The 'County Records' scheme of the Wild Flower Society

摘要

In November 2008 a package dropped through my letterbox which I was amazed to find contained a faded booklet entitled the Berwickshire County Botanical Record. This proved to contain a list of plants found in Berwickshire over the period from 1920 to1957 annotated with dates and localities but not with the finders' names or the author of the Record. The localities of many of the scarcer plants were familiar to me, but by no means all. This article relates what I have been able to learn about the circumstances in which such County Records were compiled.