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early sixties. This plant, of course a casual, has never been 

 recorded before from the Channel Islands. 



ALDERNEY. 



The additions made during the past twelvemonth to the 

 recorded flora of Alderney are so numerous that they could 

 not well be incorporated in this Report ; they form the subject 

 of a separate paper, which will be found further on in these 

 pages. 



The quite unexpected discovery of a Char a was one of 

 the events of the year, whilst the addition of several mosses 

 and seaweeds new to the Sarnian area, together with the 

 comparatively long list of Fresh-water Alga? which has been 

 drawn up, again confirm the opinion I have more than once 

 expressed, that considering its size, Alderney is unquestionably 

 the most interesting of all the Channel Islands from a botani- 

 cal standpoint. It is hardly probable that any considerable 

 addition will be made to the recorded flora for some years 

 to come, and, therefore, it may be useful to give here a 

 synopsis of the flora of Alderney as far as at present known : 



Flowering Plants 516 species. 



Equisetaceaa , 3 „ 



Ferns 13 „ 



Lycopodiacese 1 „ 



Characeee 1 „ 



Mosses 106 „ 



Hepatica? 21 „ 



Fungi 109 



Lichens . . . , 115 „ 



Seaweeds 232 



Fresh-water Algae 72 „ 



Total . . 1,189 



SARK. 



In last year's Report sixteen new Flowering Plants 

 were added to the recorded flora of Sark. This year Mr. 

 Derrick has sent me four additional species, viz. : Ranunculus 

 Baudotii from the pool at Clos Buret, Mibora minima from 

 the cliffs near Creux Derrible, and two others without 

 specified locality, Scandix pecteji-veneris and Lolium italicum. 

 The occurrence of Mibora in Sark is the more interesting 

 since it does not grow in Alderney, I think — at any rate I 

 searched for it there for four years, but without success. 

 Another species new to Sark, Silene nutans, was omitted in 



