BSBINews January 2006 No. 101 Edited by Leander Wolstenholm & Gwynn Ellis Delosperma nubigenum at Petersfield, photo © Christine Wain 2005 Illecebrum verticillatum at Aldershot, photo © Tony Mundell 2005 CONTENTS EDITORIAL. .............................................................. 2 Echinochloa crus-galli (Cockspur) on FROM THE PRESIDENT .....................R ..1. Gornall 3 roadsides in S. England.............. 8o.1. Leach 37 NOTES Egeria densa (Large-flowered Waterweed) Splitting hairs - the key to vegetative - in flower in Surrey ...... .1. David & M Spencer 39 Identification.................................. .1. Poland 4 A potential undescribed Erigeron hybrid Sheathed Sedge (Carex vaginata): an update ...................................... R.M Burton 39 on its status in the Northern Pennines Oxalis dillenii: a follow-up .............1. Presland 40 R. Corner,.1. Roberts & L. Robinson 6 Some interesting alien plants in V.c. 12 A newly reported site for Gentianella anglica .................... .................... A. Mundell 42 (Early Gentian) in S. Hampshire ..... M Rand 8 'Stipa arundinacea' in Taunton, S. Somerset White Wood-rush (Luzula luzuloides) (v.c. 5) ........................................ 80.1. Leach 43 naturalised on Great Dun Fell, Street-wise 'aliens' in Taunton (v.c. 5) northern Pennines, Cumbria........ .R. Corner 9 ......................................... 80.1. Leach 44 Plant Rings ..................................D. MacIntyre 10 The Plantsman - a botanical journal Observations on acid grassland flora of ................................................ .E ..1. Clement 45 Thornhill, Southampton................ .P. Budd 11 Sisymbrium polyceratium, an urban casual in A 'Lizard' clover in South Devon Birmingham .............................. M Poulton 45 ..................................... R.E.N. Smith 12 The Rise and Fall of Veronicajiliformis Urban/Suburban Ferns ................. c..1. Bruxner 13 (Slender Speedwell) .......... ..... R.M Henson 46 Spindles and Dogwood trees .......... .1.E. Oliver 13 REpORTS OF FIELD MEETINGS - 2005 A very vulgar vulgare ... or 'fascinating New Forest, Hatchet Pond (v.c. 11) ....... .1. Poland 46 fasciation' ................................... c.J. Lowe 14 Langton Matravers (v.c. 9) .................. E. Pratt 47 Longevity of botanists: a Lancastrian BSBI AGM, Fenyside (v. c. 44) ........ K. Pryce 48 Sample ...................................1. Edmondson 15 Castle Hill and Mt. Caburn (v.c. 14) Pollen (In)fertility ............................. B. Harold 16 ................................................. T.P. Bartlett 49 Developing reliable tests for putative CUckmereValley(v.c.14) ....... A.Knapp&HProctor 50 hybrids of bizarre parentage: a role E. Norfolk & E. Suffolk, Grass & sedge for the BSBI? ....................... R.M Bateman 17 identification weekend........ ....A. Copping 51 Orchid genera.................................. .R. Burton 20 Welsh AGM at Lampeter, (v.c. 46) 4-Pinnate Yanow / Milfoilleaves. ..1.E. Oliver 21 ........................A. Chater & A. Jones 52 Euphrasia eats quite a lot of things !.... E. Pratt 21 Harlestone Firs (v.c. 32) ..................... B. Laney 54 A Taster of the Flora of Bana and Braunton Bunows, Knowstone Moor & Vatersay.................................... c. Graham 22 Hares Down, (v.c. 4) ................ R. Hodgson 54 Part of a family ................................ .L. F arrell 23 Aberdeen City (v.cc. 9l-3) ..............I.P. Green 55 A native annual unfamiliar as a garden North Norfolk Rubus Meeting (v.c. 27)A. Bull 56 Weed ..........................................1. Ounsted 24 Ysgolion Duon, Bethesda (v.c. 49) Cerastium brachypetalum in a Bedfordshire .............. W. McCarthy & 80 Thomas 57 railway cutting ............................ P.C. Horn 25 Traeth Lligwy (v.c. 52) .................... .N. Brown 58 Ladies, Roses and Coral Necklaces in BOOK NOTES ..................................D. Pearman 60 v.c. 12 ........................................A. Mundell 26 Botanical Cornwall 13 (2005) ...... D. Pearman 61 Meum athamanticum in Cheshire (v.c. 58) The Teesdale rarities ............... ME. Bradshaw 62 .......................................... G.MKay 27 A checklist of the plants of Buckinghamshire Abundance of Cunant Galls on Oak in (including Milton Keynes & Slough) Taplow, Bucks. (v.c. 24) .............. P. Taylor 28 ............................ ........... R. Maycock 62 Botany in Literature - 38 .....................1. Smith 28 OBITUARY NOTES ...... ........................ M Briggs 62 Botany in Literature - 39 Garlic - Dracula NOTICES - Wolfsbane ......................... ME. Souchier 29 BSBI Postcards ............................ D. Pearman 63 Semi-double Ranunculus repens mimicking Future Developments in the Natural History R. asiaticus .................................. p..1. Cook 32 Museum's (BM) British Herbarium In defence ofa 'hiccup' .................. M Palmer 32 ........................................ M Spencer 64 Update on the Gladys Tuck Herbarium & The Rare Plants Group of the Ashmolean Natural Stephen Bishop Herbarium - new acquisitions History Society: Basic and Advanced to Bristol Museum & Art Gallery ........ .1. Marsh 33 Identification Courses .................. .. S. Helm 64 ALIENS 'Cherishing Churchyards' The Dilemma ofIntroductions .....D. Millward 34 ................ Y. Heslop-Harrsion & 80 Cooper 65 Abyssinian Mustard, a relatively new crop in OFFERS Britain .................................... D.R McKean 35 BSBI News - Much in Demand .......R. Skerrett 65 Bassia scoparia (Sununer-cypress) in Somerset Back numbers ofBSBIjournals ............ Editor 65 (v.cc. 5 & 6) 80.1. Leach & E.J. McDonnell 35 Gofynne seed list 2006 .............. .......... A. Shaw 66 Cover picture - Bluebells by the sea at Camusdarach, near Arisaig, Westerness; photo J. McIntosh © 2005 2 Contents / Editorial Seeds from Ware 2005 .................... G. Hanson 66 From the Director of Development... ..... G. Hemery 70 Wild Flower Society advert... ............................. 66 From the Volunteers Officer.. .............. R. Ellis 71 RECORDERS AND RECORDING From the Scottish Officer ......... .... .J McIntosh 72 Panel of Referees and Specialists Grants from the BSBI ........ ... P. Hollingsworth 73 .................................. ............ M C. Sheahan 68 GUIDE TO CONTRIBUTORS ....................•..Editors 74 Panel of Vice-county recorders ... .D. Pearman 68 DIARy..................................................................... 75 Flora Hibernica ............................... ... .D. Price 68 COLOUR SECTION ................................................... 75 NOTES FROM THE OFFICERS DEADLINE NEXT ISSUE ........................................... 7 5 From the Hon. General Secretary ........ .D. Pearman 69 ADMINISTRATION & IMPORTANT ADDRESSES ........ 76 Editorial DR LEANDER WOLSTENHOLME & GWYNN ELLIS As members will have realised by now, it's all Dr Walters on the back page and as luck would change for BSBI News. Not only do we have a have it I had a picture taken by Richard Pryce at new logo but also a larger page size, a full the launch of the New Atlas of the British & colour cover; a two column page layout, and a Irish Flora. I had thought of cropping the photo different order of contents. to show just Dr Walters, but as he and Dr As far as the order of contents go, we (the Franklyn Perring were so closely linked with the Editors and the BSBI Publication Committee) first Atlas it seemed appropriate to include the took the view that if we were going to change full picture, even though a similar photo was the look of News, we might as well go the whole included in BSBI News 92 (Jan. 2003). hog and look at the arrangement of papers. It Errata - Phil Smith writes 'Regarding my article was soon decided that the administrative bits on Herniaria in BSBI News 100: 23-25. The and pieces should move to the back of the jour­ person who first discovered Herniaria glabra nal, and in a complete reversal, the contents (Smooth Rupturewort) on the Sefton Coast was page(s) should move to the front, followed by the late Audrey Franks in 1980' not P.S. Gateley the Editorial and an occasional note 'From the as erroneously reported in the article. President' before the most important part of Commiserations (or should that be News, the notes and articles written by you, the Congratulations) to our past President and Bon. members. These will follow roughly the same Gen. Sec. Mary Briggs who has had to retire order as before but there seems to be little point from leading field meetings abroad due to in maintaining a strict division between' Aliens' failing eyesight. She tells me that in the last 32 and 'Natives' and in future issues these might years she has led 166 tours to 35 destinations in start to merge much more that here. 29 countries. 1,048 different people have been After the papers come the Field Meeting Re­ taken on tour, and such was her popularity that ports, Book Notes, Obituary Notes and then the many returned several times so that she actually remainder of the Notices, Offers, Recorders and led 2,677 'people holidays'. Well done Mary! Recording (which might need renaming - any Apologies to John Barron, who somehow ac­ offers), finishing with Notes from the Officers quired an extra initial during his 30 years of and the Administration page. membership. It is now causing some confusion Nothing here is set in stone and all comments and I am happy to put on record that his name is on any aspect of the 'New