Dull and cold.
Sphagnum identifications have to be couched in all sorts of qualifying statements. Suffice it to say that there appears to be little agreement in taxonomy and species definition.
According to 'Watson', this is Sphagnum squarrosum -a predominantly aquatic species.
And this is Sphagnum subnitens. Note the fruiting structures in the second image.
A very delicate and small moss: Breutelia chrysocoma. The pale growths are about 2 cm. tall. The red-veined specimen (left) is Pleurozium schreberi.
One of the Polytrichum family, but a lot smaller than other Polytrichum species. Probably Polytrichum juniperium.
2 pm. An odd, flat-leaved moss/liverwort with alternate-leaved growth.
4 pm. At this early stage in my moss/liverwort career, I have to say my 'liverwort antennae' are twitching.
2 am. And it transpires that it is, indeed, a liverwort: Diplophyllum albicans.
The leaves appear to be arranged in four rows, but each 'pair' of leaves is actually a complex single leaf:
