I am having to self-isolate at the moment due to having covid, so I made a field trip to my back garden and picked up a clump of moss that had been washed off the roof by the recent rain. This is the first time I have dissected a moss and examined the sections under my microscope. I think this moss is Bryum capillare, one of the UK's most common mosses.
Slides: leaf and capsule
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Morphology of moss
Illustration from Plant Science 4 U
Morphology of moss capsules
Illustration Harvard Flora of North America
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I am grateful to receive corrections if I have made an identification error.