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Brad Scott
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Working with the Sloane Herbarium @QMULsed
& @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
Delighted to see this beautiful book turn up in the post. Part of the terrific British Wildlife Collection, published by Bloomsbury @chiffchat.bsky.social. I have loved the forms of marine phyla since A level biology
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Out on the South Downs near Firle today. Gorgeous light on the chalk landscape
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp is one of the most extraordinary I have visited, with a beautiful collection of herbals and plant texts
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Zillions of mushrooms around in Ashdown Forest in Sussex. Today's finds include Boletus luridiformis, Russula claroflava, Cortinarius violaceus, and what I think is Volvariella bombycina
September 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
And HS109, a small volume of plants from the gardens at Montpelier, which very likely belonged to Dr Edward Browne (1644-1708). This deletion is really hard to make out
September 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I need to go through my notes in detail, but HS30 is the first one that comes to mind. It came to Sloane via Christopher Merrett, but Sloane noted that it probably came from 'Dr Bates', surely George Bate (1608-1668), London physician and FRS, who would have been well known to Merrett
September 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Another classic AI fail as iRecord attempts to ID a stagshorn fungus
September 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Evening walk to check out some Marsh Gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe) on #AshdownForest
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Interesting options in iRecord. #wildflowerhour
September 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I found this rather splendid one yesterday on a well rotted tree in an iron-rich stream in Ashdown Forest
September 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Exploring a part of the wet wood about a mile from home and found new sites for the moss Hookeria lucens and Narrow-leaved Buckler-fern (Dryopteris carthusiana) #bryology #Sussex #wildflowerhour
September 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The rather splendid moss Hookeria lucens along a small stream in Paupersdale Wood in the Sussex Weald
August 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Interesting to see how much of an outlier is the population of Wahlenbergia hederacea in the Sussex Weald
August 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Nice to see the small Ivy-leaved Bellflower (Wahlenbergia hederacea) on my daily local walk in Ashdown Forest
August 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Lovely walk on the South Downs today, south of Lewes
August 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The single outlier on the south-west coast Sloane found "very plentifully floating along the Coast of the Island [Jamaica] by Pedro Point", which he presumably reached by boat. Here's his specimen (currently called Syringodium filiforme, Manatee grass), and distribution from GBIF
August 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Finally finished extracting and plotting all the locations in Jamaica that Hans Sloane (1660-1753) mentioned in his work, the Voyage to the Islands. Unsurprisingly, they are mostly in the south-central part of the island, but also show his trip north

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August 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is the only one I have a picture of to hand. It is from Plukenet's herbarium, HS102, f. 94. If Abdella Shaw was still in post when Adair was there, it seems almost inconceivable that they would not have talked about plants. Maybe this was one of them...
August 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I found several on the edge of Kidbrooke bog yesterday too
August 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Enjoying the new issue of BJHS, starting with Jim Secord's reflections on the history of the field.

Can't wait to see my article on learning about moss botany in a domestic setting in print, possibly now in the September issue

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July 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Today I went looking for a patch of Marsh St John's wort that I saw on Ashdown Forest in 2017. The wet ditch is dry in places and I didn't see it, thou there were reasonable quantities of Bog Asphodel and Common Cottongrass

#wildflowerhour
July 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Just over two months left before I finish my "embarrassing, low grade" project on the Sloane herbarium
July 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This enables the specimen's collection site to be very precisely located. That is surely the small track running from the east of The Warren (the woods containing the sandrocks) at TQ477232. However, the area has been developed since, so Atrichum angustatum is unlikely to still be there

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July 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
But what is wonderful is reading the specimens with Nicholson's diary (also in the herbarium) to hand, where he writes that it was "in a little used sandy road leading down from the Rocks to the Main Road near Coopers Corner" (see alt text)

3/5
July 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
We have data for many Nicholson specimens, but it is partial, and omits almost all the detail. For this 1899 specimen (now called Atrichum angustatum), all we have is 'Maresfield, near the rocks'. The inscription on the packet is slightly more expansive, 'Sandy road at the rocks'

2/5
July 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM