278 ijEPOirrs. 



order to keep up to date the record in our Transacfio/is. As 

 usual, where a name is enclosed in brackets it signifies that 

 the species is already noted, but the vdvicty is new. The 

 number of floAvering plants (not counting varieties) now on 

 record for the three larger islands is as follows : (iuernsey 

 808 species ; Alderney 528 species ; Sark 441 species. 



So very fcAv ])apers have appeared in our Transactions 

 during the last eighteen years, bearing on the morphology of 

 plants, that I venture to direct attention to one which was 

 read before the Society last spring on the dimorphism of the 

 common Primrose. This paper only touches the mere fringe 

 of the great subject of ecology, or the study of plants in their 

 native homes, and it may serve to suggest to some of our 

 members, lady members especially, fields of work which, in 

 our small and favourably-situated islands, cannot possibly fail 

 to prove interesting, and may even yield results of great 

 scientific value. 



Guernsey. 



With the exception of two species, Crepis taraxacifolia 

 and Cuscnta irifolii^ all the flowering plants in the following 

 list were collected during Mr. Druce's two visits to these 

 islands in July, 1906, and at Easter, 1907. The specimens 

 were afterwards determined by Mr. Druce on his return to 

 Oxford, and recorded in his papers above mentioned, together 

 with many valuable critical notes. All I can give here 

 besides the name is the locality when it is specified. 



I have to report the occurrence in Guernsey of a very 

 interesting fungus new to our islands, the Morell {Morcliella 

 esculenta) of which five or six specimens were first discovered 

 in the month of April by Miss Carey in the little plantation 

 opposite the Vallon. Some of them were very fine, the largest 

 being about four inches in diameter. Miss Carey, who kindly 

 showed them to me growing, told me later that a dozen 

 specimens had been found at the LoAver Beaucamps, and also 

 some in a field at St. George, as well as in Saumarez Park. 

 A specimen was also sent me from a garden at Cordier Hill, 

 found by Mr. H. Grace at the end of April ; so that evidently 

 this handsome fungus is widely distributed in Guernsey. 

 Morcliella esculenta and Amanita muscaria are the only addi- 

 tions to the list of 612 Guernsey Fungi given in my Flora. 

 In August, 1903, I saw a fine specimen of the very rare and 

 beautiful Clathrns cancellatns in the plantation by the Bathing 

 Places. 



A new locality for the Bogbean {Menyantlies trifoliata), 

 a plant now very nearly extinct in Guernsey, was discovered 



