Alderfen Broad
Glaucous Crystalwort (Riccia glauca)
Also
Cylindric Beard-moss (Didymodon insulanus) ? & Common Pottia (Tortula truncata)
Blunt-leaved Bog-moss (Sphagnum palustre)
A Glacial remnant - Russow's Bog-moss (Sphagnum russowii)
This little patch has been there for 10,00 years. - Remarkable
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.
Rigid Bog-moss (Sphagnum teres)
The cone at the centre of the capitulum is very pronounced and indicative of the species.
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.