2002 Liskeard Cornwall 7 September One Day Meeting
Five members met the leader Paul Green at Golitha Falls on a fine but windy day in which the forecast heavy showers fortunately did not materialise. The walk along the river to see the falls produced plenty of
Hymenophyllum tunbrigense (Tunbridge filmy-fern) and some splendid specimen trees of beech. The afternoon walk, a two and half miles circular trip round Siblyback Lake, produced five mints, including Mentha x piperita (peppermint) and M. x gracilis (bushy mint).
The beautiful Parentucellia viscosa (yellow bartsia) was plentiful in an adjoining field; some specimens being almost a metre high. Crassula helmsii (New Zealand pigmyweed) smothered most of the bare mud around the lake margin; even so with a bit of searching the group still managed to find Elatine hexandra (six- stamened waterwort).
PAUL GREEN