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  • Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles: Krauss’s Clubmoss on Raasay
    While I was away Lesley found Krauss’s Clubmoss (Selaginella kraussiana) in Raasay House grounds. The only previous records in the vice-county are from Rum up until 1976. S. kraussiana was introduced to cultivation in Britain by 1867 and can be an abundant weed in the shady corners of…