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BSBI News No. 96 B'SBINEWS April 2004 Edited by No. 96 Leander Wolstenholme Gwynn Ellis 1 cm Terminal flowers r----t 1 cm Leaf r----t . r----t 1 cm " 10mm 3cm Inflorescence Single flower Rachis section Astilbe rubra x A. chinensis del. Mrs lM. Millar © 2004 (see page 48) ADMINISTRATION AND IMPORTANT ADDRESSES PRESIDENT Mr Richard Pryce Trevethin, School Road, Pwll, L1anelli, Carmarthenshire, SA15 4AL Te!. & Fax: 01554775847; email: [email protected] HON. GENERAL SECRETARY (General Enquiries) BSBI clo Dept. Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD Te!.: 0207 942 5002 HON. TREASURER (All financial matters except Subscriptions) Mr Michael Braitbwaite 19 Buccleuch Street, Hawick, Roxburghshire, TD9 OHL Te!': 01450-372267; Fax: 01450-373591 BSBI NEWS RECEIVING EDITOR Dr Leander Wolstenholme clo Botany Section, Liverpool Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EN Tel: 0151 4784278; Fax: 0151 4784350; email: [email protected] BSBI NEWS GENERAL EDITOR Mr Gwynn Ellis Address, etc., as below MEMBERSIDP SECRETARY (Payment of Subs and changes of address) Mr Gwynn Ellis 41 Marlborough Road, Roath, Cardiff CF23 5BU Te!. & Fax: 029-2049-6042; email: [email protected] (Please quote membership number on all correspondence; it is in the List of Members in Year Book 2003 ar 2004, and on the address label afyour mailings). HON. FIELD SECRETARY (Enquiries on Field Meetings) Mrs Jane Croft 12 Spaldwick Road, Stow Longa, Huntingdon, Cambs. PE28 OTL Email: [email protected] BSBI PROJECT MANAGER Mr David Pearman Algiers, Feock, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6RA Te!.: 01872 863388; email: DPeannan4@ao!.com BSBI CO-ORDINATOR Mr Alex Lockton 66 North Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2JL Te!. & Fax: 01743 343789; Mobile: 0585 700368; email: [email protected] BSBI VOLUNTEERS OFFICER MrBabEllis 11 Havelock Road, Norwich, NR2 3HQ Te!': 01603 662260; email: [email protected] WATSONIA RECEIVING EDITOR Mr Martin N. Sanford clo SBRC, Ipswich Museum, High Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3QH Te!.: 01473433547; fax: 01473433558; email: [email protected] RESEARCH FUND APPLICATIONS Mrs Sarah Whild 66 North Street, Shrewshury, Shropshire, SY1 2JL Te!. & Fax: 01743 343789; Mobile: 0585 700368; email: [email protected] BSBI YEAR BOOK (changes and corrections) Mr Gwyuu Ellis Address, etc., as above BSBl PUBLICATIONS Mr & Mrs Jon Atkins clo Summerfield Books, Main Street, Brough, Cumbria CA17 4AX Te!.: 017683 41577; Fax: 017683 41687; email: [email protected] BSBI WEB SITE ADDRESS www.bsbLarg.uk CONTRIBUTIONS INTENDED FOR BSBINEWS97 should reach the Receiving Editor before AUGUST 1st 2004 Important Notices 3 IMPORTANT NOTICES FROM THE PRESIDENT It's all systems go for the Local Change scheme. Bob Ellis is now well settled into his Volunteers' Officer role and is now on top of things. He continues to press for last year's outstanding records to be submitted, where possible using MapMate, but records in any form are just as acceptable. This season sees the final push to complete recording in all the sample tetrads and Bob asks that records are submitted regularly so that a logjam does not build-up at the end of the season, as funding for his post runs-out at the end of the year. I am very grateful to Martin Rand for his invaluable assistance in back-room computer duties. Among other tasks, he has been undertaking development of the BSBI MapMate hub so that the Local Change records received are able to be processed with a minimum of manual intervention. But I anticipate that the assessment of the change in status of each taxon, between the 1986 Monitoring Scheme and the current scheme, which is a vital aspect of Local Change, will still require a considerable amount of manpower in collating the county returns to produce a national picture. And please don't forget that every member can participate in the scheme, whether at home or especially if you are planning a holiday to a remote area. You can visit the BSBI web site (www.bsbLorg.uk) to download up-to-date lists of records for the relevant Local Change tetrad. Better still, contact the appropriate Vice-County Recorder, who will be able to direct you to those areas most in need of attention. You will then be able to send your additions to him/her or submit them over the web. Of course, there is much else of interest on the web-site, such as access to the BSBI Database and the Threatened Plants Database and links to plant identification sites and herbaria, as well as general information on the Society. I hope you will be able to take full advantage of the varied programme of field meetings during the year and I particularly extend this wish to new members who may feel nervous about attending their first meeting. I am certain that you will be made very welcome and I'm sure that you will have fun, as well as learning a good-deal