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Summer X3 2012 Newsletter Issue 40 Summer 2012 WILTSHIRE BOTANICAL SOCIETY Contents The Snowdrop Walk at Erlestoke Woods---------------------------------1 St Patrick's Day at Caen Hill Locks----------------------------------------3 Fritillary Survey, Clattinger Farm------------------------------------------4 Clouts Wood, Quidhampton Wood and Bincknoll Castle--------------5 Wild Liquorice -----------------------------------------------------------5 Porton Down -----------------------------------------------------------------7 Stonehill Wood---------------------------------------------------------------9 Cheverell Down ------------------------------------------------------------10 The Brecklands Trip, Norfolk---------------------------------------------10 Cranwich Camp---------------------------------------------------------11 Santon Downham -------------------------------------------------------12 Thompson Common ---------------------------------------------------13 Wretham Heath ---------------------------------------------------------14 Sheringham and Beeston Regis Commons SSSI--------------------15 Overstrand Cliffs.-------------------------------------------------------17 Ramsbury Water Meadows------------------------------------------------18 Park Bottom and Sherrington Down -------------------------------------20 Sidbury Hill - a tale of two bird’s nests----------------------------------21 Oxford Botanic Gardens---------------------------------------------------22 Cholderton Estate-----------------------------------------------------------24 Plaitford and West Wellow Commons-----------------------------------25 Clatford Arboretum --------------------------------------------------------26 Fern Identification at Bentley Wood-------------------------------------27 A Co-Recorder for Wiltshire----------------------------------------------28 Scaly Male-ferns in Wiltshire---------------------------------------------29 Squinancy-wort-------------------------------------------------------------31 Editors Corner---------------------------------------------------------------31 Website: http://www.wiltsbotsoc.co.uk Saturday, 25 February late season for this walk. south- and westwards the 2012 Despite some mild weather, formation is more the snowdrops were at their conspicuously developed, The Snowdrop best and a lovely sight. forming a platform or 'bench' Walk at Erlestoke at the foot of the downs. It Woods Sonia began by telling us gets ever more prominent something of the history of towards Alfred’s Tower near Leaders: Rosemary the village and the manor Stourhead Gardens. At the Duckett and Sonia house: base of the tower the Upper Heywood Greensand reaches 260 Erlestoke is one of a string of metres above sea level so it spring-line villages which exceeds the local Chalk grew up near springs issuing Snowdrops - Becky Morris escarpment at White Sheet from the base of the Chalk Hill nearby (245m). escarpment. It had a Wiltshire's highest point, Tan medieval manor house which Hill, 295 metres, is on the was demolished and a new Chalk. house built in 1791. The park was landscaped and six lakes The reason for the hill- created which meant that the forming nature of the old village aligned north- greensand is its greater south was demolished and thickness in Wiltshire and the rebuilt on an east-west presence of sandstone alignment. There was also a (locally named the Shaftsbury carriage ride around the estate Sandstone) and beds of chert. with two bridges across the Chert is similar to flint, and holloway on what it now the geologists just use the term B road. In 1880 the church for pre chalk-aged 'flint'. The was demolished, like the old notable greenish tinge in the We were fortunate to have houses it spoilt the view of Upper Greensand is the good weather and a relatively the park from the house. A presence of the mineral new church was built near the Glauconite. This mineral park gates, so parishioners did not now have to go across the park. The old churchyard is still in place. There was a serious fire to Erlestoke house in the 1950s and it was partially demolished. It is now part of the prison. The walk was entirely on soils formed from the underlying Upper Greensand Formation, which forms a fringe at the foot of the chalk downs escarpment throughout Beech roots England. From Devizes Snowdrops - Becky in sandstone - Pat Woodruffe Page 1 Wiltshire Botanical Society Summer 2012 The geological highlight came as we approached the walled garden, and consisted of a deep cutting where the Shaftesbury Sandstone could be seen in vertical cliffs. It was soft greenish sandstone with ellipsoidal 'doggers' of harder material. Erosion of the sandstone had revealed the extensive root growth of several old beech trees. We tend to think of