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Sussex Botanical Recording Society Newsletter Sussex Botanical Recording Society Newsletter No. 56 May 2003 Chairman's Message Secretary’s Note by Rod Stern The Autumn Get-together will be held at Staplefield th Most if not all of our members will now be aware of Village Hall on Saturday 15 November 2003. The our major recording effort for this year and the next for hall will be open at 10.00 a.m. and the meeting will the BSBI Local Change project. In recent years we start at 10.30 a.m. Soup and jacket potatoes will be have tended to concentrate on site visits and some of available for lunch with tea and cakes later in the our members will not be familiar with tetrad recording, afternoon. Trevor Lording will be showing slides of which was the principle activity of our predecessor the Plants of The Lizard. Members are invited to bring Sussex Flora Society, and which was the basis for the books and plants for sale and any items of interest or Sussex Plant Atlas. Some of us worked on selected specimens for display. We look forward to meeting tetrads A, J and W in the BSBI Monitoring Scheme any new members, who will be especially welcome at organised by Tim Rich in 1987 and 1988. I was the Get-together. responsible for a tetrad in east Hampshire as there was a shortage of botanists in Hampshire at that time, The Staplefield Conservation Group has asked for whereas in Sussex we were well off in that respect. In further help in their surveys of the Staplefield the following year, the Hampshire Flora Group was Commons and would be delighted and extremely grateful if any of our members could help. The dates established and that body is now thriving, with enough th th th members to record in their allocated tetrads. are 26 April, 5 July and 30 August. All meetings start at 10.00 a.m. from the bus shelter by the Victory I should mention that I much enjoyed recording for the public house. BSBI Monitoring Scheme and it is very satisfying to Rita Hemsley pay visits at different times of the year and over two years to achieve an intensity of recording which we Treasurer's Note cannot do normally. I sincerely hope that our members Subscriptions for 2003 are now due for payment. The will really enjoy this challenge. There will be a few rates remain the same: £3.00 for an individual member, difficulties, as we found on our first field meeting on and £4.50 for joint members at the same address. 30th March. Do not be put off by trying to decide for Subscriptions can be paid at the Autumn Get-together, example whether a shrub is inside or outside a garden, or sent to me: Trevor Lording, 17 Hill Rise, or what sort of Cypress it is. Incidentally, in my note Crowborough, East Sussex TN6 2DH. on Alien Conifers in the last newsletter, I said that planted conifers should not be recorded. This still In This Issue applies to all our usual recording activities, but we Chairman's Message. 1 have to include them for the BSBI Local Change Secretary's Note. 1 project. Treasurer's Note. 1 Betty Bishop, Hon Member. 2 At the Slinfold meeting on 30th March, I said I found Botanical Survey of Arlington Reservoir. 2 two books of particular use for alien trees and shrubs. Shingle Survey of Shoreham Beach. 2 For trees, I recommend Alan Mitchell’s A Field Guide Guizotia abyssinica (L. fil.) Cas.. in Sussex. 2 to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe. For Preview - Sussex Wildflowers. 3 shrubs as well as trees, a useful book is The Juniper Survey Update 3 Identification of Trees and Shrubs by F.K.Makins; this Obituaries 3 is over 50 years old, but sometimes can be obtained News from Ashdown Forest 3 from second-hand booksellers. Makins also published Garmin Etrex GPS systems 3 Concise Flora of Britain with user-friendly keys and Toothwort Records Wanted 4 without which I am not sure whether I would have Alien News 4 taken up botany. VC13 Interesting Records 2002 5 Recorders Initials 5 Best of luck in your efforts for BSBI Local Change. VC14 Interesting Records 2002 6 1 Betty Bishop, Hon. Member of SBRS baxteri, a hybrid between S. squalidus and S. vulgaris. The fact that many of the gardens run on to the beach Members who were present at the AGM in March will results in lots of garden escapes like Althea rosea already know that Betty has been made an Honorary (Hollyhocks), Briza maxima (Greater Quaking-grass), Member of our Society, in recognition of her Calendula officinalis (Pot Marigold) and Erigeron enormous contribution to our knowledge of Sussex