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)
LichenSp on the Blackthorn Twigs
LichenSp
Capillary Thread-moss (Bryum capillare), Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-moss (Streblotrichum comvolutum) & Crimson-tuber Thread-moss (Bryum rubens)
x 100
x 200
Bonfire-moss (Funaria hygrometrica)
Schreber's Forklet-moss (Dicranella schreberiana) with Bryum capillare & Bryum gemmiferum
Small-bud Bryum ( Bryum gemmiferum)
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)
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)
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.