A new Hybrid Flora of the British Isles has just been published. This ground-breaking publication is the first of its kind in the world, detailing all known vascular plant hybrids in the British Isles. The accounts of 909 hybrids include notes on identification, habitats and distribution, chromosome number, information on fertility/sterility and capacity for vegetative reproduction. This important work also features completely novel maps, based on plant records collected by BSBI members, illustrating where the commoner hybrids occur in relation to their parents.

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society volume 115 part 3 (July 2015) is devoted to biological recording. The issue (guest-edited by H.E. Roy, C.D. Preston & D.B. Roy) marks the 50th anniversary of the Biological Records Centre and many of the papers are based on talks given at the celebratory conference held at the University of Bath in June 2014. In addition to an editorial introduction, there are 22 papers.  

A new atlas of British and Irish bryophytes is published this month. Bryophytes is the collective term for mosses, hornworts and liverworts, spore-producing, rather than seed-producing, plants without flowers. The British Isles support a rich and geographically diverse flora of bryophytes with more than 1000 native species (four hornworts, 298 liverworts and 767 mosses) currently known. Fifty-nine new species have been discovered in the last 20 years.