base of cliffs at 
Petit Port. Shore near Bec du Nez, and between there and 
Fermain Bay. Base of the cliffs west of Petit Bot Bay (Andrews). 
This species is not mentioned in Gosselin’s list, but there are 
specimens in his herbarium misnamed /. sguarrosus. 
