ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF HERM. 



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



In the early part of this year, through the most kind favour 

 and influence of his Highness Prince Bliicher, I received 

 from the Westbank-Liegnitz, of Vierraden, who are the 

 owners of Herm, permission to visit and stay in that island 

 whenever I chose during the spring and summer, in order to 

 further investigate its fauna and flora. This was a very 

 special privilege and favour, for which I desire to record my 

 most grateful obligations. I have also to return my best 

 thanks to Mr. Leicester Gore, the Manager of Herm, who 

 afforded me every facility for pursuing my researches without 

 restraint in all parts of the island. 



Although of diminutive size, this little island of Herm 

 teems with animal and vegetable life of all kinds, besides 

 being extremely picturesque ; far more so than would be 

 imagined by persons who do not go beyond the great centre 

 of attraction — the shell beach. The wonderful richness of 

 this famous beach is well known, but many persons seem to 

 be under the impression that nothing but dead shells are to be 

 found here. As a matter of fact, however, the shores of 

 Herm far surpass any other locality in the Channel Islands 

 in the variety and rarity of the living mollusca they produce ; 

 indeed, it may be questioned whether there is another spot in 

 the whole of the United Kingdom that equals Herm in that 

 respect. 



It is not my intention to say anything just now concerning 

 the shells, or other sections of marine life ; and the insects 

 will shortly be dealt with in an exhaustive paper by Mr. Luff. 

 But I have collected some additional notes of considerable 

 interest on the botany of Herm, which throw a great deal of 

 fresh light upon the general flora of the Channel Islands as 

 a group. 



It may be remembered that in my " Flora of Guernsey 

 and the Lesser Channel Islands," published a few years ago, 

 I enumerated all the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Fern- 



