CONTENTS Notes from the Receiving Editor............. 2 Vascular plant Red Data List: year 5 amendments Editorial..................................................... 3 ................ S.J. Leach & K.J. Walker 51 Marsh Botany Awards.............................. 4 New Flora of RHS Wisley and the Diary.......................................................... 4 host range of Lathraea clandestina Notes..................................................... 5-59 .........................................J. Armitage 57 Alopecurus aequalis at the Great Fen, Honorary membership..........T.G. Evans 59 Huntingdonshire. P. Stroh & M. Burton 5 Aliens.................................................. 60-78 Utricularia bremii in the New Forest Indian Balsam – triffid or treat? ...............................................M. Rand 8 .........................................J. Presland 60 Mire and wet heath restoration and Sedum kamtschaticum var. ellacombianum in management in Burnham Beeches. Johnston (v.c.45)..... S.D.S. Bosanquet 69 ....A.R. Westgarth-Smith, A. McVeigh Epilobium tournefortii...........M. Wilcox 70 .......................................& H.J. Read 10 Red Arum................................A. Galton 11 Focus on Apium leptophyllum Population structure and conservation of Genista .......................................E.J. Clement 76 anglica.....................................P.A. Vaughan 12 No future for Prunus mahaleb in Britain? Wild flower twitching.............C. Jacobs 17 .......................................E.J. Clement 78 Rorripa islandica discovered new for Requests & offers.................................... 79 v.c.38...................................B. Laney 18 Seeds from Ware...................G. Hanson 79 Probable first record for Equisetum Gofynne seed list 2011.............G. Shaw 79 ×robertsii.......................B.A. Tregale 19 Spare BSBI publications for disposal Hybrid rushes in the U.K. – sterility .........................................M. Perring 79 and fertility........................M. Wilcox 21 Book Notes........................J. Edmondson 80 New native taxa found on the Isle of Man .......................................B.A. Tregale 28 New panel of book reviewers for New Varieties of flowers in Kickxia spuria Journal of Botany........J. Edmondson 81 ..............................................A. Shaw 29 Mike Walpole’s library sale: some Peloric variety of Kickxia spuria personal impressions...J. Edmondson 81 ...............................................E. Pratt 29 Watsonia is dead – long live the Cultivating fumitories...............A. Shaw 30 New Journal of Botany!...M. Sanford 82 Pushing up a restricted number of Obituary Notes........................M. Briggs 84 Daisies......................................M. Rand 32 Recorders and Recording................. 84-85 Searching the BSBI News back Panel of Referees and Specialists catalogue with Google.........C. Pescott 34 Some uses for open-source GIS in ....................................M.C. Sheahan 84 botanical recording............C. Pescott 34 Panel of Vice-county Recorders Ophrys apifera var. atrofuscus in (v.c.9) ............................................D. Pearman 84 .................................................N. Bailey 35 Notes from the Officers..................... 85-90 Atypical Calystegia soldanella with white flowers...................I. & J. Rees 36 Hon. General Secretary..........L. Farrell 85 Juncus acutiflorus..................M. Wilcox 37 Head of Research and Development Taraxacum limbatum new to the British ...........................................K. Walker 86 Isles C. Ferguson-Smyth & J. Richards 38 Scottish Officer....................J. McIntosh 88 Seeded capsule of the Irish Lady’s-tresses orchid Hon. Field Meetings Secretary ....................................................F. Horsman 40 ..........................................J. Sutcliffe 89 Trientalis europaea in the Outer Hebrides BSBI Publicity Officer vacancy ........................................F. Horsman 41 ........................................J. McIntosh 88 New names and taxa in the third edition of Scottish vice-county joint recorder Stace – part 2.R. Ellis & D. Pearman 42 vacancies.........................J. McIntosh 88 New names and taxa in the third edition of Stop Press................................................ 91 Stace – part 1: Correction and further Francis Rose and the Flora of Kent work...............R. Ellis & D. Pearman 51 ........................................D. Pearman 91 Deadline for contribution to News 117... 