I did not realize that this moss comes down to near sea level in our area.
This is getting moved back to Homalothecium in 2013.
Growing on rotten wood in a seepy area. I used David Wagner's CD to key this out. I'm pretty sure I got it right.
Found on rotting wood in a moist wooded area. Keyed out with David Wagner's liverwort CD
Mostly two oil body per leaf cell. Reddish plicate perianth. This was growing in a good sized mat the middle of a trail. This liverwort is tiny and I forgot toe measure it.
At first I thought these were pin lichens, but they are so big! Then I did some more research and happened upon Metatrichia floriformis. I suspect these are slime mold spores!
There were dozens of these on the same log, they shared the log with a basidiomycete lichen.
This log was near a river.
At 30x I could see what looked like liverwort elators flexing and moving. I need to go back and get more of this so I can look at it again.
This algea magnified x1000 was found in an Evernia prunastri lichen. Trebouxia sp is the main photobiont for evernaia and most other algal lichens.
Asterochloris algea is the primary photobiont algea for Cladonia sp lichens. I found this algea in a Cladonia, therefore it is probably Asterochloris sp.
Here it is at x2000 magnification.
The last time I observed this I was probably wrong. But now 9 months later I have a better idea of what I am doing.
I found the secret to viewing lobes and stuff with a dissecting scope is to light them from below.
Dorsal lobes have a single line of discolored cells on some of the leaves. I feel pretty good about this ID.
It was growing on a tree..
One of those smooth stalked, flat-topped, non-almondy, woodland Agaricus spp.
On split log under hazelnut along trail in mixed conifer second growth
On split log under hazelnut along trail in mixed conifer second growth
On split log under hazelnut along trail in mixed conifer second growth
With abundant sporophytes on rotten log.
On small stump. I can hear the road from where I am standing. Mixed pine,Doug for, and Garry oak stand
Two needles per fascicle. Bordering Doug for and Garry oak second growth
Some kind of hard orange speckled gall on decomposing Garry oak leaf
Mixed Doug fir and Garry oak second growth stand. Moss fern and salad understory
It only took 3 days from the first rain for these to come up.
