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January 2007 Sussex Botanical Recording Society Newsletter No. 63 http://www.sussexflora.org.uk January 2007 President’s Message Secretary’s Note Dates for your Diary At the autumn meetings the New Flora of Sussex Committee reported the good progress of the recording Saturday 10th March 2007 for the Flora. At the November Get-together Alan and The Annual General Meeting will be held at 2.00 pm at Paul had prepared a summary of this progress, together Staplefield Village Hall followed by a showing of with helpful instructions and requests for the next members’ slides and finishing with tea and biscuits. stages of recording. Their text is published in this The hall will be available from 1.30 pm. Nominations newsletter, and we hope that all members are now for new committee members or officers, agreed by the looking forward to further recording early in the New nominee, should be sent to the Secretary a week before Year, and with renewed enthusiasm. As we go to press the A.G.M. the number of records in the New Flora database is 160,500. Congratulations and thanks to the Recorders Saturday 3rd November 2007 and to all who have helped to achieve this encouraging The Autumn Get-together will be held in Staplefield total in three years. Village Hall. The doors will be open from 10.00 am and the meeting will start at 10.30 am. There will be Members tell me how much they enjoy the SBRS and reports of field meetings and interesting records. the friendly contacts with other Sussex botanists and Please remember to bring a packed lunch; tea or coffee those interested in local wild flowers. For this the and biscuits will be available. Members are invited to twice-yearly Newsletter is a vital link between bring slides to show in the afternoon, books and plants members, and we warmly thank Frances, the editor, for sale, and any items of interest or specimens for and Arthur, the producer and distributor, for their hard display. work, and for the pleasing publication which we all receive each January and May. Rita Hemsley You will have noticed that we now have a logo, newly published on the heading of this Newsletter. It has In This Issue been designed and drawn by Vanessa Stern, and the President’s Message 1 Committee members are very impressed by the quality Secretary’s Note 1 of Vanessa’s design – as I am sure that you will be too. West Sussex Field Meeting Reports 2 East Sussex Field Meeting Reports 3 When a logo was first suggested, Phyteuma orbiculare (Round-headed Rampion) was unanimously chosen as Missing Mistletoe 5 the appropriate flower. Known in our two counties as Winter Recording 5 the Pride of Sussex, this plant is nationally scarce and Treasurer’s Note 5 declining, but still has good populations on Sussex Obituary: Francis Rose 5 downland. The late Francis Rose spoke of the Notes on the identification of some ‘extraordinary abundance of this species on the South Downs of Sussex’. As you can imagine, it was not the difficult species 7 easiest flower to draw and convert into a logo design! Officers of the Society 8 We have heard that this took 15 months, and send New Flora - draft species accounts 9 thanks to Vanessa for her time, and appreciation of her Progress towards the New Flora 11 achievement. Field Meetings 2007 13 Good wishes to all for 2007. Mary Briggs Newsletter Editor: Frances Abraham, The Old School, Ebernoe, Petworth, West Sussex, GU28 9LD. Email: [email protected] 1 Field Meetings 2006: Reports Tony, all of whom showed superhuman tolerance of their leader’s lust for speed and largely refrained from any semblance of gloating as they pointed out all the West Sussex VC13 species he had missed in his misguided haste to cover by Nick Sturt as much ground as possible. And lo! it came to pass that the dispersed bands did return at length and did th exchange notes, as they ate of their packed luncheons Star Copse, Harting 16 April in the shade of verdant shrubs. Each tetrad yielded Six inches of snow on the county border near around 150 species and each group had found some Tunbridge Wells a few days previously exemplified special plants, such as Lathyrus nissolia (Grass the tardiness of the season. Easter also late – so late Vetchling) and Sorbus torminalis. A more sociable that neither the leader nor the field convenor had afternoon followed as we united to attack a fourth realised that this first meeting fell on Easter Sunday. tetrad which included some interesting woodland with Having hastily postponed her family Easter egg hunt, Carex pallescens (Pale Sedge). The day proved Dawn led a party of fifteen into the woods to discover extremely productive in terms of records (in excess of what seasonal plants had put their heads above the 600) as well as extremely enjoyable. parapet. Forestry