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BSBI News No. 26 December1980 B.S.B.I.NEWS No.26 Editedby EDGARD. WIGGINS CowpastureFarm, Felixstowe, Suffolk IPl l 9RD WY w * Petasitesalbus (see p. l9) del. Colin Ormerod o 1980 ADMINISTRATION Addresses HON. GEN. SEC.(General Enquiries) Mrs. M. Briggs,White Cottage, Slinfold. HORSHAM.West Susses RH13 7RG. HON. TREASURER.(Payrnent of Subscriptionsand change of address). Mr. M. Walpole,68Outwoods Road, LOUGHBOROUGH,I*ics. LEI I 3LY. (Pleasequote membership number on correspondenceconcerning membership or subscriptions). HON. FIELD SEC. MissL. Farrell,N.C.C. P.O. Box 6, (Informationon RarePlants. Field Meetings etc) Godwin House,George Street, HUNTINGDONPEI8 6BU. PERMANENTWORKING I'O}II\IITTEES FOR I98O 8I CO-ORDINATING J.F.M. Cannon,lHon. Sec) Dr. P.E- Brandham(to I-10.80' D.R.DonaLl liom].10.80/ Dr R.K.Brumnlitt,Mrs. R.M. Hamilton. Dr F.H.Perring, Miss J. Martin. CONSERVATION Dr P.E.Brandham (Hon. Secto 1.10.80.)D.R. Donald(Hon. Sec. .fntm 1.10.80.)E. Milne-Redhead,P.J. Wanstall,S.B. Evans, Wales,A.C. Jermy,Dr S.M.Walters, Miss R.M. Hadden,Miss J. Martin.Dr S.R.J.Woodell. Miss L. Farrell,Dr A.J. Silverside, Scotland,Dr P.M.Wade, Miss l.F. Gravestttck,Dr F.H.Perring, Dr tl.A. McAllister, F.N. llaynes British Lichen Society,C.D. Brickell, Royal HorticulturalSociety,D( D.E.G. Irvine,Brrrrslt PhycologicalSociety, Dr P.D. Coker, British Bryobgical Society. MEETINGS MissJ. Martin,(Hon. Sec.)MissL. Farrell,(Hon. Field Sec.)Dr N.K.B. Robson,Mrs. A. l,ee,Miss E. Rich. J.M. Mullin,Mrs. LJ.M.S.Preston, Dr J.L. Mason,S.A. Renvoise,E.J. Adams, T.H. Blackstock,Dr H.J.M.Bowen, Mrs. J.M. Mullin,Dr P.M. Wade,A.L. Grenfell. PUBLICATIONS Dr R.K. Brummitt.([{on.Sec./ Dr S.M.L.den, Dr N.K.B.Robson. Dr C.A. Stace,Dr D.L. Wigston,D.H. Kent, E.D. Wiggins,P.S. Green,Dr F.ll. Perring,J.F.M. Cannon, A.O. Chater, Dr P.F.Yeo, E.l. Clement,A.C. Jermy, Dr S.L.Jury. RECORDS Dr F.H. Perring(Hon. Sec.)Dr W.T.Stearn, E.C. Wallace, D.E. Allen, E.G. Philp, Dr I.K. Ferguson,R.J. Pankhurst,Miss E. Ni l:nrhna, Irellnd,J. Bevan,R.G. Ellis.Wales, Dr A.J. Silver- side. Scotland,P.J.O. Trist, Dr S.M. Eden,Dr Q.O.N. Kay. T.F. Medd,D.J. Mc(losh, T.C.E. Wells, D.A. Wells from 21.10.80. co{pted. M. BusbyBritish Pteridobgical 9rciety. The President, Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Gen. Sec. are ex officio members of all the above Committees. NOTICE TO MEMBERS Nominations ior vacancieson Council, in writing, signedby two nrembersof the Society and accompaniedby the written consent of the candidateto serue,if elected,should be sent to the Hon. GerreralSecretary, White Cottage,Slinfold, Htrrsham,West Sussex,to arriveBEFORE FEBRLIARY lst 1981. Mrry Briggs,Hon. Cen- Sec HON. GEN. SECRETARY'SNOTES WELL DESERVED Our congratulationsto G.LI. Lucaswho was recentlyawarded the O.B.E.for his work for plant cortservation.Gren is Deputy Keeperof the Herbariurnat the Royal BotanicGardens, Kew, where as Secretaryof the IUCN ThreatenedPlants Committee he hasbeen responsible for the basiclisting of threatenedplants of the world - the only areasnow reurainingto bestarted for thisare S.E. Asia, the PacificIslands and S. America; He is too, co-authorof the IUCN PlantRed Data Book. Gren has been closely associated with the plant conservationmovement for manyyears;in the pasthe servedas a Secretary of tlreCouncil for Nature.and he is a Trusteeof theWorld Wildlife Fund U.K. llis work has involvedmucli travelling,lecturing across the world, and writing many paperson cclnservation;through his myriad activitieshe has long been in the forefront of the battle for plantsand is well known to all who areworking for their protectionfor the l'utu re. Congratulationsalso to R.D. Meikle,who, in Septemberwas one of the first to receive the Kew Medal.This new awardis to be givenannually by the Trusteesof the Gardens Trust, to thosewhose achievernents, contributions or serviceto the Gardensat Kew or WakehurstPlace are consideredof outstandingmerit and deservingof specialhonour. DesmondMeikle's citation is "for his interestand involvementin the Gardens'living collections,fbr his contributionto the nranysocieties based within Kew,as a botanistof rvorldrenown, and as a true friend and colleaguetcl the many who havesought his help and adviceover the years".His'help and advice'has been freely given to manyB.S.B.l. members,especially as a Refereefor that mostdifficult groupSalx, andas the authorof a B.S.B.l.llandbook on Willowsand Poplars,to the publicationof which in the not too distantfuture, we look forwardwith eageranticipation. HOMESECRETARY ANNOUNCES NEW THREAT TO WILDLIFE The Rt. Hon. WilliamWhitelaw announced this week the Government'sintention to relax the licensingrequirements for the useof metaldetectors. Dr. F.H. Perring,General Secretaryof theSociety for the Promotionof NatureConservation, said today ( 17thJ uly) "We would be dismayedif this leadsto further uncrrntrolleduse of rnetaldetecturs. Their misusealready causes concern to the Societyand otherconservation organisations facedwith increasingdamage to their naturereserves." The SPNChas receivedreports from severalof its 42 associatedNature