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BSBI News September 2015 No. 130 Edited by Trevor James & Gwynn Ellis ISSN 0309-930X Sorbus herefordensis (flower spray), Doward, Sorbus domestica (Service-tree) at Lancaut N.R., Herefordshire (v.c.36). Photo D. Green Gloucs. (v.c.34). Photo M. Hampton © 2009 © June 2013 (see p. 12) (see p. 30) Rumex acetosa ssp. hibernicus, Predannack Hordeum marinum on roadside, A14, Northants Wollas, Cornwall (v.c.1). Photo F. Rumsey (v.c.32). Photo P. Stroh © 2015 (see p. 29) © April 2015 (see p. 10) CONTENTS Important Notices Orchid conservation in South Yorkshire From the President..................I. Denholm 2 ...................................E. & M. Linney 43 From the Company Secretary....C. Lovatt 3 Huperzia selago......................M. Wilcox 44 Annual Report and accounts................ 3 Diary for 2015......................C. Metherell 44 BSBI List of Members......................... 3 Adventives & Aliens News, 6...M. Berry 45 BSBI AGM........................................... 3 Francoa sp. found in Dartmouth, Devon New Journal of Botany moves to on-line (v.c.3)...................................P. Pullen 48 publication.............................L. Marsh 4 Botanical Crossword 26...........Cruciada 49 2015 BSBI Photographic Competition Notices................................................. 50-52 ...........................................J. McIntosh 4 Beginners’ workshops.............F. Anstey 50 Notes from the Editors T. James & G. Ellis 5 The launch of the Burren Botany Bubble Notes...................................................... 7-44 ..................................M. Bermingham 51 Hybrid between Atriplex prostrata and Requests & Offers.............................. 52-53 A. patula.............................J. Richards 7 Recording Pink, Blue and Hybrid Water- Taraxacum ciliare new to Britain speedwells..........................M. Wilcox 52 ............................................J. Richards 9 Assistance with digitising field data It’s hairy on the margins! - two more Data- ...............................................P. Stroh 52 Deficient taxa to check for F. Rumsey 10 The flora of Hawick Burgh Juncus inflexus × J. conglomeratus ....................................M. Braithwaite 52 ...........................................M. Wilcox 11 Request for UK material of Allium species Sorbus of the Doward..............D. Green 12 and Ficaria verna.........M. Duchoslav 53 ‘Digitised’ herbaria – where past and Book Notes.........................J. Edmondson 54 present meet ?......................J. Hewitt 16 Correction to The flora of Oxfordshire Runnymede - a botanical perspective (1998)...................................J. Killick 55 ............................................A. Sankey 17 Recorders and Recording.................. 56-57 Higher Education and the future of field Panel of Referees and Specialists.....J. Ison 56 biology skills: too much gloom? Panel of Vice-county Recorders P. Stroh 56 ....................R. Goulder & G.W. Scott 23 Recording Juncus gerardii and Saving field biology skills from extinction: J. compressus.....................M. Wilcox 57 a further comment............J. Richards 25 Obituary Notes........................................ 58 Mibora minima in the north-west of Scotland, Notes from the Officers..................... 58-64 on Baleshare Island, (v.c.110) Hon. Gen. Sec.....................C. Metherell 58 P.A. Smith, O. Pescott & S.J. Bungard 26 Scottish Officer....................J. McIntosh 59 Hazels continued – additional information Welsh Officer.........P. Spencer-Vellacott 60 ...........................................M. Wilcox 28 Publicity & Outreach Officer...L. Marsh 61 Hordeum marinum in Northamptonshire Key to cover photo of BSBI News 129... 62 ...............................................P. Stroh 29 Database officer.................T. Humphrey 63 Sorbus domestica in the Wye Valley Hon. Field Secretary.............J. Shanklin 64 ........................................M. Hampton 30 BSBI Atlas 2020 Pollination of Platanthera orchids Coordinator’s Corner.................P. Stroh 65 .............................T. & A. Swainbank 34 Solution & crib for Crossword 26......... 67 Foraging in the Anthropocene Deadline for News 131............................. 