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cottage lamp Avas peculiai to the Channel Islands, whereas it 

 was identically the same lamp as used in Cornwall, under the 

 name of cnisie, down to the middle of last century. In 

 Scotland also it used to be found in many parts of the country 

 quite commonly, and was known as a cviisey, Ea^cu in the 

 Shetland Islands a lamp of the same name was employed. 

 From this it appeared probable that both the lamp and its 

 name came to the Channel Islands from the north, perhaps 

 from Scandinavia, and not through France from the south of 

 Europe. 



Monthly Meeting held on March 20th, 1907, Rev. l^f' . C, 

 Penney, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Miss C. Le Feuvre and Mr. E. T. Nicolle were 

 unanimously elected members of the vSociety. 



An Extraordinary General Meeting having been con- 

 vened, certain alterations in the Rules were made as recom- 

 mended by the Council. The new Rules as amended were 

 published in last year's Transactions. 



Mr. L. V. Lester-Garland, M.A., Principal of Victoria 

 College, Jersey, deliAcred in the Guille-AUes Lecture Hall a 

 lecture on the "Origin and distribution of the Flora of 

 Europe." In the (;ourse of liis remarks, which w^ere listened 

 to by a large audience, the lecturer said that the European 

 flora might be divided into the Arctic-Alpine, the Mediter- 

 raneo-Caucasian, and the Intermediate, or Temperate. The 

 plants of the mountainous regions of Central Europe resembled 

 those of the Arctic area, and must have had a common origin. 

 The Mediterranean flora was extremely rich in species ; many 

 (jf which were very restricted in their range. The Interme- 

 diate area included all the low-lying region of Central and 

 North-Central Europe, and its flora had been described 

 as a mongrel vegetation of mixed origin, including a large 

 proportion of species of the most extended geographical 

 distribution, with very few local types, and those in the 

 extreme west. vSome of the plants belonging to the Medi- 

 terranean region extend up the western coast of Europe as 

 far as Ireland and South-West England, and a few of these 

 are found in oui- own islands. Therefore it is necessary to 

 carefully study the plants of Western Europe if we wish to 

 understand properly the pecuUar flora of the Channel Islands. 

 The anomalous occurrence in Ireland of three North American 

 plants is difficult to account for ; but it is possible that they 

 originally reached Ireland by way of the Arctic regions. 