Conservation Trusts,of damagecaused by metal detectorusers digging holes to unearthfinds. Rare orchidshave beenuprooted and in one caselarge numbers of insectswere lost when a sitewas burnt off sothat a detectorcould be usedrnore easily. The rernovalor disturbance of plant cover and topsoil from an area,however small, will resultin irnportantplant communitiesbeing disrupted and cause a 'knockon' effecton aninal populations. The SPNCand tlie Trustsfear that more extensivedanrage will be causedto nature reservesand other importantwildlite sites unless the useof rnetaldetectors on these specialareas is broughtunder statutory control as is the caseat presentfor archaeological sites. The Societywill continue1o press lirr adequateprotection for vulnerablewildlife sites ['romthe rnisuseof metaldetectors while continuins to moniturthe imoactol this new pressureon thewildlif'e of thiscountry. Emigrants 'Aliens With our interest in these and Adventives'very evident n B.S.B.I. ly'ewsit is perhapstimely to rememberthose also travellingin the oppositedirection. The Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens2 No. 2 May, 1980 p. 195-220publishes a paperby K.M. Kloot, Dr Richard Schomburgk'sNaturalised I'leeds (1879/. This reprint of the original with explanatory details lists over 150 specieswhich had arrived in Australia before 1879, mostly from Europe, and very many must have come from Britain, e.g.:- 'Shepherd's "CapsellaBursa-pastoris (in English in the original text as Burse) . in the colony for at least thirty years and have spreadwith rapidity especiallyin abandoned placeson roadsides";"Fumaia officinalis, . now a troublesomeweed in gardens". Survivors It is not only in Britain that an announcementin print that a speciesis extinct can be followed by reports of its rediscovery--as wilh Bromus interruptus and Bupleurum falcatum; and more locally in CambridgeshireLuzula sylvatica.I.U.C.N. reports from Canberrathat George Chippendaiesent news of Eucalyptus steedmonii(described as extinct in the I.U.C.N. Plant Red Data Book), buJ now refound inWestern Australia, although previously for some years it had been "searchedfor most specificallyby a number of collectorson severalexpeditions without success".Similarly, David Bramwell reports the rediscovery of Seneciohadrosomus in the Canary Islands,after l0 years in which it could not be found and was thought to be extinct. The ThreatenedPlants 'extinct' Committeeat Kew askshopefully "which specieswill be next?" Fellow travellers Plantilnsectrelationships feature from time to time in thesenotes, and I was interested in PaulWhalley's paper in Oryx XY: No. 3 April, 1980p. 2734,on insectintroductions in which he describesrecent arrivalson waterweedsbrought in for aquaria.We have new recordsof aquaticplant introductionsin pondsand waterways,Elodea spp. for example-- and Paul tells me that recentinsect'aliens'include four speciesof dragonfly,onecaddis fly and six aquatic moths, all new to Britain. As he says,what about smallercreatures which may well also be comhg in with the aquaticplants, unseen and asyet unrecorded? Could therebe a future human healthhazard? Italian nature trail At the 1979 B.S.B.L Meetingin Northern Italy, a party of Geologystudents from Trieste Universitywere settingup a MountianNature Trail asa memorialto one of their students tragicallykilled by a fall there the previousyear; shehad, they told us,introduced them to the beauty and fascination of the mountain flowers which she herself had loved. Through the N.C.C. Librarian we were able last year to send requestedadvice en the settingup of a Nature Trail, and this year we receivednotice of the Inaugurationof the Sentiero NaturalisticoTuiana Weissat Passodel Pura in July. If any memberis in the area (near Ampezzo Carnico, Udine) next summer,interest and support for this first Nature Trail in Northern Italv would be welcome. Vascula Miss de Vesian's vasculumwas snappedup by Clive Lovatt of the Dep't of Botany, University of Bristol who is collectingcritical material, including Rubus spp. for the Flora of the Avon Gorge.A few hours later, a requestfor a vasculumcarne from Sarah Websterof the Plant Scienceslaboratories, University of Reading.Isthere still a vasculum owner whosevasculum is perhapslying unusedin the attic . ? 4 Weedseedlings N.E:.R.C.news journal reports that the N.E.R.C.Unit of ComparativePlant Ecologyat the University of Sheffield is currently assemblinga collection of photographsof the seedlingsof most of our native speciesand many commonaliens, and is planninga supplementof I ,000 speciesto R.J. Chancellor'suseful booklet The ldentilicatlon of lUeedSeedlings of Farm and Garden(which givesa full descriptionof 162 species). C. for N leaflets Nlrs.Susan Joy, who was Secretaryof the Councilfor Natureuntil it disbanded,and who nowworksfor CoEnCo (and is still the Editor of Habitat)has moved back to the officesat the Zoo.'C. forN.' leafletsas listed in B.S.B.I.News 24 p.4, can now be obtainedeither from CoEnCo: 29, GrevilleStreet, l-ondon, ECI N8AX, or from CoEnCo:Zoological Gardens, Regents Park,London, NWI 4RY.
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