tracks tested the skills of vegetative diagnosis, for example Carex strigosa unmasked by Heyshott and Ambersham Commons 9th June Frances through the ‘tram-lines’ along the leaf blades. Gems from the word Go, as Bruce directed us to scour And so into Star Copse to wander over carpets of the bareish sandy ground around the cars for the likes Adoxa moschatellina (Moschatel), Anemone nemorosa of Aira caryophyllea (Silver Hair-grass), Myosotis (Wood Anemone) and Allium ursinum (Ramsons). discolor (Changing Forget-me-not) and Trifolium Much Viola reichenbachiana (Early Dog-violet), but subterraneum (Subterranean Clover). He then led us scarcely any V riviniana (Common Dog-violet) yet. by devious ways over Ambersham Common to survey Lathraea squamaria (Toothwort) proved to be the bog bearing the tiny caltrops of Carex echinata (Star most appreciated plant here, and there were many Sedge) and damp heath studded with the glistening spikes peering pale-pinkly above the mats of spring tongues of Drosera intermedia (Oblong-leaved green. The scent of the flowers could be described as Sundew). Down to a stream area with woodland and ‘sweet vanilla with fungal overtones’, although I may more wet species such as Dryopteris carthusiana be recalling a modest bottle of Egyptian Riesling. (Narrow Buckler-fern), then on to a forest ride where th water seeped out and a hands-and-knees search Roman Woods and Oakwood 20 May produced Anagallis tenella (Bog Pimpernel) and the Unseasonal lows rolling in from the Atlantic, first leaves of Radiola linoides (Allseed); with newspapers talking of a ‘monsoon weekend’… yet Scutellaria minor (Lesser Skullcap) growing we somehow this joint meeting with our Surrey confrères suspected the presence of Isolepis setacea (Bristle escaped all but the merest sprinkle, at the beginning as Club-rush), which Mike Shaw obligingly found. And Arthur marshalled his troops. Mud in Roman Woods: so, knocked out more by the plants than the heat, lunch we slipped past a profusion of good sylvan species, in the shade. After which calcicoles, including including Adoxa, Galium odoratum (Woodruff), Blackstonia perfoliata (Yellow-wort), along the Luzula forsteri (Southern Woodrush), Milium effusum embankment of the defunct railway, which was formed (Wood Millet), while individuals with their eyes not largely from chalk spoil from the cuttings around West scouring the ground for herbaceous specimens and Dean. Mike again produced an ace in the form of a footholds managed to recognise both Hawthorn species sedge which we at length concluded to be Carex and their hybrid. Lunch near or indeed inside the muricata subsp. lamprocarpa (Prickly Sedge). There Scarlett Arms (I recall with fondness the Harvey’s was also the opportunity to pay homage to the leaves of Sussex that Sophie so kindly bought me). The Wahlenbergia (Ivy-leaved Bellflower), introduced on a afternoon was spent in Surrey, happily rambling in the damp roadside early in the 20th Century by friends of woods that surround the church of Oakwood. Trees Rev Edgell. were high on the agenda, with Rod demonstrating Quercus x rosacea and our Surrey leaders auditing the Alan reckoned that the total number of species was Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service Tree). The finale was 261, probably a Society record. In a former life, Bruce a warm welcome from the owners of a delightful trained as a chef: the fifteen botanists who experienced garden ablaze with Azaleas, whose lawn was dotted the day will surely not disagree with me when I with spikes of Orchis morio (Green-winged Orchid). describe the meeting as a gourmet feast of flora. rd TQ11: Ashington and environs 3 June Kithurst area 22nd July The Venerable Knapp had spent many solitary hours in The Roman poet Horace warned good folk to avoid the his cell planning the day’s perambulations and it was company of sinners lest they become collateral damage time well spent indeed. The thirteen pilgrims who in a punishing bolt from Jupiter. As lightning crashed converged on Ashington were divided into three about us and we hastened to the shelter of our cars, I groups, equipped with maps and recording cards, and tried to guess which of the ten SBRS members had instructed to go forth and multiply the records for this incurred his wrath. Our mission, to record the relatively unvisited 10km square. The author found apparently unloved TQ01Q tetrad on top of the Downs, himself in excellent company – Rita, Dawn, Ernie and 2 had been abandoned after an hour and 99 species. East Sussex VC14 Soaked and with further electrical activity heading in, the surprisingly merry band dispersed, leaving me by Pat Donovan and Rita Hemsley alone with my thoughts. I was pretty certain by then th that it was Beryl.
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