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Sphagnum Mosses (Genus Sphagnum)Observer
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This specimen was observed on Tuesday February 14, 2012 at around 12:00 at Shadow Lake Bog. It was growing alongside Hylocomium splendens and Pleurozium schreberi. Some of the distinguishing features of this genus include the erect growth with a capitulum atop a stem, they hyaline cells which are significantly larger than the chlorophyll cells, and the bog habitat.
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Lyell's Bristle-Moss (Pulvigera lyellii)Observer
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This specimen was observed on Thursday, February 23 2012 at around 13:00 on the Evergreen State College Beach Trail. This moss was found growing in clusters on several fallen branches. Appears to have an almost cushion life form, with the long stems radiating from a central point. Leaves spreading when wet, and highly appressed to the stem when dry.
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Lesser Pocket-Moss (Fissidens bryoides)Observer
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Found on Thursday 23 February 2012 at around 13:00 very near the beach off of the Everegreen beach trail. Found growing in very sandy soil on slope underneath outsticking tree roots. Very shady, moist habitat. Appears to be acrocarpous; sporophytes present and appear to be growing out of the tips of some stems. Identified as Fissidens genus by the presence of vaginant laminae.
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Lanky Moss (Rhytidiadelphus loreus)Observer
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This moss was found on Thursday 23 February 2012 at around 13:00. It was discovered on a fallen tree growing with other bryophytes, one of which looked like Pleurozium schreberi. Partial/filtered light; very moist. These mosses were growing in interwoven mats and that made a thick layer on the fallen tree and probably housed many insects. Identified by the clearly distinguishable widely spaced pinnate branches.
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Stairstep Moss (Hylocomium splendens)Observer
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This bryophyte was found in the Shadow Lake Bog on Tuesday 14 February 2012 at approximately 12:00. The conditions in which it was discovered includes open forest/flitered light, found off of trail on hummocks in bog, substrate seemed to be leaf litter. Clearly identified by the stair-step growth pattern and twice-pinnately branched stems. Also, found growing alongside several other mosses in the bog inculding what appeared to be Dicranum, Plagiothecium, Brachythecium, and Sphagnum.
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Whitish Feather-Moss (Brachythecium albicans)Observer
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Found growing in the rooftop garden located on the Seminar II Ebuilding on The Everegreen State Colleg campus. Completely open and exposed to sunlight. Growing with many other mosses some of which include Polytrichum piliferum, Niphotrichum elongatum, and Philonotis capillaris. Also, growing here were some very small vascular plants; some sort of weeds. This species was identified by the julaceous stems and the plicate leaves which are entire to minutely serrulate toward the tip; with a ovate-lanceolate shape.
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Tree Ruffle Liverwort (Porella navicularis)Observer
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Seen on Saturday, 28 January 2012 at around 12:00. Found on a fallen tree limb down in a ravine near running water. It was an open-lit coniferous forest with a lot of vegetation. This particular cluster of Porella was growing with what I identified as Hylocomiadelphus triquetrus. I came to the conclusion that this liverwort is Porella navicularis due to the green color, the presence of underleaves, and lateral leaves that are bilobed with the lobule on the ventral side.
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Found in the Bloedel Reserve in Washington on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012. It was found in a very shaded area next to running water and a Cedar tree. Completely covering the ground around the Cedar and alongside a moss that looked like a species of Kindbergia.
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Genus RhizomniumObserver
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Found in a moss garden in the Bloedel Reserve in Washinton at around 13:00 on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012. This organism was found growing on the ground in the open (no shade) with another moss: Polytrichum. Sporophytes present and about 3/4 inch long with a red seta.
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Bank Haircap Moss (Polytrichum formosum)Observer
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Found in a moss garden in the Bloedel Reserve at around 13:00 on Tuesday, January 24th. Growing on the ground with other mosses, one of which was identified as a species of Rhizomnium. Found in the open; not in a very shady area.
