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islands appear to have been totally neglected by British botanists. 

 I am not aware that there has ever been any published account of 

 their Flora ; nor do I know of more than three botanists, since'thetime 

 of Ray, who have communicated to the public any information con- 

 cerning them from personal observation. I refer to the papers of 

 Mr Woods in the Companion to the Botanical Magazine, Mr Christy 

 in the Magazine of Natural History, and Mr Trevelyan in the Sup- 

 plement to English Botany. Mr Woods has recorded the plentiful 

 occurrence of several of our rarer English plants, and has added 

 to the list the five following, viz. Allium sphcerocepkalum, Bromus 

 maximus, Fesluca sabulicola, Brassica cheiranthus, and Scirpus te- 

 nuiflorus. Mr Christy notices only one additional species, namely, 

 Allium sph&rocephalum ; but that having- been also recorded by Mr 

 Woods, (whose paper appeared at about the same time), it does not 

 add to the total number of discoveries. Mr Trevelyan, I believe, 

 gathered only one new plant, viz. Armeria plantaginea, but he re- 

 discovered Echium violaceum, which probably had not been noticed 

 since the time of Ray, and also Centaurea Isnardi and Lagurus 

 ovatus. There now remains only one recorded species of those 

 which have not been found in Britain, viz. J uncus capitatus, disco- 

 vered by Hudson, and I believe found recently by Mr Woods. 



After these preliminary observations, I will now proceed to com- 

 municate to the Section the results of my own visit to the islands 

 during the present summer. Although my success has far exceeded 

 my expectations, yet, as I was only able to devote four weeks to 

 Jersey, three to Guernsey, and a single day to the little island 

 of Herm, I have no doubt that much more remains to be done. 

 Indeed there is not a single plant recorded for either of the islands 

 of Alderney or Sark, both of which I was prevented from visiting 

 by bad weather. 



In Jersey I noticed about 500 species of plants, and was so for- 

 tunate as to obtain from Mr Saunders, a nurseryman there, an ad- 

 ditional list of 200 species which had been gathered by himself, 

 making a total number for that island of about 700 native species. 

 In Guernsey I myself gathered about 420, and in Herm 196 spe- 

 cies, or 725 for the three islands. No cryptogamic plants are in- 

 cluded in these numbers except ferns. 



In addition to observing numerous specimens of all those men- 

 tioned before, I was so fortunate as to find six plants, which have 

 not as yet been recorded in our lists, viz. Hypericum linear if olium, 

 Neottia aestivalis, Sinapis incana and Mercurialis ambigua in 



