I've been asked by someone doing some research what "Robin Run In the Hole" - clearly from a the context a wildflower - might have been ? Does anyone know of...
Subject: [UKBotany] Victorian wild flower name Geoffrey Grigson's The Englishman's Flora (J.M. Dent, 1955) is the best starting point for researching English...
The Englishman's Flora by Geoffrey Grigson. Ruth ... From: John Crellin To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:07 PM Subject: [UKBotany]...
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Thanks all - I will certainly try to get a copy of Grigson...
Asked a local history friend but all I have had from him so far is; "Nothing in the Rev. C.A. Johns classic 'Flowers of the Field'" Phil ... From: John Crellin...
Maybe something in Flora Brittanica? have you tried Googling the name? Colin Jacobs. Professional Writer, Naturalist and Photographer. Beccles Suffolk. V.C...
A google search brings up this reference in The Welchmans Last Petition of 1642 http://eebo.cica.es/datos1/web.e0002/115954/index.pdf The reference is on the...
Thanks again for all replies and this one has taught me something new about Google. Time was when the words being in the order typed without break would bring...
Hi Malcolm and thanks I am glad my Google idea proved a winner. Colin Jacobs. Professional Writer, Naturalist and Photographer. Now doing beginners Wildlife...
I have had a go at Gill's Ryenats Willowherb key and worked out one to be E. tetragonum: stem and leaves rather downy and soft to the touch; stem red; leaves...
I'd agree that the "squareness" isn't very helpful - that is why I don't use it (or number of lines on the stem! From the habitat I'd say it almost has to be...
Stem squareness isn't even a feature in the Stace key and yes it's nothing like as clear cut as say the square-stemmed St John's Wort. In case it helps I have...
Thanks for response. I'm pretty sure it's tetragonum on the basis that the flowers on all of the 3 plants I have looked at are 'not opening wide and flat' and...
The fact that you say it is "rather downy and soft to the touch", greyish-green, and looking at the detailed pics I suspect you have a hybrid with some E....
Thanks Gill. The softness is rather akin to Holcus mollis; it did go through my mind that it could be a hybrid re. an earlier comment by John Crellin that...
Hi folks, On Sunday 12th July 2009, I was leading a walk along the river Tees entitled `Watercolours along the water' which was part of Natural England's...
Hi all, Lovely, can't really see the pollinia, (to say which one). I also think you sheep is a devil, but I do like the thistle, in fact I've never seen...
Hi all The Butterfly orchid is Greater. Sean To: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com From: d.watts@... Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:42:36 +0000 Subject: [UKBotany]...
<<I also think you sheep is a devil>> so do I << but I do like the thistle>> me too << in fact I've never seen Cirsium heterophyllum in the wild.>> You should...
Devils Sheep Bit is all along the river at the moment as are the Orchids. Three Peaks- we did it about twenty years ago, a very wet day if I remember and had...
Recently had another opinion from a local historian re. your query. He reckons the name is earlier than Victorian, more likely mediaeval, also that it is a...
Maybe it belongs to Arum maculatum! Colin Jacobs. Professional Writer, Naturalist and Photographer. Now doing beginners Wildlife Tours in Suffolk and Norfolk. ...
Fortunately this time it was dry for the Three Peaks - and they have greatly improved the paths across the soggy bits. This time the purple saxifrage had...
I came across this blog entry today: http://cabinetofcuriosities-greenfingers.blogspot.com/2009/07/botanical-xenophobia.html I realise my perspective extends...
I think he is mistaken, and that Himalayan balsam is indeed an invasive alien. Certainly round here it has taken over many habitats, notably the banks of local...
Hello Stuart Hope you are well and the Hedges of Donegal are flourishing. This is a difficult one , but to say that Balsam has no "entomological benefit" would...
I have posted 3 pics in my ryenats folder of fragrant orchids (one of them white) growing in wet limy fen grassland. My thinking is that they are densiflora on...
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