Atlas Of Ferns Of The British Isles

Atlas Of Ferns Of The British Isles Atlas Of Ferns Of The British Isles

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98 MARSILEACEAE 0 7 6 0 29.1 PILULARIA GLOBULIFERA Pillwort 0 100 1 1 Kilometres Mikm 5 -V \ 0 CHANNEL ISLANDS PLOT TED ON UTM GRID 9 8 9 0 wv 29.1 Pilularia globulifera L. 100 9 8 0 1 2 3 4 1 00 2 A sub-Atlantic species spread throughout Britain and Ireland but generally decreasing because of drainage of marginal lands and ponds which formerly contained the species. Similarly declining in Europe where it is regarded as an endangered species. Unless sporocarps ("pills") and circinnately coiled leaves are present P.globulifera may be overlooked as a young Juncus plant. 1 0 e 0 0 vm, 0 0 88 0 o 00 00 0 C. 60 00 0 9 8 75 HX HW 0 0 0 80 0 0 00 o o o o o lio o 1 2 3 4 5 6 N2 4 6 t;$ 0 6 5 4 3 2 0

AZOLLACEAE 99 0 5 0 8 30.1 AZOLLA FILICULOIDES Water Fern 0 100 Kilometres 0 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS Mdes 9 PLOT TED ON 0 wv UTM GRID 9 9 0 i3 8 2 ,47 6 6 3 9 8 8 0 N1 0 7 5 o 0 : 00 0 _. gee 1 2 3 4 5 6 30.1 Azolla filiculoides Lam. Regarded by most botanists as having been introduced into Europe from tropical America. It is certainly well-established here and shows signs of increasing in Britain (cf. map 27/1, p.15, in the 1962 edition of the Atlas of the British Flora, with the above). With the present trend in eutrophication of ponds and inland waters it is difficult to explain this increase. Possibly the increased drainage operations have created more ditches and similar open water in drainage channels which have in turn become colonised. It suddenly, and inexplicably, disappears, often to return some five or ten years later. N2 4 6 0 0 5 4 3 2 0

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A sub-Atlantic species spread throughout Britain and Ireland<br />

but generally decreasing because of drainage of marginal lands<br />

and ponds which formerly contained the species. Similarly<br />

declining in Europe where it is regarded as an endangered<br />

species. Unless sporocarps ("pills") and circinnately coiled<br />

leaves are present P.globulifera may be overlooked as a young<br />

Juncus plant.<br />

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