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a first look at mosses
Out to look at mosses, with Pojar + McKinnon and a sketch paper. No magnifier; need one.
Moss (1) on the vertical faces of concrete stairs. Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans? Wants soil. Schistidium apocarpum? "Reddish-green" (this just green). Sporophytes "almost always present" (not apparent here to me).
(2) on a rock surface by the stairs. flat, feathery. Hypnum subimponens? Leaves "strongly curved to one side".
(3) in grass looks like a Polytrichum. Leaves tipped with a red-brown hairpoint -- suggests P. juniperinum ("toothed red bristle-point"). Lower stems are reddish; young shoots red-cladded right up to the leafing. In nearby patch of ?same species, many have a cup at the top, 3-6 mm across, roughly pentagonal, patterned inside with radiating arrowhead scale-leaves, rubescent. These cups are in the book's photo, but what are they? Rainsplash cups? The web says that "Male [P. commune] possess a cup-shaped structure at the tip in which sperm develop." Neighbor said she had given me a looking-over to see if she'd have to resuscitate me, but judged not.
Moss (4) on sidewalk, extensive, common. Old growth red-maroon. shoot tips bent over, like hockey sticks. Bryum miniatum? "2-5 cm high" and this is under 1 cm but then again gets walked upon; leaves "blunt", and are these? Need magnifier!
Moss (1) on the vertical faces of concrete stairs. Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans? Wants soil. Schistidium apocarpum? "Reddish-green" (this just green). Sporophytes "almost always present" (not apparent here to me).
(2) on a rock surface by the stairs. flat, feathery. Hypnum subimponens? Leaves "strongly curved to one side".
(3) in grass looks like a Polytrichum. Leaves tipped with a red-brown hairpoint -- suggests P. juniperinum ("toothed red bristle-point"). Lower stems are reddish; young shoots red-cladded right up to the leafing. In nearby patch of ?same species, many have a cup at the top, 3-6 mm across, roughly pentagonal, patterned inside with radiating arrowhead scale-leaves, rubescent. These cups are in the book's photo, but what are they? Rainsplash cups? The web says that "Male [P. commune] possess a cup-shaped structure at the tip in which sperm develop." Neighbor said she had given me a looking-over to see if she'd have to resuscitate me, but judged not.
Moss (4) on sidewalk, extensive, common. Old growth red-maroon. shoot tips bent over, like hockey sticks. Bryum miniatum? "2-5 cm high" and this is under 1 cm but then again gets walked upon; leaves "blunt", and are these? Need magnifier!