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.
Dersingham Fen
Fringed Bog-moss (Sphagnum fimbriatum)
Lustrous Bog-moss (Sphagnum subnitens)
Mueller's Pouchwort (Calypogeia muelleriana)
Common Feather-moss (Kindbergia prologa)
River Feather-moss (Brachythecium rivulare)
Common Pouchwort (Calypogeia fissa)
Juniper Haircap-moss (Polytrichum juniperinum) Male Plants
Stem Leaf
x200
0.6mm 
Branch Leaf
x200
1.0mm
Compact bog-moss (Sphagnum compactum) ?
Red-stemmed feather-moss (Pleurozium schreberi)
Minute Pouncewort (Myriocoliopsis minutissima)
Smooth Bristle-moss (Lewinskya striata)
Slender Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum tenellum)
Ulotta Sp
5mm
X40
X100
Calypogeia arguta
x40
x100
Two-horned Pincerwort (Cephalozia bicuspidata)
x100
Forcipated Pincerwort (Cephalozia connivens)
x40
4.5mm
Even Scalewort (Radula complanata)
x40
Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
X 100
2mm
Swartz's feather-moss (Oxyrrhynchium hians)
Cladonia floerkeana
Nestled amongst the Heath Star-moss (Campylopus introflexus) among the Cladonia podetia a small green liverwort can just about be seen.
Showing almost ripe antheridia on a male shoot
X200
Common Threadwort (Cephaloziella divaricata)
Drunmsticks (Aulocomnium andodrogynum)