CONTENTS Important Notice...................................... 2 Requests............................................. 46-47 From The President...................I. Bonner 2 UK-wide study on the fertility of Tilia Diary.......................................................... 2 cordata (Small-leaved Lime) – Editorial..................................................... 3 volunteers wanted!................C. Bugg 46 Notes..................................................... 4-43 Management of Genista anglica..T. Davis 47 Flora of Cornwall and Devon and that of Offers.....................................................47-48 north and west Brittany....D. Pearman 4 European local floras and botanical New flora of the British Isles, edition 3 itineraries...........................R. Burton 47 (2010): first reprint (2011).....C. Stace 8 The Botanical Research Fund ............. 48 Demise of Teesdalia nudicaulis in (v.c.59) Notices................................................ 48-49 ............P.H. Smith & P.A. Lockwood 10 Recorders’ Conference 2012.................. 48 ‘Critically Endangered’ and ‘Endangered’ Rhododendron Survey............A. Chater 49 Red List taxa...K. Walker & S. Leach 14 Unigro builds world leading plant Dittander takes to the road......G.M. Kay 19 quarantine house at Kew Gardens..... 49 Dittander by roads in the south-east Book Notes........................J. Edmondson 49 ..........................................T.J. James 19 Obituary notes........................M. Briggs 50 Fumaria reuteri in Surrey (v.c.17) Florence Houseman – correction of .....................................G. Hounsome 20 obituary details................G. Wilmore 51 Biodiversity – a response........S. Hedley 21 Profiles of new honorary members.. 51-54 Forbes’ Plant and Seed Catalogue, Gigi Crompton........................L. Farrell 51 Hawick, 1914.............M. Braithwaite 22 Len Margetts.........................K. Spurgin 52 Mycophily and its possible role in plant Martin Sanford..........................C. Boon 54 micro-distribution within habitats Reports of indoor meetings 2010–2011 54-51 ...........................................R.J. Kemp 23 Botanical hotspots in Britain and Ireland: Vigour, woodiness, branching & other who revealed them and when?, recurring aberrations in Rosebay Birmingham 2010................J. Bailey 54 Willowherb.......................J.E. Oliver 24 Notes from the Annual Exhibition Meeting, Plants and security...........R. Chancellor 27 Birmingham, 2010...............J. Bailey 55 Changing status of Mibora minima on the AGM and Spring Conference, Galway Sefton Coast, Merseyside (v.c.59) June 2011.............................J. Bailey 58 P.H. Smith, C.M. Highfield & Recorders and Recording...................... 59 ...................................P.A. Lockwood 28 Panel of Referees and Specialists Salicornia ‘sorts’ (2): zonation , dispersal, ....................................M.C. Sheahan 59 seeds and sorting..........D.J. Hambler 35 Panel of Vice-county Recorders Botanical crossword 16...........Cruciada 41 ........................................D. Pearman 59 Response to Dr Bob Leaney's suggestion Notes from the Officers..................... 59-62 of over recording of certain species in From the Hon. General Secretary – the Flora of Norfolk, and while helping to ...........................................L. Farrell 59 record for the Flora of Suffolk..A. Bull 42 From the Acting Scottish Officer – Aliens.................................................. 43-46 ......................................... A. Hannah 60 Massed occurrence of Hirschfeldia incana From the New Welsh Officer – in (v.c.20)..........................T.J. James 43 ..........................P. Spencer-Vellacott 60 Purple Toothwort on Gunnera again Plant Unit news from the Head of Research .......................................P.H. Oswald 44 and Development...............K. Walker 61 Notes from Wisley (v.c.17).J. Armitage 45 Solution & crib to Crossword 16............. 63 Deadline for News 119............................. 