BOTANICAL RAMBLES IN GUERNSEY 205 
interpretation ; even were the identification more nearly complete. 
We can agree with M. Sudre in his comment on R. acutifrons, 
‘‘e’est une forme ? du ier du BR Schleicheri Whe.,”’ in the sense 
BOTANICAL RAMBLES IN GUERNSEY. 
By E. D. Mareuanp, A.L.S. 
Ir probably happens petty that a botanist visits the 
Channel cheese hoping to gather for himself certain wild plants 
which are peculiar to the islands, and goes back Sea scaer 
because ze has mete He to find any trace of them. e may have 
met many n d unexpected species, and so far been 
Tisoshtal but the particular things he was most desirous to see 
have been missed f ant of a litle info patie as to their 
whereabouts. When once you begin to botanize in this raves 
region you find that the different ss are are, each and all of them, 
a good deal larger than they appeared on the map; and rien likely 
a valuable time will be expended, first, in finding ont the best 
places to go to, and next, in searching for plants which there is 
very “little likelihood of finding. So it occurs to me that it may be 
helpful to intending visitors to give a few rough notes about the 
most interesting phanerogams of “Guernsey and Alderney, and the 
localities where | they are to be ae 
extremely warm and mild, and the spring, as a general rule, cold ; 
consequently the trees go to sleep late and wake up late. I noticed 
ne year, ey, that the horse-chestnuts were only just 
beginning to burst into leaf on ‘‘ Chestnut Sunday,” when the 
splendid avenue at Bushe rk was in all its glory of blossom. 
flowering is much about the same as in the South of England, but 
it extends longer; indeed, many wild plants continue in blossom 
nearly throughout the winter. Much depends, of Mg upon 
whether the season is wet or dry, early or late; peaking 
generally, I think it will be found that the first ee in April, 
the first fortnight in June, and the whole of August, are the best 
‘periods for a botanist to visit these islands in “order to s see the 
faspeet number of the special rarities. 
early days of April, proves the sun has not been too 
1, there is still a fair chance of procuring the curious little 
fern, Ophioglossum Sissesaicatin: slough it is a pei nter t, 
fruiting in January and February. ty grows in small patches, a 
nt, among i 
th 
Petit Bot Bay; and there are are many ‘of these patches along half a 
mile of coast. But the plant is so inconspicuous, that itis by no 
