My first reply was wrong on one point - the dye-plant alkanet is Alkanna tinctoria, and it is species of Alkanna (there are lots in Turkey which I have had to...
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Nigel Kendall
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Jun 2, 2001 6:59 pm
Hi, On a brief visit to the New Forest this afternoon, a favourite site for Lesser Butterfly Orchid (Platanthera bifolia) produced masses of spikes. I stopped...
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Andy Horton
bmlss@...
Jun 3, 2001 7:50 pm
Hello, Adur World Oceans Day 2001 revealed that the Starry Clover, Trifolium stallatum, that I have only seen as a small stunted plant in the wild, grows much...
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pete.selby
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Jun 3, 2001 9:31 pm
Nigel, I saw your post and wondered if you could supply further details, including grid ref to go with your count. It may be a new site for Platanthera....
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John Peacock
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Jun 5, 2001 7:55 am
Dear All Im must admit I am being lazy with this mail. We have a local pond that has a population of the pale form of Yellow Flag, I.pseudacorus ssp pallida....
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Andy Shaw
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Jun 5, 2001 8:26 am
Hi All This weekend I will be making a pilgrimage to the Lizard Peninsula. Can any one provide grid references/site locations for its special plants. Many...
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Christopher J Perraton
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Jun 5, 2001 2:51 pm
I have long wondered whether there really was continuous forest cover of this country after the last glaciation. For traditional pollen analysis and climatic...
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Ron Tavender
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Jun 5, 2001 6:18 pm
Andy - Allium roseum - SW697139 - verge, road to Kynance Cove. Erica vagans - SW702158 - on hedgebank at crossroads A3083 to Ruan Minor. Also abundant...
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Rodney Burton
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Jun 5, 2001 7:21 pm
Did you make up this name? The only names I can find for it are var. pallidiflava and var. bastardii; the former seems to have priority. It certainly does not...
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Rodney Burton
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Jun 5, 2001 7:21 pm
As well as on cliff-tops, it's worth looking for rare clovers a little way up the valley W of Lizard town, on the sunny N side, c.695125. When I stayed in...
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Ian Thirlwell
iant@...
Jun 5, 2001 8:18 pm
John, I've asked a friend about this & he doesn't know the ssp. pallida. However in the Sell & Murrell Flora the species is described as variable with a pale...
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John Peacock
johnp@...
Jun 6, 2001 8:15 am
Dear Rodney and Ian Many thanks for your replies. Time to come clean!! I have mentioned on the list before I am Chairman of the Banstead Commons Conservators...
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Keith Hatton
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Jun 6, 2001 10:00 pm
Hello , Today I discovered a single clump of Scrophularia scorodonia , growing above the Dee Estuary in Wirral (vc 58).It was growing in woodland on the edge...
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Ron Tavender
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Jun 6, 2001 10:42 pm
Keith, Two records from my database: 1. Cornwall, 1993: SW818335 - one plant back of beach, quayside east of Flushing. 2. Cornwall , 1998, SW774603 - Porth...
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Keith Hatton
kjh@...
Jun 6, 2001 10:54 pm
Ron, Thanks for the prompt reply ,(I thought I was the only mad botanist to still be working away at this time of night ).There seems to be plentiful records ...
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martin.catt@...
Jun 7, 2001 5:28 am
Hi Keith ... Probably not now as we have found it in further 10KM squares in South Devon, it is spreading and turns up on sites after soil disturbance. It is...
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Paul Kennett
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Jun 7, 2001 8:31 am
John ... In J E Lousley's Flora of Surrey, there is this record: "Plants with primrose yellow flowers (var. pallidiflora Sims; var. bastardii Boreau) have been...
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Paul Kennett
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Jun 7, 2001 8:33 am
Sorry, typed this wrong ... and not pallidiflora as I wrote Paul Kennett Epsom, Surrey...
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John Peacock
johnp@...
Jun 7, 2001 8:45 am
Paul Many thanks. I don't know Barons Pond where in Epsom is that? John Peacock Radiotherapy Research Unit Institute of Cancer Research Sutton, Surrey Tel:...
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Paul Kennett
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Jun 7, 2001 8:58 am
... If this doesn't get wrapped follow the link: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=520038&Y=159121&A=Y&Z=1 Barons Pond is on the W side of...
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Paul Kennett
kennettpaul@...
Jun 7, 2001 9:16 am
Slightly off topic but following the thread last month started by Rodney Burton's observation of the large colony at Victoria Station I posted the message to...
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Frank Hunt
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Jun 7, 2001 12:31 pm
Hello, I've dug up my notes from a trip to the Lizard I made at the beginning of June 1999. The two best areas I visited were Kynance Cove (around 684134) and...
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Rev LilyPTwist
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Jun 7, 2001 3:49 pm
How about map reference and site description so we can all enjoy it ? Colin Twist...
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Rodney Burton
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Jun 7, 2001 9:57 pm
John, If you go to Baron's Pond, as recorder for the London Natural History Society if it still has the Iris, also Ranunculus trichophyllus and Lemna trisulca...
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martin catt
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Jun 8, 2001 7:24 am
Hi Colin If you are coming to S Devon you can find it easily at many places along the A379 road between Modbury and the outskirts of Dartmouth. This passes ...
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Keith Hatton
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Jun 8, 2001 11:02 am
Colin , Have received your message and will send a detailed reply when I get some time, Keith ... From: Rev LilyPTwist <lilyp@...> To:...
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Chris Pogson
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Jun 8, 2001 11:05 am
I am visiting northern Ireland in a couple of weeks time and hope to see Erica terminalis. I gather from a number of sources that this has been known from...
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Nigel Kendall
nigel.kendall@...
Jun 9, 2001 6:52 am
Hi, Can anyone advise me on the best location for Fen Orchid (Liparis loeselii) in South Wales these days. I'm planning to take a day trip from NE Surrey, and...
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martin catt
martin.catt@...
Jun 9, 2001 8:11 am
Hi Nigel I have seen it at Kenfig Dunes east of Port Talbot, you can park near the visitor centre and walk south into the dune slacks. Seems be plenty there...
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Ron Tavender
ron.tavender@...
Jun 9, 2001 9:27 am
Nigel - Try dune slacks around SS800806 at Kenfig. Also, the Visitors' Centre staff are helpful and will point you in the right direction. Ron Tavender ...
