FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF 

 ALDERNEY. 



BY MR. E. D. MARQUAND, A.L.S. 



It gives me pleasure to be able to present to tne Society 

 another important addition to the recorded Flora of the island 

 of Alderney. 



During the past year only four new Flowering Plants 

 have come under my notice, — three of them casuals, but 

 the fourth, Inula Coiiyza, undoubtedly a native I think, 

 as it occurs in Guernsey, Sark and Herm, and is fairly com- 

 mon in Normandy. The discovery of a Chara in an old 

 quarry pool at Corbelets was a pleasant surprise, because 1 

 had no idea that the Characece were represented in Alderney 

 at all. 



Since the Flora of Guernsey was published, I have added 

 thirteen mosses to the Alderney list, of which six are new to 

 the Sarnian area. A very beautiful Hypnum, with stems ten 

 inches long, which I found in the same pool as the Chara, 

 puzzled me greatly both when growing, and when examined 

 microscopically ; but Dr. Braithwaite, to whom I sent speci- 

 mens, recognised it as the variety paternum of Amblystegium 

 Kneiffii, an extremely rare British moss. Another excellent 

 find was Tortula canesce?is, a very rare species, closely 

 resembling some forms of T. muralis, but readily distinguished 

 by the long tubular peristome. 



Such rarities as these (and Bartramia stricta, which is 

 recorded in my book) amply compensate for the absence of 

 several widely-distributed and common species, and show how 

 much is to be found by persistent research, even in one of our 

 smaller islands. The present list raises the number of mosses 

 recorded for Alderney to 106 species. 



Last year I added 62 Marine Algae to the Alderney list, 

 and this year I am able to increase the number by fourteen 

 more, all of which, except three, are new to the Sarnian area. 

 For their identification I am again indebted to my friend 