glaucus (Seaside Daisy). Trifolium stellatum is still botany over many years. Congratulations, Betty! And widespread at the eastern end of the beach, growing in Mary Briggs adds: large patches on the shingle, and in people's gardens. First recorded here in 1806 (see Wolley-Dod's Flora of As well as being honoured by SBRS, Betty tells me Sussex 1937), Betty says that it was thought to have that now she is no longer as mobile for field work, she originally been brought in ships' ballast. We recorded is recording phenology for the Woodland Trust. For 180 species in all - a very enjoyable survey in spite of her records of the first sightings of birds, insects and of being told to **** off by one of the local people who plants in flower each year for over 40 years, The thought we should look at the plants in our own back Woodland Trust has recognized her as their oldest yards! recorder (83). From this she has had a mention in the Daily Mail and in The Guardian, and also a telephone A real delight was to see the European wall lizard interview for a BBC 7 children's programme. Again, which lives on and around the walls of the old fort. well done, Betty! They only seem to appear on warm sunny days, so you have to be lucky. Botanical Survey of Arlington Reservoir Should anyone like a list of the plants we found I I have agreed to coordinate a survey of the areas would be happy to supply one. surrounding Arlington Reservoir, for South-East Water. The area includes planted woodland, grassland, marshy areas, riverside and a pond with some aquatic Guizotia abyssinica (L. fil.) Cas.. in Sussex plants. Members are invited to help with the survey on by Mary Briggs the following dates: Since 1990 Alan has received seven records of Thursday 22nd.May, 7pm Guizotia abyssinica for our Database, all but one from Thursday 19nth June, 7pm the central coastal area and mostly from flower beds on Friday 4th July, 10.30am Brighton seafront sent in by Tony Spiers and Paul, but one of Paul's from a Parcel Force car park by Hove We will be able to park and meet in the Fishing Lodge station. Those which are not coastal are from a muddy Car Park. The entrance is via the lower road, below pond margin at Falmer, found by Tony, and one from the public car park, at approximately TQ528074. Ferring as a spontaneous garden weed sent in by Martin Ford. Please let me know if you will be coming, in case there is a change to the parking arrangements. When this plant was first noticed in 1990 we thought of it as a new record for Sussex: there is no mention of it Helen Proctor Tel: 01323-844680 in Sussex Plant Atlas (1980) or the SPA Supplement (1990), nor, we thought, in earlier Floras of Sussex. However, browsing through Wolley-Dod's Flora of Shingle Survey of Shoreham Beach Sussex (1937), I came across Guizotia abyssinica in the by Beryl Clough 'List of casual Aliens in Sussex' - not in the main body of the Flora, but in the Introduction. Two records for In 2002 Betty Bishop was approached by one of the G. abyssinica are cited: 'Brighton T.H.' and residents of Shoreham Beach concerning the local 'Whitehawk Valley E.E.'. T.H. is identified in the Flora flora and fauna - he was keen that the local people in 'Sussex Botanologia', and also in the Introduction, as should be aware of the special habitat they have on 'T. Hilton of Brighton (circ. 1890-1909)' with the their doorsteps. In response to this Betty recruited Jean comment 'perhaps the collector of the greater number Clunes, Judy Wilson and me, who of course were all of Sussex plants than any other botanist, unless it was very happy to join her once a month through the Roper'. Wolley-Dod then describes 'three large season to record the local flora. herbaria', adding 'His names are very reliable, only a little excusable weakness being observable in one or I know most of our members are familiar with two critical genera' - (botanical comment does not Shoreham Beach and know the special plants that grow change much through the years!). Britten and Boulger's there, but I will mention a few of the most important British and Irish Botanists (1931) gives Thomas ones: Cochlearia danica, an abundance of Crambe Hilton's dates as 1833-1912, that he was Hon. Curator maritima, the delightful Diplotaxis muralis, Glaucium of Brighton Museum, and that a hybrid aquatic flavum, Lavatera arborea, Lycium barbarum, Ranunculus was named after him as R. x hiltoni. E.E. Melilotus indica, Ornithogalum umbellatum and Poa in Wolley-Dod is Rev.
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