Primitiae florae sarnicae, or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Serk. Containing a catalogue of the plants indigenous to the islands: with occasional observations upon their distinctive characters, affinities, and nomenclature / By Charles C. Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Primitiae florae sarnicae, or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Serk. Containing a catalogue of the plants indigenous to the islands: with occasional observations upon their distinctive characters, affinities, and nomenclature / By Charles C. Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ney on the north, to form the chief example of that portion of the primary section, produced ajler the Granite (properly so called); thus placing this latter island and neighbouring rocks (mainly formed of schistose primary sandstone) with the more elevated portion of Guernsey, which is ex- clusively of Gneiss. The Island of Serk will then take an intermediate position between the Syenite (or Guernsey and Cherbourg Granite^ and the Gneiss of the south, and account for the elevation of the intruding Strata belonging to the Gneiss series, which there form the principal portion of that island, and compose the schistose rocks there observable. “ The islands of Ilerm and Jethou partake of the Granitic division (or Syenite) of Guernsey, which constitutes the north and north-eastern portion of that island, leaving the eastern coast of Ciuernsey to be placed within the line of the strata above mentioned, which accompanies the Gneiss of the south. Thus it will now be perceived that the Hornblende Schistus of this part of the island becomes rightly appropriated and connected with Serk and the south of Guernsey. “Jersey has on the west about one-third of its area composed of Syenite, which is followed by a very irregular series of rocks, appertaining to the Argillaceous division, coarse Argillaceous Schistus, Wacce usually amorphous, and including a variety of substances, but passing into Puddingstone at the north-eastern extremity, between which point and the re-appearance of the Syenite of the west is a