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Shropshire Botanical Society Newsletter No. 12 Spring 2005 Contents Page Botanical Society News .................................................................... 2 New Records..................................................................................... 3 A note on Hoof Fungi ....................................................................... 3 Meetings for 2005 ............................................................................. 4 Notes on the genus Poa L. in Shropshire .......................................... 5 Obituary: Elizabeth Mary Hignett................................................... 10 Bryophytes at Shrewsbury Museum ............................................... 12 Membership list with renewal dates................................................ 20 Cover photos (from top): Galanthus nivalis (Sarah Whild), Hygrocybe calyptriformis (Alex Lockton), Ranunculus ficaria (Lockton), Squamanita paradoxa (John Bingham), Galanthus nivalis forma pleniflorus (Whild). The Shropshire Botanical Society www.shropshirebotany.org.uk 66 North Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2JL 01743 343789 s.j.whild@bham.ac.uk alex@whildassociates.co.uk Any opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the various authors, and are not necessarily those of the Society Text & illustrations © Shropshire Botanical Society 2005 Editor: Alex Lockton Distribution maps produced using DMap for Windows, supplied by Dr Alan Morton Ordnance Survey maps reproduced under licence No. 100040428 1
Botanical Society News Sarah Whild It is with sadness that I have to report that three members of the society died last winter – Audrey Franks, Mary Hignett and Peter Thomson. Of the three, Audrey was the most active recorder, having made 626 records in the county between 1974 and 1996, many of which were of interesting and difficult plants. Peter was, among other things, minuting secretary for the Council of the BSBI and husband of Stephanie Thomson, the county recorder for Herefordshire, but he never made a botanical record in Shropshire. I particularly remember Peter as a kind welcoming face at my first BSBI Recorders conference. Mary was a 10km square coordinator during Sinker’s Flora project and made some 100 records of her own, dating from 1929 to 1992. Ruth Dawes has contributed an obituary for Miss Hignett, which is in this newsletter. Annual General Meeting 2.00pm Preston Montford After, there will be a talk on ‘Greening the Dots – a new recording scheme for Shropshire’ by Sarah Whild Tea, biscuits and plant ID surgery The AGM will take place on Saturday 23 rd April 2005 at Preston Montford Field Centre, at 2pm. Our treasurer, Roger Green, will be standing down, and the committee will be nominating Mags Cousins to take over. Nominations so far are as follows: Mags Cousins for Treasurer, Sarah Whild for Secretary (unless anyone else would like to do this, please!). Committee nominations are Fiona Gomersall (nominated by Alex Lockton and Sarah Whild) and Roger Green (nominated by Sarah Whild and Mags Cousins). Committee members Maurice Hoare and Sylvia Kingsbury are continuing to serve. The committee will also be proposing a rise in membership rates to £10 a year or £20 for 3 years. Rare Plants of Shropshire The third edition of Rare Plants has now been published, this time as a printed and bound book. The accounts of the species are becoming more accurate and detailed as time goes by, but there is still plenty of work to be done, especially on the locally scarce species – those present in fewer than ten sites in the county. Hopefully the report will stimulate more interest. In this edition all records are given in full, with the recorders’ names, which we feel is the most appropriate way to acknowledge people’s contributions, as well as providing the most useful information to readers. See the back cover of this newsletter for details, including the special price for Botanical Society members. There will be copies available to purchase at the AGM (or we can send by post). On a final botanical note, I was surprised to record two new snowdrop taxa this Spring – it will be too late to record them by the time you receive this newsletter, but do look out for lesser celandine species. It is amazing how under-recorded these early species are. Hugh Hughes made the first county record for R. ficaria ssp. ficariiformis last Spring, so it is worth looking out for the different subspecies. Please do not forget to send in your records as soon as possible. Happy botanizing! 2
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