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THE decision of the council of the British Empire Naturalists' Association to hold a summer holiday meeting at Jersey in the latter half of June is an interesting tribute to the natural history interests of the Channel Islands, where so many Continental and North African plants reach the northern limit of their distribution, and certain reptiles and birds unknown in England may be studied. In its flora, Jersey holds most interest to the British naturalist for the very mild winters permitting up to forty species to flower in late December, thus producing a Continental rather than British flora. The most interesting species on the island not found in the rest of the British Isles are the Jersey bugloss; the Jersey toadflax, one of the rarest of European flowers blooming at the end of May; the Jersey star thistle; and the loose-flowered orchid. The region of St. Ouens Bay is considered the richest botanically, for there are few woods on the island, though such rare flowers elsewhere in Britain as the wild daffodil flourish on the cliffs, maiden hair fern in certain rocks, wild wallflower on the walls of Mont Orgueil Castle, yellow horn poppy, golden samphire, sea-lavender and sea kale on the coast. Scirpus americanus, found at St. Ouen's Ponds, is a very rare rush of the Jersey flora, while the Jersey fern (Gymnogramme leptophylla, Des.), a North African species, is equally interesting.
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Jersey Meeting of the British Empire Naturalists' Association. Nature 135, 613 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135613a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135613a0