Ricciocarpus natans is a rather local and uncommon floating thallose liverwort of eutrophic standing water that appears to have declined in the last 100 years. This ethereal picture was taken by Des Callaghan https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ricciocarpus_natans.jpg using material collected from Scargh Bog, adjacent to Lough Owel, by Neil Lockhart.
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Racomitrium ericoides is widespread in the north and the west on open, often acid, gravelly soil
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Des Callaghan's beautifully detailed image of a Bryum capillare peristome can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryum_capillare_peristome.jpg.This page provides a large version of the file, that can be downloaded for free use, plus various details about the image. The real-world diameter of the subject is about 1.1 mm. The image is a composite stack of about 200 original images.
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Abietinella abietina var abietina is an uncommon plant of basic rocks, banks and ledges.
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Rhytidium rugosum is a robust calcicolous pleurocarp that favours well drained and usually open turf. It is very local in the UK.
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A freshly matured sporophyte of Sematophyllum demissum, with operculum just fallen and about to begin the first release of spores. Many thanks to Des Callaghan for submitting this.
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Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Pete Martin on a tombstone at Kingscote Church, Gloucestershire
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Lophozia obtusa, photographed by Dave Genney.
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Taxiphyllum wisgrillii , photographed on a BBS Border Bryologists meeting to Cherry Hill Camp, Fownhope, Herefordshire in January 2014.
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Mature capsules whose apical "lid" has been shed. Mossy bank above Daer Reservoir, South Lanarkshire. One of Stephen Buchan's beautiful pictures. See Green Light Images.
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