91 Cover picture – Fumaria occidentalis cultivated at Llanynis (v.c.42). Photo A.G. Shaw © 2010 (see p. 30) 2 Notes from the Receiving Editor Notes from the Receiving Editor TREVOR JAMES, 56 Back Street, Ashwell, Baldock, Herts., SG7 5PE; (Tel.: 01462 742684; email: [email protected]) This issue of BSBI News you will find is rather ing Editor, preferably electronically (but I can large! This is owing to the fact that, with the type up limited copy when necessary). change-over from Watsonia to the forthcom- Electronic contributions should, if possible, ing New Journal of Botany, there is an inevita- be in WORD format, as simple text, without ble hiatus, as well as a slight shift in the nature fancy formatting. The simpler the better. We of material that is being published in the latter, prefer to receive things in straightforward resulting in the appearance on our doorstep (or Times New Roman, 10 point type, with no email inbox!) of a range of articles that might formatting other than indications of where formerly have been submitted to Watsonia. italics are required. ‘Bold’ should be avoided, We are trying to accommodate what we can in but if you want to emphasise something, this bumper issue, and hope that things ‘settle underline it. Tables and diagrams can be down’ again shortly. submitted as part of the text, or separately With this change in publications, we have (either embedded in WORD, or as separate also had to re-visit our thinking about what JPEG or PowerPoint files. Photographs are can be accepted, and what may have to be left welcome, preferably as high quality JPEG out. As a result there have been a few changes. format as possible. I can accept upwards of 7 Firstly, we regret to have had to close the megabyte files over the Internet, so that should long-running Botany in Literature feature that not present a problem. Please make sure we many may have enjoyed over the years, and know the name of the person whose photo it we extend our thanks to Margot Souchier for is, for due acknowledgement, and have copy her contributions over that time. This was for the caption that you want to include. If announced in the last issue, but I would like to possible, do not embed photos in text re-iterate this here. (although I am able to sort this out if it is a Another change, which has been met with problem). If you are submitting hard copy some discussion, has been the decision to diagrams or drawings, these can be scanned move the Field and other Meeting Reports and returned (please include return postage!). from News into a re-considered Year Book for As for what sort of material we are going to the Society. In fact, this reverses a process include – BSBI News will remain focused on that occurred many years ago. The Yearbook current activity concerning botany in Britain (note subtle name change) henceforth will also and Ireland. We aim to make the journal house formal Obituaries of members, as inclusive, so welcome short articles from perhaps a more appropriate place than a beginners or other members, not just ‘newsletter’ (if that is really what News is!). academics/professionals. We also welcome These had formerly appeared in Watsonia, but short notes on associated topics, such as the new journal, with a broader readership (we computing for botany etc., where these are not hope), is not considered by the editors to be too long or technically complex. Main articles the place for them. Short notices about the and notes should be composed at the level at death of members, of course, will still appear which News is aiming – scientifically accurate in News as before. and proficient, but not necessarily academic in style or content. For the current issue, we are Notes for contributors publishing a few articles that might be I will take this opportunity to set out some regarded as of greater overall importance than guidelines for contributors to News, over and might previously have been the case – such as above what we have said repeatedly before – papers on new species to the U.K., or articles that articles need to be submitted to the Receiv- proposing (minor) taxonomic changes. We Notes from the Receiving Editor / Editorial 3 are happy to take these, although if your Finally, there has been some discussion in intended contribution is concerning a scien- the Society about the potential for BSBI News tific study of more than just local context, or is to become more ‘outward-looking’, perhaps about taxonomic matters of more than just more ‘modern’ in style. After debate, the minor importance, we would suggest these Society has so far decided to keep it much as need to be contributed, in the first instance, to it is in content and form, with the thought that the New Journal of Botany. Where we feel it is, primarily, the place where members that submitted material ought to go there, we (academic as well as amateur) meet to tell may get back to you to suggest this. As the others about their findings,