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all " made ' land. Again, elaborate and costly sea-walls are being 

 built all round the low-lying parts of the coast, and the botanical 

 features of the foreshore entirely obliterated. In the case of 

 Alderney and Sark it seems impossible to tell what plants have 

 become extinct, as no early records exist which can be relied on. 

 The " Flora Sarnica " records, when unconfirmed, are absolutely 

 unrehable. 'in Jersey and Guernsey the following once native 

 plants have almost certainly disappeared : — 



(1) Jersey. — Pilularia globuHfera, Trigloohin maritimum, Cata- 

 brosa aquatica, Milium effusum. Polygonum minus, Rumex 

 maritimus, Atriplex portulaooides, Sagina nodosa, Eanunoulus 

 ophioglossifolius. Nasturtium palustre. Euphorbia Peplis, Lud- 

 wigia apetata, Cynoglossum officinale, Mentha Pulegium, Bidens 

 cernua, B. tripartita, Diotis candidissima. 



(2) Guernsey. — Botryohium Lunaria, Typha latifolia, Suseda 

 fruticosa, Hippuris vulgaris. Euphorbia Peplis, Althaea officinalis, 

 Frankenia Isevis, Statice Limonium, Utricularia minor, Veronica 

 scutellata, Pulioaria vulgaris, Bidens tripartita. 



VII. Attention may perhaps be drawn to the following 

 Points of Interest. 



(a) The preponderance of small Leguminosae belonging to the 

 genera Trifolium, Lotus, Vicia, Medicago, Ornithopus and Trigo- 

 nella is a very marked feature. 



(b) The genera containing the greatest number of species are 

 Carex (25), Juncus (11), Rumex (9), Polygonum (9), Ranunculus 

 (15), Trifolium (15), Veronica (11). 



(c) The wealth of colour of the Jersey plants in particular is 

 very strUsing. Besides the ordinary species of Gorse, Broom, 

 Heather, and Poppy, which make a great show anywhere in W. 

 Europe, there are acres of Armeria plantagtnea and huge masses 

 of Eohium plantagineum and Ceutranthus ruber, and on the sandy 

 ground in the west of the Island Erucastrum incanum, Brassioa 

 Cheiranthus, and Rhaphanus maritimus are most conspicuous. 

 The colours of the various species of Orchis which adorn the 

 damp meadows are wonderfully rich, and there is abundance of 

 the beautiful Matthiola sinuata on the coast of St. Ouen's Bav. 



