I spent and hour and half this afternoon in the n.w. corner of NPT in mostly acidic upland grassland, heath and mire habitats. It was very dark, but thankfully dry, and I managed to get the square total up to 86. Nothing terribly exciting but
Pohlia camptotrachela (photos below) was a new species for me and is only the 6th tetrad in vc4. It was growing on a clay bank adjacent to a stream with associates including fruiting
Dicranella rufescens (photo above). Adjacent mire held a little
Sphagnum capillifolium ssp.
capillifolium (photo above), this surprisingly only the 8th vc41 tetrad, although there are 42 tetrads in which the binomial has been recorded. An Adidas trainer in the middle of an area of acid grassland supported fruiting
Bryum capillare and
Ceratodon purpureus.
In the same tetrad, a carpet of Sphagnum squarrosum was noted under willows on the east side of Bryn Mawr.
