Archives of the Liverpool Botanical Society. Click on links for documents.
In summer 2024 a new plant for the Sefton Coast was found at Ainsdale NNR. Bell Heather Erica cinerea. The story is told by Phil Smith in the attached paper.
The video of Peter Gateley's talk on 9 November 2024 on Introduction to Grasses is on You Tube at https://youtu.be/mgGHS6SX8PI
Questions for Peter included what exactly was sea-washed turf, as some people had not heard of it. Grazed saltmarshes are often dominated by Red Fescue, and it was in demand as fine-leaved turf, at one time it was really big business in places like Morecambe Bay.
Mary Dean gave an alternative way of describing the differences in positioning of the rachis on Common Couch and Perennial Rye Grass is that a fairy (or cat) can lie on a Couch but falls off in rye grass!
Ways of remembering the positions of the glume, lemma and palea were discussed (including alphabetical from bottom to top).
Other alternatives guides for identification were also discussed - for beginners there is Dominic Price’s “A Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes” and Faith Anstey “Start to Identify Grasses”. Some of the standard field guides also have a section on grasses. For grasses not in flower there is Hilary Wallace’s FSC” Grasses: a guide to identification using vegetative characters.”
The BSBI YouTube Channel has videos on grass identification. The FSC has an online key to grasses. Ken’s Keys (Ken Adams) has keys to the grass genera. The BSBI website has Plant Crib with useful accounts of several genera. More details on useful links are in our Links Section www.livbotsoc.org/links.html and in the pdf file below.
Everyone thanked Peter for the talk and the photos showing the appropriate part needed for identification, they also urged him to do a follow up talk on other grass species in other habitats.
Questions for Peter included what exactly was sea-washed turf, as some people had not heard of it. Grazed saltmarshes are often dominated by Red Fescue, and it was in demand as fine-leaved turf, at one time it was really big business in places like Morecambe Bay.
Mary Dean gave an alternative way of describing the differences in positioning of the rachis on Common Couch and Perennial Rye Grass is that a fairy (or cat) can lie on a Couch but falls off in rye grass!
Ways of remembering the positions of the glume, lemma and palea were discussed (including alphabetical from bottom to top).
Other alternatives guides for identification were also discussed - for beginners there is Dominic Price’s “A Field Guide to Grasses, Sedges and Rushes” and Faith Anstey “Start to Identify Grasses”. Some of the standard field guides also have a section on grasses. For grasses not in flower there is Hilary Wallace’s FSC” Grasses: a guide to identification using vegetative characters.”
The BSBI YouTube Channel has videos on grass identification. The FSC has an online key to grasses. Ken’s Keys (Ken Adams) has keys to the grass genera. The BSBI website has Plant Crib with useful accounts of several genera. More details on useful links are in our Links Section www.livbotsoc.org/links.html and in the pdf file below.
Everyone thanked Peter for the talk and the photos showing the appropriate part needed for identification, they also urged him to do a follow up talk on other grass species in other habitats.
The site that Tim Baxter talked about in March is Trees and Shrubs Online https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/
A modern reference to temperate woody plants, a web-based encyclopaedia of woody plants hardy in the temperate parts of the world that is based principally on Bean’s Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles.
A modern reference to temperate woody plants, a web-based encyclopaedia of woody plants hardy in the temperate parts of the world that is based principally on Bean’s Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles.
Rules of Society
Proceedings (just LBS business, not papers) 1908-1922
Proceedings for the year 1908
Proceedings for the year 1909
Proceedings for the year
1910
1910
Proceedings for the year 1915
Proceedings for the year 1916
Proceedings for the year 1917
Proceedings for the year 1918
Proceedings for the year 1919
Proceedings for the year 1920
Proceedings for the year 1921
Proceedings for the year 1922
Thanks to Peter Tipping for scanning the Proceedings
Bulletins 1989 - 1995
Parnassia newsletters 1995 - 2020
Archive Indoor Programmes 1992 - 2024
Other Resources
2023 Field Trips slide show for AGM by Steve Cross as a pdf to the right
AGM Notes 2023 to the right
The March Talk on Urban Lower Plants is available as a large pdf urbanLower Plantszz (1).pdf
The separate resources only are in the link to the right.
The separate resources only are in the link to the right.