67 ....................................M. O'Donovan 40 Administration and Important Addresses 68 The case for responsible foraging: by a practising forager...Mouseinthewoods 41 2 Important Notices – From The President IMPORTANT NOTICES From The President IAN DENHOLM, 4 High Firs Crescent, Harpenden, Herts., AL5 1NA; (01582 760180; 07974 112993; [email protected]) The summer seems to have sped by, marked Like me, many of you will by now have by prolonged spells of indifferent weather. taken possession of the long-awaited I trust this did not quell members’ enthusi- Hybrid flora of the British Isles. It is a asm for field work, and that as many of you majestic work and for the first time we have as possible were able to participate in events detailed morphological descriptions of based around recording, training, or simply hybrids, both sporadic and persistent, along visiting great habitats and the plants they with comprehensive accounts of their support. Our meetings aimed at strengthen- occurrence. Huge congratulations go to ing Atlas recording appear to have been Clive Stace, Chris Preston and David well attended and I look forward to reading Pearman for steering this to fruition (a state the reports published in the next BSBI Year that many hybrids fail to reach!). Contin- Book. I was fortunate enough to spend a uing on the theme of publications, this issue week on the northernmost of the Shetland of BSBI News announces important changes Isles in great company and we covered a lot to the way that New Journal of Botany will of ground – some very rewarding and some be distributed in future years. This reflects less so, but with botanical monotony a much wider ongoing transformation in the relieved by being dive-bombed by skuas mode of scientific publishing, and also and fantastic views of Red-throated Divers coincides with our publisher to date (Maney in breeding plumage on remote lochans. Publishing) having been acquired by the The Annual Summer Meeting in the north Taylor & Francis Group, who have of Ireland in June involved a lot of Irish expressed strong support for the continua- Vice-county Recorders and an impressive tion and promotion of NJB over years to number of younger delegates and less come. One challenge is to increase the experienced botanists keen to be introduced visibility of and citation rates for NJB to the rigours of completing recording papers through inclusion in the largest bibli- cards, although fewer members from ographic databases, including ‘Scopus’. mainland UK attended than we had hoped. The combined Annual Exhibition I thank John Faulkner and Louise Marsh for Meeting and AGM returns this year to the taking on much of the organisation and the Natural History Museum in London and I University of Coleraine for hospitality, hope to meet up with many of you there. As despite a faulty fire alarm in our accommo- always, we urge members to offer exhibits dation block leading to an impromptu relating to all aspects of botany, and will 6 a.m. gathering of inhabitants outside the have presentations covering field meetings, building! In keeping with a developing as well as current and forthcoming BSBI tradition of alternating the location of the projects. This event will mark the end of ASM between countries, plans are my Presidency after a fulfilling and underway to base the 2016 event at the rewarding period of two and a half years. I Field Studies Council’s field station at look forward to congratulating and offering Blencathra in the Lake District, details to be full support to my successor, who will be circulated at the end of the year. appointed at the AGM. Important Notices – From The Company Secretary 3 From the Company Secretary CLIVE LOVATT, 57 Walton Road, Shirehampton, Bristol, BS11 9TA; (Tel.: 01173 823 577; 07513 458 921; [email protected]) BSBI Annual Report and Accounts 31st BSBI AGM and revision of Articles of March 2015 Association The Society’s 31st March 2015 Annual A notice of the second AGM of the Botani- Report and Accounts were approved by the cal Society of Britain and Ireland which is Board of Trustees and signed by our to be held on Saturday 28th November 2015 Independent Examiners, WMT of St at the Natural History Museum in London Albans, on 9th September 2015. Their accompanies this mailing of BSBI News. report was unmodified. A PDF copy may The Rules of the Botanical Society of the be obtained from the link on the home page British Isles were replaced by the Articles of our website. Paper copies will be availa- of Association of the Botanical Society of ble at the AGM on Saturday 28th November Britain and Ireland, a company limited by 2015 but any member who requires a copy guarantee. In the course of time, certain should send a request to the Company Articles were found not to be working quite Secretary. as we might have wanted. Principal Summarised financial statements have amongst these was the realisation that as also been prepared, with a Treasurer’s’ Council is not a governance body member- Report, and these are included in the Annual ship of Council can include, without Review which accompanies this mailing of election or co-option, office bearers or BSBI News. delegates of the society’s committees ex officio. Whilst amending the relevant BSBI List