FLOWERING PLANTS. 197” 
such as usually grows upon a Jens, z.e., a common or other neglected 
broken ground: a word often used in that sense in old English 
poetry. 
Agrostis vulgaris, With. Common Bent Grass. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Common throughout the island. The var. pumila, L. is noted 
in F/. Sarn. as occurring at Herm. According to Corbiere (/Vowv. 
Fl. Norm.) this variety is merely a dwarf form, having the flowers 
infested with a micro-fungus (Z7//etza sphaerococca). 
Agrostis alba, L. Marsh Bent Grass. Fiorin. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Common in all parts on borders of ditches and grassy pools, and 
in damp places by roadsides. The var. stolontfera, L. is common 
on the coast, and the more or less glaucous form occurring on 
sandy shores is probably the var. marttima, Lam. In Gosselin’s 
herbarium a large form of this species is labelled Agrostis sylvatica, 
and a small form A7ra cristata: 1 each case without locality. 
Lagurus ovatus, L. Hare’s-tail Grass. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common all along the sandy shores of the north and north-west. 
Often very small, and as a rule only a few inches high, but in sandy 
fields, under favourable conditions, attaining the height of a foot or 
more. Many attempts have been made from time to time to 
introduce this beautiful grass into Jersey. In Journ. Bot., 1893, 
p. 22, Mr. G. C. Druce records that he found a good patch of it 
growing on the sands near St. Ouen’s Bay in 1877, but subsequently 
ascertained that the seed had been intentionally sown there the 
previous year. Doubtless in the course of time it will become 
naturalised in Jersey; and therefore, to prevent confusion in the 
future, it may be well to state that as an indigenous plant Lagurus 
ovatus is confined to Guernsey, not only among the Channel Islands, 
but in the United Kingdom. In Normandy it is found only in the 
Department of La Manche, where it is very rare. 
Polypogon monspeliensis, Desf. Annual Beard Grass. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare. I found two roots on the quarry heap near the Vale 
Castle in 1889, but it has not been seen since. Mr. G. C. Druce 
reported it as very abundant by the side of St. Sampson’s saltpans in 
June 1877: and Miss M. Dawber gathered it in the saltpans at St. 
Sampson’s in 1886. Probably this grass was not uncommon in 
former times (Babington found it in the Braye du Vale) when salt 
marshes abounded from St. Sampson’s Harbour to Grand Havre, 
but at the present day it seems to be almost extinct. 