beech as shallow rooted but these were well anchored into their substrate. Rhynchostegium megapolitanum - Sharon Pilkington Our thanks to Sonia and to Rosemary for organising this contains compounds of Shaftesbury Sandstone. This splendid morning out and for Magnesium, Calcium, was the high point of the the excellent pub lunch which Potassium, Sodium, Iron and walk for Sharon who spotted many of us enjoyed Silica which have been Rhynchostegium afterwards. My thanks also 'rotted' from the parent- megapolitanum an to Sonia, Richard G, Becky mineral mica, in shallow uncommon moss. Her record and Sharon for their anoxic seawater. proved to be only the fifth in contributions to the report. VC8 and a new 10km square Pat Woodruffe The walk made its way up a record. valley cut by its small stream into the Greensand plateau. The OS map shows no spring, so it must rise in the pond, Wellhead Pond, with its many Roach or Rudd fish, which we walked past just before leaving the woods for the open fields. In fact the OS map doesn’t show the stream either! After allegedly dryer than normal conditions, this caused some debate among the party. At the highest part of the walk, in the fields, the soil was clayey and lots of moss was growing. The clay is mapped within the Boyne Hollow Richard Gosnell’s Chert, lying on top of the satellite view of the walk Summer 2012 Wiltshire Botanical Society Page 2 Saturday 17 March 2012 St Patrick's Day at Caen Hill Locks This flight of 29 locks, on the edge of Devizes, raises the Kennet and Avon Canal 239 feet in just two miles. It is an amazing feat of engineering, designed by John Rennie, and takes boaters at least half a day to complete. As part of the Diamond Becky Morris Jubilee celebrations, a 60- acre wood is being planted 2010! They were found Cinquefoil (Potentilla alongside, including disease- where shuffling feet would reptans), Garlic Mustard resistant elms. have caused disturbance. (Alliaria petiolata), Hedge Geranium (Geranium th March 17 found a group of The walk was a chance to pyrenaicum), Ground Ivy botanists parked near the top catch up with friends, clear (Glechoma hederacea) and of the flight, wondering what the cobwebs, and practice an occasional large plant that they would find at the identification of leaves. challenged the group, who beginning of the season. Not eventually agreed it was Both Water Figwort much in flower probably. probably Wild Turnip (Scrophularia auriculata) and (Brassica rapa ssp. Having phoned lunch orders a Comfrey species campestris). to the local pub, we set off. (Symphytum sp.) were identified from leaf and stem David told us about the Large hoary thistle rosettes shape. Often a plant is geology of the site – a pit of had us wondering, but it was identified by flower alone, Gault clay to the side of the concluded they were and as a result many of the path was probably the source probably Spear Thistle other interesting features are of materials used to puddle (Cirsium vulgare), despite missed. the pounds and make the their unusual appearance and bricks for canal construction. abundance. Flowers of Pond Sedge were appearing. Sweet violets Bluebell leaves led to a Further discussion followed (Viola odorata) were in discussion about natives, over a fine display of tiny flower adding a spot of hybrids, and the Spanish delicate white flowers with colour. Bluebell which has very wide deeply notched petals, leaves. growing in profusion along Leaves of Spotted Medick the edge of a lock. These (Medicago arabica) were We walked back up the other were Common Whitlowgrass found at the base of a hedge. side of the flight on the grass. (Erophila verna), this genus Leaves of Common Vetch By the locks we saw rosettes being called 'much (Vicia sativa) and Hemlock of Hoary Plantain (Plantago misunderstood' in Stace Water-Dropwort (Oenanthe media), leaves of Creeping Page 3 Wiltshire Botanical Society Summer 2012 crocata) were seen, and one Monday, 23 April fine solitary Oak. 2012 There were birds too – Fritillary Herring Gulls, Tufted Ducks, Survey, Coots, and a Mute Swan with last year's cygnets. Clattinger Farm In the large watery pounds at the side of the locks, we There we were in the noticed submerged plants – middle of a field on Stoneworts maybe. Clattinger Farm on a We missed Sharon's cold, wet April day expertise, but, feeling a bit with a metre-square cold, and the sky looking aluminium quadrats uncertain, we headed to counting Fritillaria Rowde for lunch, looking meleagris. The day forward to food and was organised by Malcolm's talk. Emma Rothero and Mandy Dyson of the Open squares. We had to count the Jane Brown University’s Floodplain plants and measure and count Meadows Project. We were their leaves in each of these there to monitor the success squares. With
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