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Mullaghagarry wood, again looking for mosses.

 

Bright with a cold wind.

Four shots of Plagiothecium undulatum - a very beautiful moss.

    

    

There's a dark overhang on a vertical rock surface with a perpetual drip of water that keeps the rock and soil very moist. I found a number of mosses and these liverworts. Calypogeia sp. (either C. muellariana or C. fissa) and Pellia epiphylla. Leaves in the LH specimen are about 2-3 mm long, and the thallus on the RH specimen is about 4mm wide.

    

 

I also found this Ochrolechia parella lichen with red cracks in the thallus. I'm not sure if the red colouration is the lichen or a parasite: the few lichenicolous fungi I've found to date have been red/pink.

 

This little (1 cm) slug was blowing in the wind suspended from an overhanging branch.

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