Presentation to Miss Mary J. P. ScannellAuthor(s): Daniel KellySource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 23, No. 5/6 (Jan. - Apr., 1990), pp. 211-212Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25539459 .

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lr. Nat. J. Vol. 23 No. 5/61990 21 (

REPORT

PRESENTATION TO MISS MARY J. P. SCANNELL

Plate 6. Miss Mary J. P. Scannell with the painting presented to her by members of the

DNFC and BSBI.

A joint field meeting of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club and the Botanical Society of

the British Isles was held in Co Offaly on 5 August 1989, led by Maura Scannell and Daniel

We visited the site of Lough Coura, north of Birr (N098132). Formerly a lake of about

40ha, in Praeger's time "an extensive limy marsh", the area has now been largely converted

to conifer plantation and cattle pasture. A number of interesting species survive in drains

and at wood margins. We proceeded thence to Glaster, southof Banagher (N0010). This is a

fine esker ridge with a good flora of lime - and drought - tolerant species. From the top of the

ridge we surveyed the expanse of All Saints Bog (also known as Lower Newtown Bog).

This bog has the normal domed shape of a raised bog, but at the top of the dome is a birch

wood approximately 20ha in extent, with trees up to 10m high. A unique site, the closest

analogue appears to be in Finland (J. Cross 1987 Ir. Nat. J. 22:305-310). Sadly, the bog is

seriously threatened: huge ridges of milled peat could be seen on its eastern margin

The most important business of the day took place, appropriately, by the roadside at

the end of a day's botanizing. This was a presentation to Maura Scannell, from some ot her

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212 Ir.Nat.J.Vol. 23 No. 5/61990

friends and admirers in the two societies. We presented a painting of esker flowers by

Daphne Levinge (a DNFC member who has made a happy combination of her botanical and

artistic talents). Daniel Kelly (for the DNFC) and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (for the

BSBI) each spoke briefly, trying to express in a few words our appreciation of Maura's

enormous contribution to Irish botany. This was also an occasion to express something of

the great affection in which she is so widely held. (The only problem in organizing the

presentation was in having to restrain the generosity of subscribers!) Recovering from the

surprise of this unexpected turn of events, Maura expressed her thanks, with some words of

reminiscence about her association with each of the two Societies. (She has a long association with the DNFC, of which she was elected an Honorary Member in January 1987; and she is a founder member of the Irish Branch of the BSBI.) She has just retired

from her post in the National Herbarium, but her botanical activities show no signs of

diminishing. Long may she retain her unique position in the world of Irish botany.

Department of Botany, Trinity College, Dublin 2 DANIEL KELLY

PLANT RECORDS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Records submitted for publication in this section of the Journal may be either lists or individual records. They should normally be new county records, second records, major extensions of range or

of interest in some other similar respect, Contributors of vascular records should note that they should notify the relevant BSBI Recorder (s)

before submitting records for publication in order that the status of a record (new county record, second county record etc.) can be stated accurately and authoritatively. Records which are received

other than from the relevant Recorder and which have not been certified in this manner may be

submitted to him/her for scrutiny. Records of non-vascular plants are also welcome.

Nomenclature for vascular plants should follow Scannell and Synott's Census Catalogue of the

Flora of Ireland 1987. Authorities may therefore be omitted from vascular plant lists except where

species not included in the Census Catalogue are mentioned. The following symbols are used: ̂ certainly introduced, ̂ probably introduced, t possibly introduced.

An explanatory note may precede the list or be included with particular species, but contributors

should make these as brief as possible. The Plant records section is edited by Paul Hackney, Ulster Museum, Belfast and records for

inclusion should be sent to him direct. Plant Records will normally appear in the January issue of the Journal.

NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORDS OF LICHENS FROM GALWAY (H16, H17) AND MAYO(H26, H27)

The biological vice-counties of NE Galway (HI7) and E Mayo (H26) are among the most under-recorded in terms of their lichen floras. Seaward (M.R.D. 1984, Glasra 8: 1-32) recognized 109 taxa in H17 and 89 in H26; a subsequent investigation in H17 added a further 9 species (McCarthy, P, M., Mitchell, M. E, and Schouten, M. G, C. 1986, Nova Hedwigia 42: 91-98). The following lists contain 81 lichens recorded for the first time in HI 7 and 63 in H26; included m the E Mayo list is the first Irish record of Verrucaria dolosa Hepp, Furthermore, 11 taxa are added to the lichen flora of W Galway (H16), while 9 are added to that of W Mayo (H27).

West Galway (HI6):

f ^n ^i!i~ Bal,ynahallia' Moycullen, M217350, 30.7.1986; 1? 2km N of Roundstone,

L/2U420,9,9.1988; 3?Devon Park, Salthill, Galway Borough, M287246,5.8.1981; 4?Nimmo's Pier, Galway Borough, M301245;29.8,1985.

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