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Alderfen Broad

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Glaucous Crystalwort (Riccia glauca)

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Cylindric Beard-moss (Didymodon insulanus) ? & Common Pottia (Tortula truncata)

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Blunt-leaved Bog-moss (Sphagnum palustre)

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A Glacial remnant - Russow's Bog-moss (Sphagnum russowii)

This little patch has been there for 10,00 years. - Remarkable

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Well that was the hope from the grid ref but upon the examination of a stem leaf & branch leaf of a specimen from this little patch was actually Sphagnum subnitens

Perhaps not all of it but certainly the sample that was taken.

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Rigid Bog-moss (Sphagnum teres)

The cone at the centre of the capitulum is very pronounced and indicative of the species.

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In the arable fields around Alderfen a fair number of Sphaerocarpos Sp were found.

This one has been kept in a tupperware box with a lot of other mosses for the last month in a cold conservatory.

There seems to one ripe capsule.



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