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Blasia pusilla

Blasia pusilla with flask-shaped gemmae receptacles, photographed by Caroline Pannell from a specimen collected in Co.Kerry.

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Pseudoscleropodium purum

Although a common grassland moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum is rarely found in fruit. This image was submitted by Robin Stevenson, from a patch Bob Ellis found at a recent Norfolk Bryology Group meeting near King's Lynn.

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Dicranum polysetum

Dicranum polysetum, growing at edge of wooded bog in Scots pine dominated woodland, Anagach Woods (vc95). First found here in 2001, the original patch still present in 2009, is virtually unchanged in size.

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Riccia cavernosa

A conservative estimate of over ten thousand coalesced thalli of Riccia cavernosa at Maudlin Pond near Chichester is probably the most important ephemeral site in southern England. The pond which is only rain filled has no entry or exit drainage ditches. This year we have had an extremely dry summer in this part of Sussex and the pond is now entirely dry, which is only an occasional happening.

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Harpanthus scutatus

Harpanthus scutatus, a mainly western plant of damp sandstone, but photographed at Tilgate Wood, Wakehurst Place, E.Sussex at the BBS autumn meeting 2009.

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Lunularia cruciata

Lunularia cruciata is a common plant but is dioicous and sporophytes are uncommon because males are rarer than females and the two sexes are not often found together. Richard Fisk did find both on a roadside bank adjacent to bridge over the river Glena near Knocknagashel Co. Kerry on the BBS 2009 summer field meeting. The collected material subsequently produced sporophytes when grown on.

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Hedwigia stellata

Hedwigia stellata, photographed together with a few shoots of Hedwigia integrifolia at Byne Hill, Ayrshire on the 2009 BBS Spring Meeting.

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Scorpiurium circinatum

Scorpiurium circinatum, photographed on a limestone wall at St.David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire.

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Pallavicinia lyellii

Pallavicinia lyellii, photographed by Howard Wallis on a BBS Southern Group meeting to West Hoathly Rocks (v.-c. 14) in March 2009

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Epipterygium tozeri

Epipterygium tozeri, a plant of shaded sheltered banks, especially in the SW. Photographed during the Borders Bryologists excursion to Llangattock Lingoed in January 2009.

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