Tue 25 March 13:47pm -Johnny Campbell (Second from left) and Amy-Jane Beer passed by on their way up Penyghent and on up the Pennine way
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| Fountains Fell Behind them -- turn right... |
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| and set off up Pen y ghent |
I crossed over the road (behind me from where I took this photo) and into the field and studied the mosses and lichens on a few rocks of exposed pavement -the rest of the pavement was under soil and mosses. 15 species of moss in no time. But I struggled to get more than seven lichens on the first few rocks SD843489 713589
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| Squamarina cartilaginea |
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| The rock I was recording. By the time I took this they had reached the summit. |
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| There was lots of Placynthium nigrum on the limestone- some fruiting |
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I moved to some more rocks 20m away SD8435771393
The Placynthium nigrum had a little bit of the parasitic lichen - Toniniopsis verrucarioides |
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| Toniniopsis verrucarioides on Placynthium nigrum |
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Acarospora glaucocarpa (This is quite close up)
Well that's my guess... but seems pretty similar to A cervina. |
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| Acarospora glaucocarpa on the Placynthium nigrum |
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| A big blob of Rhizocarpon umbilicatum - not many features on it in this photo but a thick thallus and it is turning a little yellow with K . |
So my lichen total was 13.
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