Nicholaston

Bryological distractions during our Adder search at Nicholaston on Good Friday included Bryum algovicum (new for SS58), Ptychomitrim polyphyllum (first Gower Peninsula record), Racomitrum aciculare (seemingly uncommon in the lowlands) and Orthodontium lineare (a species I seem to be seeing a little more frequently this year).

rocks along lane at Nicholaston Grange with P. polyphyllum plants arrowed

Ptychomitrium polyphyllum 

Bryum algovicum in dunes below Crawley Bluff

B. algovicum exostome teeth with oblique articulations

Orthodontium lineare

Boxing Day pit stops

No real recording on an unusually dry day today, but a couple of pit-stops in Porthcawl and Margam produced a few records of local interest; these included Pseudocrossidium revolutum on a wall in Mary Street and the southern hemisphere alien Orthodontium lineare with an abundance of developing sporophytes on logs in Graig Goch Wood (photos above and below).