REPORTS. 131 



GUERNSEY. 



One of the principal objects Mr. Druce had in view in 

 coming to Guernsey was to clear up, if possible, the mystery 

 surrounding the plant hitherto known as Salvia clandestina, 

 which was first recorded under that name by Professor 

 Babington in 1839, in his Flora Saiiiica. The plant appears 

 to be confined to a single locality, viz., Vazon Bay, where 

 it grows in fair quantity. After much study and research 

 Mr. Druce finds that it is not, as botanists have always 

 supposed, the true ^S'. clandestina. of Continental Europe, but an 

 entirely undescribed species, and he has done me the honour to 

 name it S.. Marquandii. A full description by him of the 

 plant and its affinities has just appeared in the Journal of 

 Botany, 



Another interesting species to be added to our Flora is 

 Agrostis verticillata, a grass indigenous to Southern Europe, 

 and only known in one locality in the North, viz., Cherbourg. 

 We found it growing in profusion in several widely distant 

 localities in Guernsey, and its close resemblance to some 

 foiins of A. alha accounts for its having been hitherto 

 overlooked. This also will be fully described by Mr. Druce 

 in the Journal of Botany as an addition to the British Flora. 

 These two species now raise the number of Guernsey Flowering 

 Plants which do not occur in Britain proper, from seventeen to 

 nineteen. 



In the course of our walks we were able to add some 

 other grasses to the Guernsey list, the names of which will be 

 found below, as well as a few casuals, and named varieties 

 not before noted. But there are two or three plants which 

 are wortli mentioning, although they have already been 

 recorded. On the coast at Grand Havre we found a fine large 

 specimen of Jaimtera syhestris well in fiower. This is quite a 

 ncAv station for this extremely rare British plant, showing that 

 it is now established liere, and spreading. (J)n the same coast 

 we saw perhaps a dozen specimens of Datura, stramonhun^ so 

 that this species appears likewise to be extending its range 

 westwards. I was greatly pleased when Mr. Druce found 

 Carex vesicarla in a marshy meadoAv at Grande Mare, 

 adjoining the Bue d'Enfer, for I always considered this one of 

 the very rarest and finest of our Guernsey Carices. Another 

 rarity detected by him was Ckenopodiitm glaucum^ growing in 

 the waste corner of a field on the Fort Road. A strange 

 looking grass, which occurs here and there along the north 

 coast and also in Alderney, was identified b}' Mr. Druce as a 

 hybrid between Triticuni repeiis and T. junceum. 



