... what 'githago' means and why it was applied to the corncockle? I believe that it is a Latin term for that spice variously and misleadingly known as black...
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Martin Cragg-Barber
martin@...
Feb 1, 2001 2:06 pm
In message <VA.00001d0e.0070198b@ ... Dear Roger, How wonderful it is to read something so learned! (orange hawkweed stuff) Surely you should be writing a...
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Christopher J Perraton
christopher_perraton@...
Feb 3, 2001 10:37 am
D. Gledhill. The names of Plants. CUP .1959. githago an old generic name (green with red-purple stripes)...
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Michael.Mountford@...
Feb 4, 2001 7:15 pm
Hi Everyone Just a quick not e to say that this site was recommended to me by one of the subscribers to the site and what a super site this....something that...
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Andy Horton
bmlss@...
Feb 4, 2001 8:04 pm
Hello From: "Christopher J Perraton" <christopher_perraton@...> Subject: Re: Agrostemna githago ... githago an old generic name (green with...
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Jackie Jennison
jjennison@...
Feb 5, 2001 6:58 pm
D Gledhill. The names of plants. CUP. The date is 1989 not 1959 I dont think 'githago' means 'green with red-purple stripes' Like Paul Kennett, I believe the...
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Christopher J Perraton
christopher_perraton@...
Feb 6, 2001 9:02 am
D. Gledhill. The names of Plants. CUP .1959. ... Sorry ! It should be have been: First edition 1985 ISBN Hard Cover 0 521 30549 7 Paperback 0 521 31562 X ...
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phil.lane@...
Feb 7, 2001 7:39 pm
Hello I've just joined the group and was wondering if anyone can help me with regards to Plagiobothrys scouleri. It's an introduced species from NW America...
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Ron Tavender
ron.tavender@...
Feb 7, 2001 9:10 pm
Plagiobotrys scoulerii has been known since 1982 from Cobblers Corner, in the New Forest, Hants, grid ref. SZ303995. Its habitat is a shallow depression...
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Pete Selby
pete.selby@...
Feb 8, 2001 8:53 pm
There is a second site in the New Forest on Beaulieu Airfield. It is likely that both these areas were re-seeded in the 1950's to improve grazing for the ...
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Ron Tavender
ron.tavender@...
Feb 8, 2001 9:39 pm
To Phil Lane et al. I wonder if your annually flooded dune-slack in Scotland is in Caithness? Clive Stace, in "New Flora of the British Isles" writes that the...
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ray hamblett
hamblett@...
Feb 9, 2001 9:43 am
Hello Could someone tell me when an introduced plant becomes native ? That probably sounds like a contradiction but when one is trying to determine what plants...
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Feb 9, 2001 11:35 am
... Can't remember the precise "official" cut off date, but it's usually referred to as "before the Romans". In otherwords anything brought in during the Roman...
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Nick Moyes
nick@...
Feb 9, 2001 5:02 pm
An introduced species can never be classed as native, no matter how long it has been growing here. An introduced species would however be classed as...
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Ian Thirlwell
iant@...
Feb 9, 2001 6:07 pm
I seem to remember a definition of native as being here when the last ice age retreated, or something similar. It was in a BSBI publication a while ago, I...
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Ian Thirlwell
iant@...
Feb 9, 2001 6:17 pm
My answer was not quite accurate. I found the article & this was just one factor considered; it referred to fossil records between the last glaciation & the...
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phil.lane
phil.lane@...
Feb 9, 2001 9:25 pm
Ron Tavender/Pete Selby Thanks for all the information. No this isn't the Caithness site, but a new recording from Aberdeenshire and now fully confirmed by...
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Rodney Burton
rodney.burton@...
Feb 9, 2001 10:47 pm
Ray, It not only sounds like a contradiction, it is a contradiction. If you have to choose native species for your design, then obviously you must disregard...
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Martin Cragg-Barber
martin@...
Feb 11, 2001 10:19 am
In message <064660143090921DIAL3@...>, ray hamblett <hamblett@...> writes ... I just wonder if there is a point in having a pedigree of...
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paulinvc63@...
Feb 11, 2001 11:05 am
Hi all Just a few thoughts on the discussion so far. If the Romans? had not introduced the Rabbit, the large Blue Butterfly wouldn't have colonised britain or...
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sbu99gek@...
Feb 11, 2001 12:12 pm
Hello Just to confuse the issue, I thought I should raise the matter of whether there is truly a distinction between native and introduced plants. Lots of...
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Ian Thirlwell
iant@...
Feb 11, 2001 12:35 pm
it just goes to show what a tricky area this can be!! Ian ... From: <sbu99gek@...> To: <UKBotany@yahoogroups.com> Sent: 11 February 2001 13:12 Subject:...
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ray hamblett
hamblett@...
Feb 11, 2001 4:39 pm
Hi I'm responsible for the original posting and have been fascinated by the replies. I was rather playing devils advocate to see what the response would be, a ...
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Ruth Dawes
Dawes.Rosedale@...
Feb 11, 2001 4:44 pm
Hi Does anyone know a source of good quality botanical clipart? Ruth...
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Steve Preddy
Steve.Preddy@...
Feb 11, 2001 6:03 pm
Try - http://botany.miningco.com/science/botany/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm Not used it myself but I've been told its quite good....
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Pete Selby
pete.selby@...
Feb 11, 2001 8:16 pm
Both the sites are still extant. I saw two patches at Cobbler's Corner, Setley earlier this year. Both sites are open access as long as you are just looking....
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helen proctor
hm.proctor@...
Feb 11, 2001 11:38 pm
Following on from Giles King-Slater's comments on the changing flora - it's "survival of the fittest" in the plant world and very often aliens are more...
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Storey, M.W.
malcolms@...
Feb 12, 2001 11:19 am
... If a species spreads here entirely under it's own steam, the it IS regarded as native (also called "Recent Colonist") This is certainly the case for...
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paulinvc63@...
Feb 12, 2001 6:44 pm
Hi Helen/all Winter heliotrope was introduced as a garden plant from mediterranean North Africa in 1806. By whom I do not know. Just as an aside to an earlier...
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PJBelman
PJBelman@...
Feb 12, 2001 7:34 pm
Please, please, will those of you on this list who post using Outlook Express realise that your messages are unreadable to many of us and switch off your HTML....