into the bargain. John Swindells has volunteered to co-ordinate the wishes and aspirations of new members to ensure that membership is rewarding both to them and to the Society. I imagine that he will also seek the assistance of established members locally, who might be in a position to assist new members with plant identification - in my experience this is one of the greatest pleasures of attending BSBI field meetings. I also hope that the new slot planned for future editions of BSBI News dealing with identification hints and tips, will also be of value in this respect. On a personal note, I hope that the Carmarthenshire recording week will be fine and not coincide, as in 2003, with the only soaking week of the sununer! Finally, let me wish you a rewarding start to the field season and that you are soon able to complete your Local Change recording as well as all the other botanical activities you have planned. But above all, enjoy your botanising and I look forward to seeing you at the AGM in Kew or at other meetings during the year. RICHARD PRYCE, President DEVELOPMENT OFFICER The Society has been involved in further discussions with the Country Agencies over the need for this post, and for their support. We have reached the stage (late March 2004), when they all say that are budgeting to support this, but nothing has yet been signed with any of them. Nonetheless, since this is the last chance to contact members before the autunm, and we are told that an agreement is meant to be concluded this very soon, we are risking asking any member who is interested to register with me, since the post will be nationally advertised! I would prefer a letter, rather than more emails! 4 Important Notices We are well aware that we circulated an earlier attempt to the membership (around 18 months ago) and can only apologise that that did not lead to anything. This round is more solidly based, but who knows what will finally evolve? We have drafted a job description, as follows. The heart of it is to set up a Rare Plant Unit, supported, we hope, by a local officer in each country, and working with BRC Monkswood and with our own Threatened Plants database and the records collecting procedures we already have with the V.c. Recorders and Local Change. We have a draft of how this might evolve, that we have put together with the help of English Nature, but of course that is only a draft. Development Officer: draft job description The Executive Secretary and Development Officer will initially be a three-year post designed to provide the Society with a full-time officer who will be responsible to the Society's Executive Committee, and answerable to ajoint Steering Committee of the Society's officers and representatives of its sponsors. The principal tasks for this post will be: To take forward, implement and review the Society's adopted general Development Plan in agree­ ment with the Society and its funders. To work in liaison with key BSBI voluntary officers and potential funding bodies to produce an agreed plan to maintain and enhance the Society's Data Management activities, including the development of a Rare Plant Unit, and to seek funding for its implementation. To work with the Society's developing Education Committee and its Executive Committee to produce a costed Project Plan in support of the Society's educational, publicity and outreach activities; and to seek funding for its implementation. To assist the Society's voluntary Officers to integrate the work of the Society and improve its operational capability, especially through assisting the Hon. Gen. Secretary in the fulfilment of his/her duties, and through pro actively harnessing the assistance of other volunteers within the Society. • To assist in activities in support of membership involvement with the Society and its activities, especially with arrangements for conferences, exhibitions and publicity. To work with outside agencies and other organisations in support of the Society's work, through attending meetings and representing the Society as necessary and in liaison with its voluntary Officers. To report on progress against agreed objectives to the Society's Executive Committee and Council; and to the Development Plan Steering Committee as required. We have not decided where the post might be based, but there has been talk of an offer from English Nature for space in one of their offices. DAVID PEARMAN, Algiers, Feock, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6RA INTERACTIVE FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES-INVITATION TO LAUNCH The Linnean Society of London, ETI (Amsterdam) and the authors have much pleasure in inviting all members of the BSBI to the official launch of the Interactive Flora ofthe British Isles, which will take place at the Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London on Thursday 27 May at 15.30 hr.
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