The Flora of Herm. 



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plants are concerned) than has ever yet been made out, for it 

 brings the total number of species up to 234. 



The most interesting plants to be found in Herm, or rather 

 those which are of considerable rarity in Britain, are the 

 following : — 



Silene nutans Polycarpon tetraphyllum 



Erodium moschatum Bupleurum aristatum 



Trifolium glomeratum Orobanche amethystea 



Lotus angustissimus Scrophularia scorodonia 



,, hispidus Bartsia viscosa 



J uncus acutus. 

 Of species which are very rare in Guernsey, but which I 

 observed to be more or less common in Herm, may be men- 

 tioned the following : — 



Thlaspi arvense Erodium maritimum 



Silene nutans Dipsacus sylvestris 



Lychnis vespertina Echium vulgare 



Veronica officinalis. 

 In Babington's list only one fern is recorded, and there- 

 fore I am glad to be able to testify that at this present date 

 six species are growing wild upon the island. I rather wish to 

 emphasize this fact, because two of them are very scantily re- 

 presented, and in daily peril of being swept away by the insati- 

 able rapacity of senseless fern-grubbers. All these ferns are 

 common in Guernsey. 



The following is a list of the phanerogams found by me at 

 Herm, including the four species added by Messrs. Eandell and 

 Derrick. Those which are not noted for Herm in Babington's 

 " Primitiae Florae Sartiicse " have a * affixed. In order to 

 render this list as complete as possible I have appended in a 

 separate column all the species recorded by Babington but not 

 seen by me. And lastly, there is the list of Ferns. 



SPECIES NOTED BY ME : 

 Ranunculus ficaria* Ranunculus bulbosus* 



„ flammula* Papaver dubium* 



,, repens „ rhceas 



