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66 Forth Naturalist and Historian, volume 22 BOOK REVIEWS Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. Robert D. Campbell. 1999. Mainstream Publishing. 250pp. ISBN 1.84018.189.3. £9.99. Well produced with many illustrations, many coloured; and tourist information – visitor services, transport, accommodation – supplement a very readable, knowledgeable, informative text, taking us round the area by ten road routes. Some source works, naturalist and historical, are mentioned in the introduction, including FNH’s Central Scotland: land, wildlife, people (by title only), but not our Lure of Loch Lomond (which is kindred though briefer to much of this book), while giving some lesser works. Opportunities in the text to give further reading are not taken eg. Mair’s. Stirling and our Mackay’s Doune; historical notes. The reader really needs a magnifier to benefit from the useful maps and street plans. Though a great deal of known information is given well, a notable ommission spotted was the classic bathyspheric surveys by Murray and Pullar c1900 of all Scottish lochs, where the author only mentions the earlier Admiralty survey of Lomond. As the author says “it is remarkable that there has been no comprehensive guide” to the region , but by “bringing together much diverse information about this beautiful region … about to become Scotland’s first National Park”, he has here succeeded in providing an admirable guide for some time to come. Scotland: World Bibliographical Series (vol 34). Dennis Smith, compiler. revised edition 1998. ABC Clio Press. 466pp. ISBN 1.85109.280.3. £37. This extensive series, presently of over 200 titles, will eventually cover every country,and some of the world`s principle regions and cities, each in a separate volume of annotated entries of books and papers dealing with its history, geography,economy, politics, and people, culture, customs. Each volume seeks to achieve by careful selectivity and critical comment of the literature, a realistic expression and appreciation of the country; for the reader – reference sources in a uniform format. FNH’s Central Scotland: land, wildlife, people, and the Forth Naturalist and Historian are in the chapters on Flora and Fauna, and on Local Studies. Access to the Countryside for Open Air Recreation. Scottish Natural Heritage’s Advice to Government. The Access Forum. November 1998. 60pp. After extensive and vigorous debate this states that the best way to meet the Government’s intent to create greater freedom for people to enjoy the countryside is to change the law to create a right of access.
Forth Naturalist and Historian, volume 22 67 BRAMBLES OF THE TROSSACHS AND STIRLING: W. M. ROGERS’ 1896 SCOTTISH VISIT RETRACED G. H. Ballantyne Most people with more than just a passing interest in wild flowers are probably aware that there are some groups of plants which are ‘difficult’ and which need to be left to specialists. The main groups include the hawkweeds (Hieracia), dandelions (Taraxaca) and brambles (Rubi). Most of these reproduce asexually and, e.g. what Linnaeus classified as a single species, Rubus fruticosus, is now known to consist of several hundreds of true-breeding entities, each the product of a fertile cross in the past. In the case of brambles, well over 300 microspecies have been reliably recorded from Britain and Ireland and several additions are being described yearly. However, it is now evident that many brambles have a very localised distribution – some a mere bush or two – and it has become the custom to bestow a scientific binomial only if a particular microspecies is known to be present over a reasonably large area. Therefore there are quite a few bushes and clumps to be found that cannot be named, and may never receive one. Differences between some species are small and not obvious whereas others look quite dissimilar. In the field environmental factors, especially shade, can exacerbate difficulties in identification so that the same taxon growing at the edge of a wood can look quite distinct in the wood itself. Thus it is not surprising that the early botanists were baffled by brambles and in fact it was not until about 1970 that any real progress was made. By then, Eric Edees had been joined by Alan Newton in paying the Rubus genus much attention, and their resultant Brambles of the British Isles (Edees and Newton 1988) at last made it worth while for interested individuals to record brambles meaningfully. In Scotland not much work was done on the genus during the 19th century. Towards its close, the foremost British authority was the Reverend W. Moyle Rogers of Bournemouth, who received parcels of dried specimens from north of the Border and thus gained a knowledge of some species. In 1896 he took the opportunity of a first visit to Scotland to stay in Callander for the first three weeks of July and to explore the surrounding countryside increasingly being called the Trossachs, in search of brambles. He chose well for, unknown to him, Callander lies near the dividing line between what were much later described as the North Sea and Irish Sea Bramble Florulas (Newton 1980), thus giving him the chance to find a good range of species. Had he gone to any number of other places as his base, he might have been quite disappointed, for there are many parts of the country bereft of other than a handful of species. He also made short outings to a few other localities, notably Killin and Crieff while he stayed at Gargunnock at the invitation of Colonel Stirling, a local botanist, for three days at the end of his visit and explored the Stirling area. The results of this Scottish trip are described in Rogers (1897a and 1897b).
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