46 BOTANICAL SKETCHES. [February, 



be kind enough to inform me ? " she will not only answer him 

 readily, but will show a willingness to give every information in 

 her power. By the help of such trifling civilities, any one who 

 has the least tact, may get on very well with the men and 

 maidens, but he will have a more difficult task with the matrons; 

 many of them in the remoter parts of the island, when spoken 

 to, will shake their heads, and pretend ignorance of the English 

 language, or if a tourist goes to a house, there are few who will 

 answer his knock at the door. 



So much for the manners of the natives of the Channel Is- 

 lands, for the same remarks are equally applicable to Guernsey 

 as to Jersey. I Avill now let the readers of the ' Phy tologist ' 

 know what plants I found. 



In waste ground between the town and the hill, I observed . 

 Matricaria Chamomilla and Malva sylvestris, with a very pro- 

 cumbent habit, and with a dark patch at the base of the leaf, 

 which covered about one-third of the surface. All the plants 

 which I saw were alike. On the hill Erodium cicutarium, with 

 a white flower ; Dianthus prolifer, Echium violaceum, SciUa au- 

 tumnalis, Hieracium peleterianum, and a very dwarf variety of 

 Plantago lanceolata. There was also a great quantity of Trifo- 

 lium arvense, certainly not a rare plant, but a very pretty one. 



I descended, and took a course between the bay and the road, 

 and observed Plantago maritima, Eryngium maritimum, Mat- 

 thiola sinuata, Coronopus didyma, Artemisia Absinthium, A. vul- 

 gare, Lamium incisum, Erodium moschatum, and Armeria mari- 

 tima. I next reached St. Aubin's, where I breakfasted, and 

 turning to the right-hand and then to th© left, soon reached the 

 open country, where I observed Erucastrum incanum, Erigeron 

 acre, Armeria plaiitaginea, and Eryngium campesire. 



I took a round towards the Barracks, and afterwards went to 

 St. Peter's, and returned towards St. Aubin's by another route, 

 and found upon some marshy ground Ranunculus ophioglossifolius, 

 R. Lingua, R. Flammula, Wahlenbergia hederacea, and Bartsia 

 viscosa ; after which I examined two small valleys, but found 

 nothing worth relating. The Ferns were of the most common 

 kinds, and the same kinds which I had seen the day previous. 



It may be remarked that the indigenous herbaceous plants of 

 the island are more numerous than in England, considering the 

 small area over which they are distributed, and that they are 



