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The
Wild Plants of Sherkin,
Cape Clear and adjacent Islands
of West Cork
John
Akeroyd (editor)
Lucy
Wright, Karen Clarke, Jennifer Shockley,
Nick
Rowe, Pat Hatch, Mike Robinson, Beth Milner
Published
by Sherkin Island Marine Station, Sherkin Island, Co. Cork,
Ireland, 206 pages. Hardback.
Photographs
This illustrated
publication brings together 20 years of floristic data from
the islands of Roaringwater Bay, S.W. Cork, Ireland. A total
of 592 flowering plants, conifers and ferns have been recorded
on these islands. This makes this small area the richest 10-kilometre
square in Ireland. Twelve Irish Red Data book species, over
30 significantly rare Irish plants and several taxa new to
the Irish flora have been recorded. This is the first Flora
for any part of County Cork, the largest county in Ireland,
since T. Allin's Flora of the County Cork, over 100
years ago in 1883.
Oleg Polunin,
the internationally noted botanist and author of the famous
series of Field Guides, spent a number of summers recording
the Flora of Sherkin and other islands in Roaringwater Bay
in the late 1940s. He reported 441 flowering plants and ferns
and began a study of the vegetation. His work has provided
the young botanists working at Sherkin Island Marine Station
with a foundation and inspiration for their research.
John Akeroyd,
a former student of Oleg Polunin, has a degree in Botany from
the University of St. Andrews and a PhD from the University
of Cambridge. He held a post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity
College, Dublin, in 1979-81, after which he revised Flora
Europaea/Volume I at the University of Reading. He is
now a freelance botanical consultant and conservationist.
Price: €6.00 (special offer)
plus
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Station 2022
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