63 Cover picture – Mibora minima at Southport (v.c.59). Photo P.H. Smith © 2011 (see p. 28) 2 Important Notice / Diary IMPORTANT NOTICE From The President IAN BONNER, Cae Trefor, Tynygongl, Anglesey, LL74 8SD (01248 852651. [email protected]) With some relief and much pleasure the The second is to employ a P/T Administra- Society is pleased to announce the appoint- tive Officer to support the whole Society; but ment of Antony Timmins as Honorary Treas- especially to help the Hon. Treasurer and PU urer. Antony, a member of BSBI since 2002, Team in the ever more complex administra- lives in Brentwood and works as a chartered tion of our contract and grant-aided work. accountant for Price Waterhouse Coopers in Clive Lovatt, a member since 1977, is being London. We also record our thanks to Terry appointed to this post. Swainbank, the retiring Hon. Treasurer, for In the current economic climate the the considerable improvements he instituted in Agencies are no longer able to guarantee our financial systems during his term of office funding beyond the current financial year; but and for continuing to manage our affairs so if we can deliver what we have been meticulously until the ongoing handover to contracted to provide, we anticipate similar Antony is complete. funding in 2012 and beyond. Kevin, the Plant Unit Team and all of you However Council feel these steps are so who contribute data are to be congratulated – important to the Society that should there be we are providing such essential plant data that any shortfall in the immediate future we the Country Agencies are grant aiding our should cover this using some of the capital in work at at an enhanced level for the current our invested funds. financial year. Finally on the staffing front you will have This is allowing the Society to undertake read previously of the approval to recruit an modest; but much needed changes to our staff officer for Wales, with a remit similar to that complement. performed so successfully by Jim McIntosh in The first of these is to convert the P/T post Scotland. We are delighted that Dr Polly occupied by Tom Humphrey into the full time Spencer-Vellacott joined us as Wales Officer post of Database Officer. Tom has developed at the beginning of July. Polly has already the Big Database, and after six months trial- spoken at the Wales AGM at Dale in Pembro- ling we have decided this offers everything the keshire and is well into a programme of Society is looking for. So this will enable meeting and helping vice-county recorders further development and data loading to and other members. Polly is based at the proceed to make this our main database – the CCW Office in Mold in Flintshire and her Distribution Database or DDB. contact details are on the last page. DIARY N.B. These dates may be supplementary to those in the 2011 Calendar in BSBI Yearbook 2011 5 Oct Records Committee, London. 16 Nov Council, London. 12 Oct Publications Committee, London. 26 Nov Annual Exhibition Meeting, 15 Oct Welsh Committee, Aberystwyth. Natural History Museum, London. 26 Oct Executive Committee, London. 5 Nov Scottish AGM and Exhibition, Edinburgh. Editorial 3 EDITORIAL TREVOR JAMES (Receiving Editor), 56 Back Street, Ashwell, Baldock, Herts., SG7 5PE (01462 742684; [email protected]) GWYNN ELLIS (General Editor), 41 Marlborough Road, Roath, Cardiff, CF23 5BU (02920 496042; [email protected]) Hail & Farewell I also received a message on my answer As you will read in the note from the President phone from a member whose name sounded (p. 2) and Notes from the Officers (pp. 59-60) like “Jack Daws” complaining about his name we welcome a number of new officers and say and address being left off the new Membership goodbye to one. May we add our thanks to List but with no other identifying details. I send the President’s, for all the work Terry Swain- him my apologies and will make sure his details bank did for the Society during his all too are in the next list; once I discover who he is! short stint as Treasurer. Atlas of British and Irish hawkweeds BSBI News and BSBI Yearbook This has now been published and mailed to all If anyone has any comments on how the who applied for the pre-publication offer. If content of these two publications has changed any member who ordered a copy has still not in the last year we would be very pleased to received it, please contact the Membership have them, especially if in time for the next Secretary (RGE). meeting of Publications Committee on Oct. 12. New Journal of Botany Note from the Receiving Editor The first issue of our impressive new journal It has been pointed out to me that we made an has now been published and mailed to error in the last issue of News (117: 45-6), members. If anyone has not yet received their where the finding of Taraxacum subericinum copy please contact the Membership Secretary in Britain was relegated to the ‘Aliens’ (RGE). section. I understand it is one of those Cumulative index to Journal of Botany relatively less frequent native species of RGE has just completed the first draft of a Taraxacum in the U.K., and should therefore cumulative index to all 80 volumes of the ‘old’ have been in the ‘Notes’ section, along with all Journal of Botany. Like my cumulative index the other articles. My apologies to Tim Rich to the first 110 issues of BSBI News (available and John Richards for this misplacement. for download on the BSBI website), this is a Changes to membership list work in