192 REPORTS. 



Additions have been made to the recorded flora of five 

 of the islands which compose the Bailiwick of Guernsey 

 (or the Sarnian Islands, as I prefer to call them), and in 

 the case of Alderney and Sark two new fields of research 

 have been opened up, with gratifying success. Already a 

 considerable amount of new material has accumulated since 

 the publication of the Flora of Guernsey, so that if we 

 go on at the same rate it will be necessary in a few years' 

 time to embody all the additional matter in the form of a 

 Supplement. Meanwhile, extremely useful work can be done 

 by devoting special attention to the cryptogamic flora of 

 all the smaller islands, from Sark downwards. 



In order to facilitate future reference, it will be con- 

 venient in the present Report to summarise the results of 

 the year under each island, taking them in the usual order. 



GUERNSEY. 



A very interesting collection of Flowering Plants, 

 gathered in Guernsey between forty and fifty years ago by 

 the late Miss Guille, was recently presented to the Society. 

 The specimens are in good preservation, and many of them 

 throw light on species which have long since disappeared. 

 Unfortunately the collection is not complete — as if a portion 

 were missing. There are no representatives, for example, 

 of the large order of Cmbelliferm. Looking through the 

 collection I find several unrecorded stations for some of our 

 rarest wild flowers, which will be duly noted at a future 

 time. A word must be said, however, about one or two of 

 the most interesting species in Miss Guille's collection. 



The best of all is Wahlenbergia hederacea, the Ivy- 

 leaved Bell-flower, of which there is a good specimen labelled 

 " St. Martin's, 1858." The former existence in Guernsey 

 of this lovely little flower is thus conclusively proved, but 

 it is remarkable that no one seems to have seen it either 

 before or since ; in fact, this is the only positive evidence 

 of the occurrence of Wahlenbergia hederacea in the Channel 

 Islands, for Mr. Lester-Garland, in his recently-published 

 Flora of Jersey, doubts its reputed existence in that island, 

 although it was recorded more than sixty years ago by 

 Babington in the Flora Sarnica as occurring in Jersey. 



There is a specimen of Asplenium lanceolatum, var. 

 microdon, from " St. Pierre-du-Bois, October, 1856," and 

 one of Mentha pulegium from " Braye du Valle, September, 

 1850," a large plant eight inches high. The sheet containing 

 Ophioglossum lusitanicum is marked " Cliffs near Petit Bot 



