Plant records

Abstract

Records for publication must be submitted to the appropriate Vice-county Recorder (see BSBI Year Book), and not to the Editors. Following publication of the New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora and the Vicecounty Census Catalogue, new criteria have been drawn up for the inclusion of records in Plant Records. (See BSBI News no. 95, January 2004 pp10 & 11). These are outlined below: First records of all taxa (species, subspecies and hybrids) included in the VCCC, designated as native, archaeophyte, neophyte or casual. N First record since 1970 of the taxa above, except in the case of Rubus, Hieracium and Taraxacum. N Records demonstrating the rediscovery of all taxa published as extinct in the VCCC or subsequently. N Newly reported definite extinctions. N Deletions from the VCCC (e.g. through the discovery of errors, the redetermination of specimens etc.) NB – only those errors affecting VCCC entry. N New 10km square records for Rare and Scarce plants, defined as those species in the New Atlas mapped in the British Isles in 100 10km squares or fewer. (See BSBI News no. 95, January 2004 pp. 36-43). Records for the subdivisions of vice-counties will not be treated separately; they must therefore be records for the vice-county as a whole. However, records will be accepted for the major islands in v.cc. 100, 102-104, 110 and 113. In the following list, records are arranged in the order given in the List of Vascular Plants of the British Isles and its supplements byD.H.Kent (1992). Nomenclature and taxonomy also follow this list except where changes have been made in the 3 edition of theNew Flora of the British Isles by C. A. Stace, in which cases, the changed names have been used. The Ordnance Survey national grid reference follows the habitat and locality. With the exception of collectors’ initials, herbarium abbreviations are those used in British and Irish Herbaria by D. H. Kent & D. E. Allen (1984). Records are field records if no other source is stated. For allrecords, ‘det.’ or ‘conf.’ appear after the herbarium if the determination was based on material already in an institutional herbarium, otherwise before the herbarium. The following signs are used: * before the vice-county number: to indicate a new vice-county record. { before the species number: to indicate that the plant is an archaeophyte. ‡ before the species number: to indicate that the plant is a neophyte. E before the species number: to indicate that the plant is a casual. The above 3 signs may also used before the vice-county number to indicate the status of the plant in that vice-county. w before the vice-county number: to indicate that this is an additional hectad for a Rare or Scarce plant. Ø at end of entry: established taxon not in Vice-County Census Catalogue. Name of authority provided. [ ] enclosing a previously published record: to indicate that that record should be deleted or changed. Records are now published in two separate sections – 1) NATIVES (including archaeophytes) and 2) ALIENS (neophytes and casuals). The following list contains records up to and including the year 2014. Records up to and including the year 2015 will be published in the next but one issue of the New Journal of Botany. Records from the following vice-counties are included: 10, 11, 12, 17, 23, 39, 51, 58, 67, 68, 69, 70, 75, 79, 80, 83, 89, 91, 93, 106, 113(A) & 113 (J)