Botanical Expedition "to Guernsey and Jersey. 399 



Jersey ; and Arthrolohium ebracleatum and Atriplex rosea in 

 Guernsey. 



It may perhaps give some slight idea of the Flora of these islands, 

 if I now mention a few of the more common and rarer plants in 

 them, and compare the lists M'ith those of England. 



The following are rare in England, but common in Guernsey or 

 Jersey. 



Asplenium lanceolatum. Herniaria glabra, (the nia (in both the isl- 



Trichonema columnae. plant of Suffolk nq^ ands.) 



Bromus diandrus. Cornwall. ) Orobanche coernlea and 



Cynosurus echinatiis. Matthiola sinuata. Lotus angustissimus (hi 



Cyperus longus. Euphorbia peplis. Jersey only.) 



Iris foetidissimus. Exacum filiforme. Lotus hispidus, and Poly- 



Erodium moschatum. Scilla autumnalis, and gonum maritimum (in 



Helianthemum guttatum. Scrophularia scorodo- Guernsey and Herm.) 



I will now notice a few common English plants which are rare 

 in those Islands. 



Bunium flexuosum. Lamium album. Ranunculus ficaiia. 

 Cardamine pratensis. Primula veris. Mercurialis perennis. 

 hirsuta. Lysimachia nummularia. Saxifraga tridactylites. 



I may also mention a few common English plants which have 

 not been noticed in the Channel Islands. 



Anemone nemorosa. Hypericum hirsutum. Habenaria chlorantha. 



Bromus asper. Listera ovata. Helianthemum vulgare. 



Campanula, (no species Betula alba. Juncus glaucus. 



of the genus.) Caltha palustris. Ononis antiquorum. 



I am sorry that it has not been in my power, to make a similar 

 comparison of my list, with the Flora of the north of France •* as I 

 am convinced that a far greater similarity would have been shown 

 to exist between the plants of the Channel Islands, and those of 

 that country, than appears between them and the native Flora of 

 Britain. Would it not be far better to separate the Channel Isl- 

 ands from the countries included in the British Flora, since, althouo-h 

 British by political connection, they are not so by geographical po- 

 sition } I suspect that their almost total neglect has been chiefly 

 caused by their inclusion in our lists, — the French not consider- 

 ing them as part of their district, and the English thinkin-T them 

 too small or too distant from our coasts to be worthy of examina- 

 tion. 



In the discussion which followed the reading of this paper, Mr Forbes re- 

 marked, that the botany of Jersey was very similar to that of the adjacent coast 

 of France — Eds. 



