spores

Woolly Fringe moss Racomitrium lanuginosum tuft with one hairy shoot and one lone leaf

Common haircap moss Polytrichum commune tuft of moss with detail of wet and dry moss fascicle, individual leaf, immatire capsule with calyptra and a wet mature spore capsule held horizontally

Cypress leaved Plait moss Hypnum cupressiforme with detail of one leaf, the spore capsule, and a fascicle

Grimmia pulvinata and Tortula muralis moss growing on stone, both bearing spores. Details of individual spore capsules and individual leaves included

Heath Plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum tuft of moss and details of an individual fascicle and one leaf

Maidenhair spleenwort Asplenuum trichomanes tuft of this small and pretty fern found growing in a churchyard wall

Intermediate Hook moss Scorpidium cossonii with individual fascicle and one leaf

Harts tongue fern Phyllitis scolopendrium one leaf showing spores

Hard fern Blechnum spicant with basal fronds and the paler erect fronds at the centre of the plnat, roots included

Ash dieback symptoms Fraxinus excelsior Chalaria showing damaged inside of wood, damage on bark, little white fungal bodies, withered leaves on the branch, and individuall diseased leaf, the tree with exposed branches due to die back and a branch with siwtheres fronds of leaves on it

Lichen fruiting bodies study examining the different means of reproduction visible under the microscope shown by different species of lichens

Leaves and bud and flower of a rose covered wuith powdery mildew and mould, and causing discolouration of the leaves