have been transported back to Wicklow. So many natural habitat transitions and ecotones in such a small area. It’s land beyond human control and it’s powerful to stand among it all. In late summer you leave that little wild place with a clear mind and a purple tongue.
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Amendments to the Flora of County Limerick (2013) Sylvia Reynolds, 115 Weirview Drive, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin A number of errors in my Flora of County Limerick have come to light since publication in 2013, some resulting from redetermination of voucher specimens. Such errors are dealt with below and records in the BSBI’s database (DDb) have been adjusted as necessary. While compiling details of pre-2000 Limerick records for the DDb in spring 2020, I came across additional historical records, including some unpublished new first records made by Praeger in 1900. Most of these are not of particular significance and they are all available in the DDb. It was also an opportunity to re-evaluate a few historical records in the Flora. Many records of taxa in the Flora have been updated since 2013, new sites found and new taxa added to the county’s flora. Again, nearly all these records have been submitted to the DDb and a selection published in annual Limerick reports in Irish Botanical News. Detailed records of defined internationally, nationally and locally rare and scarce taxa in the Flora and since its publication are documented in the County Limerick Rare Plant Register (Reynolds 2021), available online on the BSBI website. Amendments follow systematic order in the Limerick Flora, with page numbers. 121. Ophioglossum vulgatum (Adder’s-tongue): ‘Foynes (RDOB)’, probably Mullagh SE of Foynes 1900 (R24; see later record and as for Botrychium lunaria). 121. Botrychium lunaria (Moonwort): ‘near Feenagh 1900 (RDOB)’, probably Mullagh SE of Foynes (R24; see later record and as for Ophioglossum vulgatum). 133, 134. Polypodium interjectum (Intermediate Polypody) and P. cambricum (Southern Polypody): specimen of ‘P. vulgare f. semilacerum’ from Mullagh 1900 (R24) is the first record for P. cambricum, not P. interjectum; image of specimen checked by Martin Rickard in 2014 and named P. cambricum var. semilacerum; deeply serrate pinnae are apparently rare in P. interjectum. PAGE 64
