East Perthshire - Botanical Society of the British Isles

7 LAYOUT OF THE REGISTER
Plants are listed in alphabetical order, using the scientific name (in bold) and the
English name, both according to Stace, 2010.
Below the plant name is given its National and/or Local (Vice-county) rarity. On the
first line the older, non-IUCN, category of Nationally Rare or Nationally Scarce is
given first, followed by the newer IUCN category (if relevant). On the second line the
local category is given. If there is no national designation then only the local
category appears. In a small number of cases (e.g. Betula nana) there is a national
designation but no local one as the number of sites exceeds 15.
After the English name of the plant appears either N for native, or A for archaeophyte
Below these lines the plant data are presented in a box with 6 columns:
1 Grid reference. A variety of resolutions up to 6 figures. See Section 5,
above.
2 Date. The most recent year from which reliable data are held, from 1970
onwards.
3 Protection. Whether or not the site lies within a Site of Special Scientific
Interest.
4 Site. These are, where possible, ‘Wells sites’, which can be defined as
areas not exceeding that which can be enclosed by a notional 1 km
square. In some cases, where it is clear that sites less than 1 km apart
are in different management units, they are treated as separate sites.
Failing this it may be a 1 km square, a tetrad, or, in the least satisfactory
cases, a hectad.
5 Habitat. Data are frequently lacking here. Recording will improve from
now on.
6 Abundance. Data are frequently lacking here. Usually the species is
recorded at a site as one of a list. Only rarer species, or those being
monitored, will have abundance data.
7 Recorder. The most recent recorder. In a few cases more complete data
exist from a slightly older record, and these are then presented rather
than the most recent one.
Below the list of records for each species is a (usually) one-line comment. The
initials FBW in these comments refer to Francis Buchanan White.
8 REFERENCES
Cheffings,C. & Farrell,L. (eds.) 2005. The Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great
Britain. Species Status No. 7. JNCC, Peterborough.
Dandy, J.E. 1969. Watsonian Vice-counties of Great Britain. The Ray Society.
London.
Preston, C.D., Pearman, D.A. & Dines, T.D., 2002. New Atlas of the British & Irish
Flora. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Sell, P. & Murrell, G. 2006. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 4
Campanulaceae – Asteraceae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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