Out in the open grassy places on the limestone hills was another 

 beautiful Composite, Buphthalmium salicifolium L., the Yellow Ox-eye, 

 with large orange yellow daisy flowers, and a beautiful clear yellow 

 pansy, Viola elegans occurred everywhere. On the bare summits of 

 the hills was a Cat's Ear Antennaria dioica (L.) with attractive silky 

 greyish heads, with Cicendia filiformis (L.) and Bastard Toadflax Thesium 

 humifusum DC. In a few places quantities of the fluffy seed heads of 

 Pasque Flower Anemone Pulsatilla L. were seen and a brilliant pink 

 Dianthus, possibly D. sylvestris Wulf, but I had no opportunity to 

 examine this on the hillside. White spiked Rampion Phyteuma spicatum 

 L. grew among the scrub which consisted mainly of the low growing 

 Rosa alpina L. with crimson flowers. I only saw one plant of R. canina 

 L. the whole time. 



Amongst the rocks on a dry hillside I found the pink and white 

 Crown Vetch Coronilla varia L. with its round heads of flowers ; this 

 is an old cottage garden plant. Another garden plant was the tall blue 

 Campanula persicifolia L. — neither of these were common, being 

 confined to one area in that district. A lilac-flowered Arabis A. arenosa 

 also grew on the rocks ; it is more like a rocket Sisymbrium L. with 

 its long curving pods and stiff rosettes of finely toothed leaves ; in 

 places too was the blue Globularia cordifolia L. like a large version of 

 the Jasione montana L. so widespread at Dungeness. 



Yellow Foxgloves Digitalis ambigua L. grew in some quantity in 

 a number of places in the woods — I was told they were rare in those 

 parts and they certainly aroused the interest of several people on the 

 coach. 



A. good deal of Spotted Dead Nettle Lamium maculatum L. grew 

 under walls and hedges by the roadside but strangely very few leaves 

 showed the characteristic white splashes, and this seems normal across 

 the Channel. 



On rocky outcrops and especially on castle ruins, we found many 

 wild gooseberry bushes laden with fruit ; the berries are pale yellowish 

 green with reddish streaks, and are very sweet and juicy and well flav- 

 oured, rather like the small old-fashioned yellow variety once common 

 in gardens. 



Perhaps one of the most beautiful plants was the red berried Elder 

 Sambucus racemosa L. This is a shrub rarely more than 12 ft. high, 

 with yellow flowers followed by dense clusters of small vivid red berries, 

 which showed up brilliantly against the dark foliage. This was very 

 common along all the wooded mountain roads. 



I was able to identify most of the specimens I collected from some 

 books lent to me by the librarian at Mont Ste. Odile. 



Vera F. P. Day, n.d.h., f.r.h.s. 



