Forestry Tracks in north Pembs

Dipping briefly into a couple of plantations in the north of the county recently has yielded a few nice records. Frenni-fawr near Crymych had some Ditrichum lineare on an acidic track edge with Diplophyllum obtusifolium and Pohlia drummondii. It's a second site in the county for the Ditrichum and not too far from the old slate quarry which holds the original population. There's a closer quarry which may have supplied the stone for the track - perhaps there's some there too.

A wooded valley south of Maenclochog had a little used damp track with plenty of Blasia pusilla and Anthoceros punctatus, only a second county site for the former. Pohlia lescuriana, Pohlia drummondii and Ditrichum pusillum were here too.

Rhizoidal gemma of Ditrichum pusillum

No luck with my search for Daltonia on streamside willows, but there was a bonus in the form of Violet Waxcap Chromosera (Hygrocybe) viola on a clay streambank. I think only the second Welsh record, the first being from my farm.

Violet Waxcap