Mosses and liverworts of Britain and Ireland : a field guide

Produced by a team of expert bryologists, this long awaited up-to-date, user friendly guide to identifying British and Irish bryophtes in the field, will become the definitive guide. Illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs. One entry per page which includes colour photographs, black and white drawings showing what species look like, together with notes on how to identify and distinguish similar species, habitat notes and distribution maps. The introductory section includes a illustrative gallery of some common brtophytes, for beginners not confident in the use of a key, as well as a general field key to common and distintive mosses and liverworts and another field key to most sphagnum mosses. At the rear of the book are tables with habitat lists plus index. Contents Foreword and Acknowledgements.. iii Preface.. v Introduction..1 Liverwort and hornwort gallery..5 Moss gallery..9 Field key to commoner and/or distinctive mosses and liverworts..21 Field key to Sphagnum..61 Calobryales..72 Jungermanniales..73 Metzgeriales..228 Sphaerocarpales..250 Marchantiales..251 Anthocerotales..272 Sphagnales..276 Andreaeales..311 Polytrichales..316 Tetraphidales..333 Buxbaumiales..336 Diphysciales..338 Archidiales..339 Dicranales..340 Pottiales..420 Grimmiales..505 Seligeriales..544 Timmiales..553 Encalyptales..555 Funariales..560 Splachnales..568 Bryales..578 Orthotrichales..641 Hedwigiales..665 Hookeriales..667 Hypnales..670 Habitat lists..825 Index..835