260 MEETINGS. 



For this satisfactory result we are mainly, if not entirely, 

 indebted to Mr. Marquand and to his special knowledge of 

 the Cryptogamia. I may mention that the mere enumeration 

 of the species occupies thirty-five pages of the Society's 

 Transactions, and, to say nothing of work done in the field 

 and at home for the verification of the plants, the labour of 

 compiling and passing such matter through the press is very 

 great. The best thanks of the section must be accorded to 

 our worthy President for his invaluable assistance. 



As the other islands of the bailiwick come within the 

 operations of the Society, a commencement has been made by 

 this section towards the compilation of reliable lists of their 

 Floras. Here again special difficulties are encountered. If a 

 member of the section could be stationed in each island for a 

 twelvemonth the work could be easily and promptly done ; as 

 this is evidently impossible it is only by casual and brief visits 

 and by the help of the inhabitants where such exist, that 

 reliable information can be obtained. 



In the spring, by the assistance of Mr. Derrick, important 

 additions were made to the floras of Herm, Sark and Alderney. 

 Later in the year the Society's excursion to Herm afforded 

 the section an opportunity of making further additions to the 

 list of plants for that island. We are also indebted to Mr. A. 

 Mourant, a member of the Society, and to Mr. Gaudion, 

 schoolmaster of Alderney, for gatherings of plants from that 

 island, by which further additions have been made to the list. 

 In this connection I may note that one of the plants so sent 

 (Anthriscws sylvestris) has, as far as my information goes, 

 been noted only once before for the Channel Islands, and that 

 as far back as 1833, when it was reported by Mr. W. C. 

 Trevelyan to Mr. Babington as occurring in Jersey, but Mr. 

 Babington does not appear to have seen it himself. 



The section takes this opportunity of thanking Mr. 

 Gaudion for his assistance, and would be very glad to obtain 

 similar help from persons residing in any of the neighbouring 

 islands. 



PHANEROGAMS.— ADDITIONS IN 1893. 



Fumaria pallidiflora, Jord. Eoadside, Videclins (VIII.) in 1889, and 

 Castel Koad in 1890 (E. D. M.) 



Reseda SUffrutiCUlosa, L. One large plant on the shore at Grand Havre, 



evidently a garden outcast (E. D. M.) 



Silybum marianum, Gaert. Waste ground at Euettes Brayes, several 

 plants (Miss Dawber). One plant in a cultivated field near Woodlands 

 (Miss Dawber and E. D. M.) 



