BOTANICAL RAMBLES IN GUERNSEY 207 
is Helianthemum guttatum, which grows in —— on the cliffs 
mi The 
yas 
they are growing. This species is peculiar to Alderney and Jerse ey, 
and so is another non-British P ant, Orobanche Millefolii, remark- 
able by its deep violet-blue flowers. It is parasitic on yarrow, ri 
is generally serene unronghont Alderney, the second week i 
June being about the best time to see it. 
Whilst in iiiceeey search caw y be made, if time permits, ~ 
Bupleurum aristatum, which is, as in sires e quite plentiful o 
nearly all the sandhills near the sea. But i o diminutive, she 
so intermixed with other plants, that it is aul noticed by the 
untrained eye. I may as well note, in passing, that a day’s excur- 
sion to Alderney, by steamer from Guernsey, allows some four or 
five hours on the island, which is quite sufficient time to collect the 
plants mentioned above, if the collector is a fairly good walker. 
n Guernsey Silene quinguevulnera is confined to three or four 
sckiciaa at the Vale, the best of which was a few years ago the 
and stoneworks in thei go June is too — 
for most of the grass ‘che by the end of the month Laguru 
ovatus will already be showing its little woolly heads, which eaaisioh 
possibly be mistaken for anything else. It is abundant all org 
the sandy coast of rae rnsey, only locality in the Chann 
Islands in —s it is gine 
In nth of August we have a veritable embarras de richesses, 
and, pci e let him who goes botanizing in Guernsey at that 
e car culum; he will find plenty to fillit. One 
of the best localities for a day’s excursion is the ee tract 
ee » a quarter of a mi isnt : es 
i atm Following the course of the nan as far ras een coast, can 
then turning in the direction of Cobo, you come upon Cynodon 
Dactylon and Centaurea aspera, both in plenty. Just he ere, in 
places, Herniaria glabra carpets the ground, and may be seen all 
along the coast as far as Lancresse. On the western side of Vazon 
a. 
sem a sis, 
omg be recognized at once by its more elongated cylindrical 
ads. 
One of the see ie a of botanists who go over to 
Guernsey in August is Cicendia pusilla, a very small plant with 
lilac flowers, which ose ae two or three places at the eastern end 
of Lancresse Common. It is not by any means plentiful, and in 
some seasons hardly any flowers show themselves. ‘This little 
