Hi All Hope you don't mind this off topic plea for help. I am going to the Gargano Region of Italy from mid April to early May 2002. My interests include most...
Martin, There is a nature reserve and visitors' centre at Foresta Umbra high in the middle of the Gargano Peninsula. I went there in September 1990 and didn't...
Rodney Burton
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Feb 4, 2002 9:53 am
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Dear Martin, Yes I can help you as I went to Southern Italy in April- May last year and one of our targets was to locate and photograph orchids. I obtained a...
Gordon Hanson
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Feb 4, 2002 6:47 pm
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Thanks Gordon Could I take you up on your offer of details of Web Sites, you can reply to my contact addy below. Can you let me have your E-mail addy? TIA ...
Hi Rodney Thanks for the info. you are one of the few (4) to reply so far but every little helps. I have done a couple of searches and come up with lots of...
Dear All, i thought that some of you may like to attend a couple of our meetings here in Cornwall (i know that several of you holiday in our County). Details...
ian bennallick
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Feb 5, 2002 2:23 am
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Hi, Can anybody recommend an entry-level book about the Lizard area? General wildlife, a bit of geology, that sort of thing? The only one I know of is...
Hi all, Does anyone know if Radnor Lily is in flower yet? It's a long way from Derbyshire if they're not! Also, if anyone has specific directions to the...
sean.cole
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Feb 6, 2002 4:24 pm
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Dear Steve, try 'A natural history of the Lizard Peninsula' by Jean Lawman (1994) published by Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, Cornwall. It is not as 'scientific'...
ian bennallick
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Feb 7, 2002 7:26 pm
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Dear Sean I was at Stanner Rocks yesterday and there is no sign of the Radnor Lily coming into flower just yet. Amongst the many thousands of non-flowering ...
Andy Shaw
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Feb 8, 2002 12:44 pm
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Hi Rodney I have now seen two refs to Ghost Orchid for Gargano :- http://www.eurobirding.co.uk/gargano.HTM I will let you know if I find any! Martin Catt Catts...
Our Botany Group has started to look at mosses - only one meeting so far, much enjoyed - and soon realised our identification material was not as helpful as we...
Dear Christine, There are two main, excellent moss (and liverwort) identification guides that give you a good chance of getting them right. The best moss...
Richard Lansdown
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Feb 9, 2002 10:38 am
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... Hi Christine, Which local group are you in? ... Not much to add to what Richard said, except: I'd certainly recommend starting with Watson. If you're in...
Storey, M.W.
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Feb 9, 2002 11:45 am
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Dear All, I will be having a couple of weeks in SW Turkey (based at Fethiye)in mid April. It's my first visit and as a general naturalist need advice on botany...
Bett & Les
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Feb 9, 2002 11:48 am
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British Mosses and Liverworts by E.V.Watson published by Cambridge University Press is probably best place to start . Easy to use keys . This is currently...
Keith Hatton
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Feb 9, 2002 12:48 pm
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Apologies for repeating the advice of others . That'll teach me to read all my mail before hitting the reply button. At least we all seem to concur on the best...
Keith Hatton
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Feb 9, 2002 1:03 pm
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Hellooooo! I did Bryophytes as a Taxonomic study for my M.Sc. Ecology. Useful texts As recomeded by AJE Smith himself ( Bangor Uni lecturer!) - EV Watson...
Kate Hayward
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Feb 10, 2002 8:36 am
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OOOOOPS Me too! Anyway, just shows which books are best!!! Happy squelching in the sphadnum!!! Kate (Moss) Hayward!! ... From: "Keith Hatton"...
Kate Hayward
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Feb 10, 2002 8:36 am
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There isn't a useful guide to the flora of SW Turkey because I haven't written it yet! Pflanzen der Turkei, by Kuerschner, Raus and Venter (Quelle & Meyer...
Rodney Burton
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Feb 10, 2002 6:40 pm
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Best modern key is probably 'Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland' by AJE Smith (1982), published by Cambridge University Press. Older publications are 'British...
... Well out of print, but often avail 2nd hand. Not worth getting IMHO. MacVicar's companion volume on Liverworts is much more useful. But both of these are...
Storey, M.W.
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Feb 11, 2002 10:56 am
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Just a thought, If you have access to the NVC books, they cover Bryophytes as well as vascular plants. I use them quite often if I have an unknown moss. It...
Dear All I have a request, does anyone know of a good book on the vascular flora of walls? Cheers Darrel [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Andy Thanks for this reply - sorry to be slow answering. Andrew Ferguson also kindly contacted me, and my friend (on whose behalf I posted the request) has...
sean.cole
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Feb 19, 2002 10:02 pm
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My colleague in the Baie de Somme, France would like our assistance. I hope you can help. If you are organising a Nature event in 2002 and more particularly...
rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region is looking for links on your natural-history / biology related web- sites. We collect,...
Dear All , Can you please tell me what the web page address is for the new web page on scarce plants. It appeared around Christmas time but I lost 15 emails at...
