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5 February 2012

Botanical Cornwall

Botanical Cornwall is a series of occassional publications.

Botanical Cornwall 14 (2010) is the latest publication by the Botanical Cornwall Group and the Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ERCCIS). Edited by I.J. Bennallick and D.A. Pearman this occasional publication is the first since 2005 and includes fifty pages of new and interesting records for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and fifteen colour pages and photos.
Articles include;

  • A new dandelion - Taraxacum ronae - and its distribution in Cornwall by L. J. Margetts
  • Recording in Cornwall 2006 to 2009; Fitch’s Illustrations of the British Flora; and Important Plant Areas – all by C. N. French
  • The decline of Illecebrum verticillatum by D. A. Pearman
  • Centaurium scilloides, Juncus subnodulosus and Phegopteris connectilis rediscovered in Cornwall after many years by I. J. Bennallick, and
  • Bryological Field Meetings 2006 – 2007 by N. de Sausmarez
Botanical Cornwall 14 (2010) is available as a printed document from ERCCIS (based at the Cornwall Wildlife Trust) Five Acres, Allet, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 9DJ. Tel: (01872) 273939 Fax: (01872) 225476 for £5 (plus £2 postage and packaging if required, CHEQUES MADE PAYABLE TO ‘Cornwall Wildlife Trust’) or as a free downloadable PDF from the ERCCIS,Botanical Cornwall Group (See below), Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI), or Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation of Biological Recorders (CISFBR) websites, from the 30th September 2010.

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Number 15 is in preparation for publishing in 2011, so if you have any new of interesting records, or wish to submit an article regarding recording in Cornwall and/or the Isles of Scilly please contact the editors - I. J, Bennallick, Lower Polmorla, St Wenn, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL30 5PE – ianbennallick@btinternet.comor David Pearman, Algiers, Feock, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6RA - DPearman4@aol.com.

Back copies of Botanical Cornwall are also available. Please contact ERCCIS for details.

The contents page of Botanical Cornwall back issues are detailed below (please use back on you browser to return to this page)

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