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species noted by the Rev. W. W. Newbould in 1841 and 1842. In 
these two papers 89 new species were added to Professor Babing- 
ton’s record. Twenty years later Mr. W. F. Miller, of Sidcot, 
North Somerset, spent a fortnight in the island (August 17 to 31, 
1892), and during that time was successful in adding 26 phanerogams 
to the then known flora. These additions formed the subject of a 
paper in Journ. Bot., November, 1892 (p. 347), but Mr. Miller very 
kindly handed over to me a complete catalogue of all the plants ob- 
served by him in Sark, with localities noted for the less common 
species. This was a valuable acquisition, because in the previous 
lists of Babington and Bull localities were almost entirely wanting. 
The most recent, and by far the most complete enumeration of 
Sark plants yet printed is the one drawn up by Mr. G. T. Derrick, 
of Guernsey. In his three papers published in the Zvansactions of 
the Guernsey Society of Natural Science for the years 1896, 1897, 
and 1898, Mr. Derrick records and localises from personal observa- 
tion 345 flowering plants and ferns, of which upwards of fifty had not 
previously been noted by any observer. 
In the following pages such localities and notes as are given in 
the above lists are followed by the observer’s name in brackets : in 
other cases the person’s name signifies that the plant is mentioned in 
his list, but without any particulars as to distribution: the dates of 
observation being, as already stated: Babington, 1838; Bull, 1872 
and 1874; Miller, 1892; and Derrick, 1896 to 1898. A few 
additional notes have been furnished during the last two or three 
years by my friend Mr. Cecil Andrews, M.A. 
An interesting and valuable paper by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers 
on ‘The Rubi and Rosae of the Channel Islands’ will be found in 
the Journal of Botany for March 1898 (p. 85). Out of about thirty 
distinct brambles observed in the islands by Mr. Rogers, seven were 
found in Sark, all of them being, with one exception, ‘ practically 
identical with our British forms.’ 
It is clear that the Sark flora resembles in a general way that of 
the southern or elevated portion of Guernsey, and yet there are 
some differences that deserve notice. Certain species which are 
generally diffused throughout the south of Guernsey, and may be 
described as common, are quite rare in the smaller island, and some 
appear to be absent altogether, like Medicago lupulina and 
Geranium Robertianum. So that, although the component parts of 
the flora are in a great measure the same, they are arranged, so to 
speak, in a different pattern. Further, it would seem that Sark is 
by no means so closely related to the Continental mainland as 
Guernsey is, notwithstanding its position in a direct line between 
the latter and the nearest part of France: for, out of the seventeen 
non-British plants indigenous to, or more or less established in 
Guernsey, only one species (Brassica Cheiranthus) is included in 
the Sark flora, and even this solitary exception must be either very 
