Marsham Heath
Superb autumn colour of Water Pepper
Water Pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)
Very short wings only just reaching the third tergite.
Coranus woodroffei
Western Gorse (Ulex gallii)?
Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia)
Spangle Gall Wasp (Neuroterus quercusbacarum)
Dry
Wet
A crustose lichen with muhsroom like stalked apothecia.
Main Key in Dobson
Thallus crustose or absent
Thallus not crustode-plocodioid
Podetai,pseudopodetia or mushroom shaped - Key E
Mushroom shaped
Baeomyces - Thallus granular to squamulose. Apothecia pink to brown on stalks
Growing on a lens of sand.
Thallus finely granular - Baeomyces rufus
Dry
Wet
Using Dobson
Thallus squamalose Key c
Apothecia brown k- or if absent, squamules never with ornage on uhderside - 10
Primary thallus squamulose or ± absent. Podetai prominent or not - 11 (In this case there were no podetia
Thallus predominately oof primary squamules- 21
Thallus c- 22
it is quite difficult because the next couplet distinguishes between squamules yellowish and squamules white.
But these are white? and you need to take -23
to get to the species.
Cladonia foliacea
A large colony of Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae)
Cladonia cristata?
Cladonia portentosa?
Good blue reaction to UV