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Phalaris minor, Retz. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Locally plentiful in sandy ground on the north-west coast: less 
common in the north. Early in the summer of 1899 I discovered 
this grass growing in cultivated fields in Alderney, and when Mr. 
C. Andrews came over I pointed out to him how it differed from P. 
canariensts. On his return to Guernsey he found that nearly all the 
plants hitherto assigned to canarzensis really belonged to the present 
species. I had remarked in my little Alora of 1891 that it (ae, 
canartensis as I supposed) ‘appears native in sandy places about 
Lerée, Perelle, and Richmond,’ and this seems to be the head- 
quarters of the plant, as it has occurred but sparingly about Pulias, 
Lancresse, and Bordeaux. That / minor is really native in 
Guernsey there can be little doubt, as shown in Mr. Andrews’ paper 
in Journ. Bot., 1900, p. 33, in which he describes and figures it as 
an addition to the British Flora. That it is not a recent introduction 
is proved by Gosselin’s herbarium, which dates from 1788 or earlier, 
in which the sheet labelled P. canariensts contains one specimen of 
that and three of P. minor. In Alderney I regard P. minor as a 
Colonist as it only grows in cultivated ground. 
Phalaris paradoxa, L. 
Casual. First found: Miss Agnew, 1900. 
One or two plants were found by Miss B. Agnew during the 
summer of 1900 in an old neglected garden at Hauteville. 
*Phalaris arundinacea, L. Ribbon Grass. 
Extinct. 
According to //7. Sarn. Babington found this grass at Grande 
Mare, together with a few plants of the var. Zzcta, L., ‘apparently 
indigenous.’ I am not aware that it has been seen again, and the 
variety is only to be found now in cottage gardens. 
Anthoxanthum odoratum, L. Sweet-scented Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common in all] parts of the island. 
Called in French Flouve odorante. This is the grass above all 
others that gives the delightful fragrance to newly-mown meadow 
hay: but it is the stems which are fragrant, and not the flowers. 
Anthoxanthum Puelii, Lec. & Lam. 
Casual. First found: Rogers, 1897. 
Very rare. Found sparingly by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers on 
Lancresse Common, near the Vale Church, in 1897. This species is 
said to be a much commoner plant on the Continent than 4. 
odoratum, and is often supplied to English farmers by German seed- 
growers as a substitute for the latter, though, being an annual, it is 
comparatively worthless. It is asserted that A. Puelt does not 
