2004 Rame Head Cornwall 8th May One Day Meeting
Even though it was a sunny afternoon there was a brisk cool breeze blowing which meant that the seven members had to wrap up well for a stroll out to Rame Head one of the most exposed headlands on this part of the Cornish coast. Many species were seen with tiny flowers such as carpets of Trifolium ornithopodioides (bird's-foot clover) and Ornithopus perpusillus (bird's-foot). We sat down for some time on a rocky outcrop looking at the differences between three species of Erodium: musk stork's-bill with its easily seen flowers, common stork's-bill with flowers half the size and sea stork's-bill with insignificant flowers. The two subspecies of Myosotis discolor (changing for- get-me-not) were studied; subspecies discolor with a bright yellow corolla and the two uppermost leaves on the main stem opposite and subspecies dubia with a creamy yellow corolla and the two uppermost leaves not forming an opposite pair. Below the ruin of an old chapel Sagina subulata (heath pearlwort) was in full flower and on a nearby wall there were many clumps of Asplenium obovatum (lanceolate spleenwort).
The afternoon ended with a visit to the nearby site for Serapias parviflora (small- flowered tongue orchid), which was only in bud.
PAUL GREEN