With only 3 species required I thought I had enough in the house to complete the task, even if it meant scouring the shed for spiders. I thought it might come to that when the snow started to fall, but happily the snow vanished and ten minutes into lunchtime we were over the line.
I had intended to pick up a few species I know are in the intertidal and relatively easy, but when I got there I found the tide as high as it can possibly be (at which point my square is 1/2 submerged!). Still the gathered seaweeds did at least give up
Vertebrata lanosa.
I stuck with the maxim, "The easiest way to find new species is to look in new places" and walked the coastline, quickly picking up Weld and Red Dead-nettle where the grass runs out and becomes sand/rock. A happy find was more Spotted Medick, so it's at both ends of my current square.
The only species I took to the lens in the evening was the lovely
Cryptosphaeria eunomia. A nice side-effect of finding this one is that it nudges me into the top ten for fungi on the PSL charts - a spot I've been eyeing for some time!
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shaved surface to expose interior |
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the asci/spores |
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E&E |
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the stroma |
Numbers:
331 |
|
flowering plant |
Lamium purpureum |
Red Dead-nettle |
332 |
|
flowering plant |
Reseda luteola |
Weld |
333 |
|
alga |
Vertebrata lanosa |
A seaweed |
334 |
|
moss |
Scleropodium purum |
Neat Feather-moss |
335 |
|
moss |
Campylopus flexuosus |
Rusty Swan-neck Moss |
336 |
|
flowering plant |
Trifolium repens |
White Clover |
337 |
|
flowering plant |
Primula vulgaris |
Primrose |
338 |
|
flowering plant |
Vicia sativa |
Common Vetch |
339 |
|
fungus |
Cymadothea trifolii |
A fungus |
340 |
* |
fungus |
Cryptosphaeria eunomia |
A fungus |
341 |
|
moss |
Cirriphyllum piliferum |
Hair Pointed Feather Moss |
Wow, you're steadily and relentlessly forging ahead of the pack. 500 by end of Feb? ;)
ReplyDeleteMore or less 3 spp per day. Why not? If I make 450 I'll be pretty happy with that, though. Lot of green stuff coming through from below and it's getting light when I leave work. listing aside both those things make me happy!
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