Historical data on the vascular plant flora of the Šepeta mire

he paper presents data on the flora of the Šepeta mire, formerly one of the largest raised bogs in Lithuania. The data on the vascular plant species analysed in this paper are taken from the most important publications of the interwar period, mainly from the vascular plant species lists presented therein (Hryniewicki 1933, Wojtusiakowa 1938, Brundza 1940). Data on the specimens of vascular plant species stored in the herbaria of Warsaw and Vilnius Universities (WA, WI), Nature Research Centre, and in that of the Institute of Botany (BILAS) are also included in the analysis. In total, the above-mentioned publications list 255 species (or taxa of other ranks) of the plants inventoried in the Šepeta bog and its surroundings over the 1926–1936 period. The plant specimens collected in the interwar period are preserved in the herbaria of WA and WI. The collections are rather small. The WI herbarium contains 27 specimens of 7 species collected between 1926 and 1936. The WA herbarium contains 50 specimens representing 32 species collected between 1932 and 1934. The BILAS herbarium contains only 13 vascular plant specimens of 11 species collected after the Second World War, mainly in 1959. The monograph on the Šepeta raised bog (Brundza 1940) contains data on the distribution of the currently protected and threatened species of Lithuania.