THE FLORA OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, WITH 

 REMARKS UPON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRI- 

 BUTION AND AFFINITIES OF THE SPECIES. 



I. List of Species. 

 II. Comparison of the Islands. 

 III. Bblation of the Channel Islands Flora to the 



Flora of Edkope in general. 

 IV. Eelation to the Flora of the coasts of France. 

 V. Naturalised Aliens and Casuals. 

 VI. Loss to the Indigenous Flora. 

 VII. Minor points of interest. 



The following list of plants is intended to represent as far as 

 possible the indigenous Flora of the Channel Islands, including 

 "colonists," i.e., well - established weeds of cultivation, but 

 excluding such as ai'e certainly of foreign extraction, however 

 abundant and widely diffused they may have become. The 

 records for the other Islands have been taken from Mr. Marquand's 

 '■ Flora of Guernsey," * but I have used my own judgment with 

 the utmost freedom as to what plants should and what should not 

 be included, especially in the case of Alderney and Sark, where 

 Mr. Marquand seldom distinguishes natives from introduced aliens. 

 I have also ruthlessly eliminated, as far as possible, all uncer- 

 tainties and ambiguities, and in computing the various totals have 

 taken no notice of the sign (?), which appears, even as it is, only 

 too frequently. The standard of " species " adopted is approxi- 

 mately that of the species and sub-species oi Hooker's " Students' 

 Flora," and of Corbiere's " Nouvelle Flore de Normandie," a most 

 useful book. For purposes of comparison it is useless to go lower 

 down the scale. 



* Mr. C. P. Hurst has very kindly sent me a list of species which he has 

 either discovered or rediscovered in Sark and Brechou. Eleven of these 

 are included in the list ; also Juncus oapitatus, new to Alderney. 



