The Narboroughs
The Narboroughs
just as it was
over a hundred & more years ago
Hair Point x 200 showing teeth
Intermediate Screw-moss (Syntricha intermedia) with White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum)
x 100
Fox-tail Feather-moss (Thamnobryum alopecurum)
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
Hypotrachyna revoluta?
LichenSp ? on the Blackthorn Twigs
LichenSp
Opegrapha Sp
Capillary Thread-moss (Bryum capillare), Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-moss (Streblotrichum comvolutum) & Crimson-tuber Thread-moss (Bryum rubens)
x 100
x 200
A very odd Amblystegium serpens
Bonfire-moss (Funaria hygrometrica)
Schreber's Forklet-moss (Dicranella schreberiana) with Bryum capillare & Bryum dichotomum
Bicoloured Bryum (Bryum dichotomum)
Squash of the male plant of Capillary Thread-moss showing the paraphyses and the antheridia
The antheridal head of the male plant with a flower-like inflorescence at the tip of the shoot.
This acts as a form of splash cup , splashing the sperm laden water droplets when hit by rain
In the images below you can see the antheridia {male gametangia} (blue green flask shaped structure with a host of paraphyses providing protection.
Swan's neck Thyme Moss (Mnium hornum)
Slender Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum tenellum)
Creeping Feather-moss (Amblystegium serpens)
Great Scented Liverwort (Concephalum conicum)
Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum)
Marsh Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium ellipticum)
1.7mm long
Showy Feather-moss (Oxyrrhynchium speciosum)?
Great Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)
Even Scalewort (Radula complanata)
x 100
Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Below an image of very small leaved, tighly packed example of the same species.
x 100
Common Smoothcap (Atrichum undulatum)
Dwarf feather-moss (Rynchostegiella pumila)
Confirmed by JM - Costa without extensin on the dorsal side
Crisped Fork-moss (Dicranum bonjeanii)?
Three or four trees planted so close together they form a a multistemmed boundary marker
Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
A line of Beech (Fagus sylvatica) forming a marker boundary between parishes we think.
Wolterton
Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)
Cape Thread-moss (Orhtodontium lineare)
The hairs on the surface of the Elfcup are matted but not coiled
Thus
But not a foolproof method.
T
The fact that the hairs are septate contribute to a more confirmed id.
Ruby Elf Cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea)
Fly Sp
Spider Sp
Lecanactis abietina
Kneiff's Feather-moss (Leptodictyum riparum)
Greet Scented Liverwort (Conocephalum conicum)
Even Scalewort (Radula complanata) with Metzgeria furcata & Metzgeria violacea & Frullania dilatata
Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)
?
Lichen Sp
Pertussaria Sp?
Pertussaria pertusa
By there is a pink discolouration on some of the warts
This one doesn't have the same number of black spots on each wart and in many cases no obvious ones at all
Sp??
Physconia grisea
Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphaea heteromalla)
Wavy Beard-moss (Didymodon sinuosus)
Thickpoint Grimia (Schistidium crassipilum)
Cape Thread-moss (Orthodontium lineare)
X100
x200
Lesser Pocket-moss (Fissidens bryoides var bryoides)
Bordered leaves about 1mm long.
Capsules held vertically
Supine Plait-moss (Hypnum cupressiforme var resupinatum)
Leaves most definitely pointing upwards
Dusky Beard-moss (Didymodon luridus)
Red Beard-moss (Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum)
Dwarf feather-moss (Microeurhyncium pumilum)