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REPORTS. 



Report of the Botanical Section, 1912. 



The most important fact to be noted is the discovery 

 of a plant new to the island : Amaryllis lutea, Li. (syn. 

 Sternbergia, hitea, Gavol). I have known the plant growing 

 for at least seven years near Hougne du Pommier on the 

 Grandes Rocques road, and it seems now quite established 

 and spreading. Although it has certainly escaped from a 

 garden, we must give it a place in our flora. Amaryllis lutca 

 is a kind of yellow crocus blooming in September ; the long 

 leaves come out after the bloom, and in summer the whole 

 of the plant disappears. 



As far as I know the plant has not been found in 

 England ; in France it grows in Provence, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Agen and Noirmentiers, also around Lyon, which 

 is its extreme north station. 



I have also to record a new station in Guernsey for 

 Fray aria vesca, L., in a lane behind St. Saviour's Church, 

 but only a few plants — Setaria glauca, P.B., at Les Vaurioufs, 

 St. Martin's — Digitaria sanguinalis, Scop, as a weed in a 

 private property at Les Becquets, St. Martin's. 



Five plants of Datura stramonium, X., sprang up on 

 a big rubbish heap along the tramway line at Belgreve Bay. 



Both at the Ladies' College and St. Andrew's Cottage 

 Garden Society there was a competition for wild plants dried 

 and mounted. Several exhibits numbered as many as three 

 hundred species. Perhaps our Society could do something to 

 show our interest in these competitions. 



I wish to mention also one or two points about the plants 

 noticed this year. During August Cicendia pusilla, Gris., 

 was very plentiful near Fort Doyle, as also Arthrolobinm 

 cbracteatum, D.C., and OpMoglossum lusitanicum, L. These 

 plants do not appear every year. Suceda maritima, Dum., 

 occurs at Lihou Island as well as Glaucium hiteum, Scop. ; 

 both these species are new to the flora of Lihou. 



During the winter 1 treated chemically the extremely 

 valuable herbarium belonging to the Society to try to preserve 

 it from mould and mites. Each specimen was soaked in a 

 solution of corrosive sublimate, such as is usually employed 

 in herbaria. 



R. Metman, 



Sec. Bot. Section. 



