Dalgey Bay - the Green Man

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!

shaved surface to expose interior

the asci/spores

E&E

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