FLOBA OF JERSEY. 



(6) Granite sea-oliffs. 



(c) Salt marshes — these have almost entirely disappeared. 



(d) Eough moorland and hillsides. 



(e) Ordinary, cultivated, flat table-land. 



(/) Sheltered, moist valleys and low-lying meadows. 



It is worth noticing that most of the plants of S. and W. 

 Europe, which form the most interesting feature of the Jersey 

 Flora, affect station (a). 



IV. Sources of information as to the Botany of Jersey. 



In the introduction to the " Primitise Floree Sarnicse " (1839), 

 Babington gives a short list of his authorities. He had remark- 

 ably little to go upon, and only two points deserve to be noticed. 

 (1) He drew attention to the plants noted as having been found in 

 Jersey by Dr. Sherard in Bay's Synopsis (1680-1690). These are 

 interesting as being the earliest Jersey records. There are only 

 eleven species, identified by Sir J. E. Smith with Chara gracilis, 

 Cynosurus echinatus, Bromus madritensis, Briza minor, Phalaris 

 arundinacea, Scirpus pungens, Helianthemum guttatum, Bartsia 

 viscosa, Scrophularia Scorodonia, Echium plantagineum, and 

 Gnaphalium luteo-album. (2) I have taken the trouble to exhume 

 from the Report of the Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural 

 Society for 1839, the list of plants mentioned by Babington as 

 having been published by Professor La Gasca, of Madrid. It 

 is dated " London, October 4, 1834," and was sent by Dr. Lindley 

 (who ought to have known better) to Colonel Le Couteur, the 

 President of the Jersey Society. It need only be said that this 

 list is so full of obvious absurdities that it is absolutely valueless. 

 Native and cultivated plants, plants that do occur and plants that 

 do not and never did, are all jumbled together in inextricable con- 

 fusion. I have ignored it, and have not included his plants even 

 in the List of Ambiguities and Errors. Bequiescat in pace. 



The " Flora Sarnica " itself was, as Babington himself says, the 

 result of "two summer visits " to the Islands in 1837 and 1838. It 

 was also written when the author was quite a young man. These 

 two facts are sufficient to account for its incompleteness. But it 

 is also in some ways too complete. He records some sixty plants 

 on the authority of Professor La Gasoa and Mr. B. Saunders. 

 The latter was an intelligent Nursery gardener, and had a very 

 interesting collection of cultivated plants, but he was not a sound 



