The Meetings Held in 2013
Browndown, Gosport, Wednesday, 27th March
A meeting looking at the shingle beech at Browndown, Gosport, where John Norton has been finding lots of interesting lichens. We met at 10.30, at the large car park at western end of Browndown grid reference
SZ5689 9965, with a good range of lichens found including one very interesting
Lecanora discovered new to Hampshire.
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Keyhaven, New Forest, Hampshire, Saturday 16th of March
An afternoon visit to Keyhaven to look at coastal scrub with the aim of finding
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus. We met at the car park at
SU306915 at 1.30pm. A successful meeting with the target species found.
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Parkhurst Forest, Isle of Wight, Saturday, 20th April 2013
Parkhurst Forest is the largest pasture woodland relic in the Isle of Wight with a rich ancient woodland lichen assemblage, but it had not been looked at for sometime. Start at the parking at Marks Corner approx. OS grid ref
SZ470920.
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Wilverley, New Forest, Evening Meeting, Wednesday, 19th June
As part of the New Forest Heathland Lichen Survey, an evening meeting to start the survey the grid square SU2502. We met in the small northern car park at Wilverley Plain at
SU256012 at 6.45pm.
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