8 BAILEY, Adventitious Vegetation sf St.Anne's-ou-t/ie-Sea. 



State Agricultural College, Manhattan, No. j6, February, 

 1898). 



There are three principal stations for it on the sand- 

 hills, or the remains of the sandhills. One, where it was 

 first detected, is on the sandy flat on the north side of 

 St. Thomas's Church. In 1902 it was almost the prevail- 

 ing plant, being surpassed only by Convolvulus arvensis, 

 Linn., and Sisymbrium pannonicum, Jacq. In 1903 the 

 season was favourable for its growth, and it flowered pro- 

 fusely, without producing fruit, though diligently sought 

 for ; some of the examples, especially those at the edge 

 of St. Thomas's Road, were two feet in height. Unfor- 

 tunately, in the spring of the following year, strong and 

 long-continued sea winds led to the drifting of sand on 

 an extensive scale from an intervening sandhill ; the sand 

 was impelled up the western slope, and drifted down the 

 eastern slope, with the result that in that and succeeding 

 years the base of the old sandhill has extended eastwards 

 for nearly a hundred yards, completely burying the larger 

 portion of the patch which existed in 1902. It is only a 

 question of time how long it will remain free from further 

 drifts ; some houses built on the South Drive last year 

 check the force of the sea wind, but such houses are the 

 forerunners of others, which will ultimately destroy the 

 plant in this station. As a reminiscence of the luxurious 

 growth of this plant on this site, reference may be made 

 to the accompanying plates, VII and VIII. The drifting 

 sandhill referred to above lies to the right, but outside the 

 limits of the plates. 



The second locality is now enclosed by the fence 

 which surrounds the ground upon which St. Thomas's 

 Church is built. The patch runs half the length of the 

 wall at the rear of the dwelling house in Victoria Road, 

 which forms part of the eastern boundary of the church- 



