Wanlockhead, 22/08/2015

A small handful of us walked through a grey day, ducking between gold panners (ok there were only 3) along the lead mine route from Wanlockhead. There was a  slim chance of Ditrichum plumbicola if we hit lucky on the lead works spoil heaps. In the end that didn't "pan" out, although one lucky couple we bumped into had scooped a couple of flakes of gold for their back pains.

Highlight of the day for me was Leptodontium flexifolium,  and the Pellia neesiana was also nice. In addition to the bryophytes there was a remarkable collection of lichens, though putting a name to all of them is far beyond my current capabilities.

Additional linkage
Hybrid Forget-me-not
Leptodontium BBS Field Guide page

The location

The crew

The bryophtes - liverworts
 

Barbilophozia barbata

Pellia neesiana

Pellia neesiana

Aneura pinguis

Scapania nemoria

The bryophtes - mosses

Oligotrichum on bare soil bank

Oligotrichum with Nardia

Clamacium dendroides "forest"

Leptodontium flexifolium nestled into a rotting fencepost top

 

Orthotrichum - tenellum?

Grimmia donniana

Grimmia donniana

Sphagnum (rubellum?)

Warnstorfia exannulata

The vasculars

Parnassia palustris

Hybrid Myosotis x bollandica

The lichens

Rhizocarpon geographicum - "map lichen"

Omphalina umbellifera

Ramalina farinacea (fructose) and Parmelia saxatilis (foliose)

Usnea subfloridana

Stereocaulon dactylophyllum

Lecidea lithophila? (not ID'able in the field

Rhizocarpon reductum

Fuzzywuzzy Trichocolea

Another delight from D&G 19th October

Tetraphis pellucida, D&G, NS8108

A new one for me from D&G, and some nice memorable features. Those little gemma cups are the thing that I always remember from the field guide though

Zygodon viridissimus

D&G, NS8108, 19/10/2014

in the round

'jizz'

one branch/stem

whole leaves

leaf with propagules

leaf base

leaf tip

seta

propagule

Recording meet Dumfries and Galloway 19th October, 2014

A compact group of 5 (6 - forgot to count myself!) climbed, clambered and slid along the muddy slopes of the Glendyne area (NS8108). I managed to see some new bryophytes and the weather, despite early threats, stayed nice and mild - mostly.

Ground covered
Here's a map of the ground covered in NS8108 area and a bit more besides, with the straight road the walk back to the car. 28th October is when I remembered to stop the track recording! Luckily I was at least able to cut out all the extra recording from the drive home etc.
 

The place/people

Overview

Valerie scrutinises a stubble field

 

Group scanning for epiphytes

Waterfalls

Old walls beside the river (Lophozia ventricosa)

Bridge? what bridge?

Autumn leaves

The plants

A nice Homalothecium

Encalypta streptocarpa

 

Tetraphis pellucida

Hypnum andoi

Luxuriant Dicranum in the afternoon sun

 

Trichocolea tomentella

A splendid Rhodobryum

The peripherals - 'off-topic'

Sometimes there are other things besides bryophytes

Notch-winged Tortrix moth

Amanita muscaria - 'THE' toadstool

Witches butter fungus

Oddly capped fungus - no ID (yet!)

Curious cross between a buffalo and a sheep