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High Heath.

 

Dull and wet.

This and the next are two new species of moss for the site. The first is Racomitrium lanuginosum. Patch shown about 8 cm. across.

    

This shot shows the tiny capsules. The setae are less than 1 cm. long. These capsules are scarce, since the Racomitrium is self-fertile.

And this looks like the closely related Racomitrium heterostichum. Patch about 4 cm.across.

    

The capsules in the left image belong to Ceratodon purpureus.

This patch of mosses and lichens is on very thin soil over rock. It contains: Racomitrium lanuginosum (centre top), Racomitrium heterostichum (grey, top right), Polytrichum urnigerum (centre, with orange archegonia), Cladonia portentosa (grey 'antlers', lower centre). I'd say that there is also Trapelia coarctata, a lichen, (black dots on the stone at the top edge, left of centre.)

Picture about 10 cm. across.

 

These are the capsules of Polytrichum juniperum.

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