FLOWERING PLANTS. roe 
Babington remarks in #2. Sarn., ‘Spikes 1—3, very variable in 
length: in some Guernsey specimens they exceed a quarter of an 
inch, and in that state the plant might easily be taken for a dif- 
ferent species.’ I have not met with any examples at all answering 
to this description. 
(Blysmus compressus, Panz., is given in Gosselin’s list, and it is: 
quite possible that the plant occurred in Guernsey a century ago: 
but we have no later evidence, and at the present day no trace of it 
is to be found.) 
Eriophorum polystachion, L. Cotton Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Local and rare. Grande Mare, still plentiful, but, in common 
with several other locally rare plants, in danger of being lost ere long 
through the draining of the marsh. In some quantity in a boggy 
piece of ground at the eastern end of Lancresse. 
Carex pulicaris, L. Flea Sedge. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very rare. Grande Mare, plentiful in some parts of the marsh. 
One of the most easily recognised of our Carices. 
Carex arenaria, L. Sea Sedge. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common on the sandy shores of the north and north-west : 
occasionally found in hedges some way inland. 
Carex vulpina, L. Great Sedge. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common in all parts of the island. This is the most frequent 
and widely distributed of the Guernsey Carices, but it is seldom 
found in any quantity. 
Carex muricata, L. Great Prickly Sedge. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common throughout the island, being second only to C. vulpina 
in point of frequency and general distribution. Gosselin gives this 
name in his list, but in his herbarium specimens of the plant are 
labelled Carex spicata. 
Carex divulsa, Good. Grey Sedge. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare. A few plants in a hedge in Foote’s Lane, Lower 
Rohais, during the summer of 1891. 
Carex paniculata, L. Great Panicled Sedge. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. Cliff streamlet near Petit Bot. Valley below Les. 
