Dillington

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Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)

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Elf Cup Sp

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Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)

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Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)

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A Hawthorn (Craetagus monogyna) growing through a SIlver Birch (Betulus Sp)

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Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphea heteromalla)

A moss with shoot dimorphism.
The primary stem laying adpressed to the bark of a tree but the fruiting shoots projecting stiffly away from the bark.

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Minute pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)

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Enchnanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) broad basal leaves.

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A splendid happy patterned partnership of Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata) {brown} and Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)

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This time fading into a Lichen Sp as well

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The unmistakeable lime green of Bird's-claw beard-moss (Barbula unguiculata)

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Dry, tightly rolled Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium horschuchianum)

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Probably Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) rather than a Lichen.

Troll's butter, spit of moon, fallen star, witch's jelly being among the panoply of names from Wikipedia.

The name going all the way back to Paracelsus 1493-1541

A combination of of the English 'nostril' and German "Nasenloch"

In other words

Snot Like

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Mature sporophytes

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Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)

Monoicious - Male & female organs on the same thallus.

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Even Scalewort (Radula complanata) with gemmae on the leaf margins.

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Forked Scalewort (Metzgeria furcata)

A dioecious species

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A well colonised & spectacular rootplate

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A stump engulfed.

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Wet woodland

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Willow Moss (Fontanalis antipyretica)

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Large mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium alopecuroides)

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