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MeetingReport BBS Spring Meeting 2015 Britain’s rarest bryophytes, including Lophozia Freiburg, perssonii, Aloina rigida, Didymodon cordatus, Tortula vahliana, Pterygoneurum ovatum and P. lamellatum (Fig. 2), along with some rather South-west more familiar species such as Campylophyllum calcareum, Microbryum curvicolle and Tortula protobryoides. Sphaerocarpos michelii was Germany found in one place. Epiphytes were of interest: Orthotrichum pumilum and O. schimperi 12-17 April 2015 occurred on vine stocks, and O. patens (not yet known in Britain) was demonstrated on the bole Tom Blockeel and of a large tree. Towards the end of our circuit, David Long report on Michael showed us one of the few regional sites for Crossidium squamiferum, on a roadside cliff to last year’s additional the east of Bötzingen. rClockwise from top left; Fig. 3. View of the Kaiserstuhl In the afternoon there was time to visit a countryside. D.G. Long. Fig. 4. Entosthodon fascicularis. M. Spring Meeting Lüth. Fig. 5. The descent to Altvogtsburg. M. Lüth rFig. 1. Examining Loess banks near Bötzingen. D.G. Long second venue, at Schelingen, Ohrberg, a short drive from Bötzingen. The main interest here is he spring meeting at Freiburg was April 13 April 12 a long disused vulcanite quarry. The path to the This day took us on a tour of several interesting organised by Michael Lüth, who will Our first day began with a gentle walk around quarry took us through woodland, with some sites in the Kaiserstuhl area (Fig. 3). We spent the be known to many BBS members for Bötzingen in glorious sunshine, mainly on lanes familiar species on tree boles: Porella platyphylla, morning at Badberg, not far from the previous This outstanding photographs of bryophytes, through the vineyards around the town. The Isothecium alopecuroides, Homalia trichomanoides day’s venue at Schelingen, and likewise on both published and on-line. Michael’s home is substrate is calcareous loess, which is exposed on and Leucodon sciuroides. Grassland around the vulcanite. The habitat was calcareous grassland in Freiburg, and he has an intimate knowledge laneside banks and around the vineyards (Fig. 1). quarry held Abietinella abietina and Rhytidium with a very rich vascular plant flora. Bryophytes of the local flora. Our group numbered 12, and It supports many species of southern and sub- rugosum, and was the first of several sites visited in the turf included Abietinella abietina, was multi-national. In addition to Michael, continental affinities. Among them are some of that provided a fine display of pasque flowers Brachythecium glareosum, Entodon concinnus, the participants were: Tom Blockeel, Michael sFig. 2. Pterygoneurum lamellatum. H. Siebel (Pulsatilla vulgaris). The old quarry has several Rhytidium rugosum, Thuidium assimile, and in Girnt, Lars Großmann, Thomas Kiebacher, Liz notable bryophytes, including Gymnostomum slightly moister niches Hylocomium splendens Kungu, Felix Lindicke, David Long, Caroline viridulum, Pleurochaete squarrosa, Schistidium and Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus. A notable find by Pannell, Gordon Rothero, Henk Siebel and brunnescens, S. helveticum and an odd Tortella, Michael on a bare patch of soil was Entosthodon Senta Stix. In addition, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp probably a form of T. inclinata. On rocky slopes fascicularis (Fig. 4), the first record in the joined us on our excursion to Feldsee. The first near the quarry, under Michael’s guidance, we region for many years, and other gaps in the half of the meeting was based at Bötzingen in were able to see several patches of the xerophytic turf produced Rhodobryum roseum and Weissia the Kaiserstuhl region, and most of us stayed at thallose liverwort, Mannia fragrans, at one of longifolia. The descent from the top of Badberg Hotel Krone in the village. For the second half of its few regional sites. On our return to the car to Altvogtsburg took us down a steep rocky the week we moved on to the Hinterzarten area park, ice creams were available for welcome slope, with Grimmia tergestina on the outcrops in the southern Black Forest. refreshment at the end of a very warm spring day. (Fig. 5). 42 FieldBryology No115 | May16 FieldBryology No115 | May16 43 MeetingReport BBS Spring Meeting 2015 Britain’s rarest bryophytes, including Lophozia Freiburg, perssonii, Aloina rigida, Didymodon cordatus, Tortula vahliana, Pterygoneurum ovatum and P. lamellatum (Fig. 2), along with some rather South-west more familiar species such as Campylophyllum calcareum, Microbryum curvicolle and Tortula protobryoides. Sphaerocarpos michelii was Germany found in one place. Epiphytes were of interest: Orthotrichum pumilum and O. schimperi 12-17 April 2015 occurred on vine stocks, and O. patens (not yet known in Britain) was demonstrated on the bole Tom Blockeel and of a large tree. Towards the end of our circuit, David Long report on Michael showed us one of the few regional sites for Crossidium squamiferum, on a roadside cliff to last year’s additional the east of Bötzingen. rClockwise from top left; Fig. 3. View of the Kaiserstuhl In the afternoon there was time to visit a countryside. D.G. Long. Fig. 4. Entosthodon fascicularis. M. Spring Meeting Lüth. Fig. 5. The descent to Altvogtsburg. M. Lüth rFig. 1. Examining Loess banks near Bötzingen. D.G. Long second venue, at Schelingen, Ohrberg, a short drive from Bötzingen. The main interest here is he spring meeting at Freiburg was April 13 April 12 a long disused vulcanite quarry. The path to the This day took us on a tour of several interesting organised by Michael Lüth, who will Our first day began with a gentle walk around quarry took us through woodland, with some sites in the Kaiserstuhl area (Fig. 3). We spent the be known to many BBS members for Bötzingen in glorious sunshine, mainly on lanes familiar species on tree boles: Porella platyphylla, morning at Badberg, not far from the previous This outstanding photographs of bryophytes, through the vineyards around the town. The Isothecium alopecuroides, Homalia trichomanoides day’s venue at Schelingen, and likewise on both published and on-line. Michael’s home is substrate is calcareous loess, which is exposed on and Leucodon sciuroides. Grassland around the vulcanite. The habitat was calcareous grassland in Freiburg, and he has an intimate knowledge laneside banks and around the vineyards (Fig. 1). quarry held Abietinella abietina and Rhytidium with a very rich vascular plant flora. Bryophytes of the local flora. Our group numbered 12, and It supports many species of southern and sub- rugosum, and was the first of several sites visited in the turf included Abietinella abietina, was multi-national. In addition to Michael, continental affinities. Among them are some of that provided a fine display of pasque flowers Brachythecium glareosum, Entodon concinnus, the participants were: Tom Blockeel, Michael sFig. 2. Pterygoneurum lamellatum. H. Siebel (Pulsatilla vulgaris). The old quarry has several Rhytidium rugosum, Thuidium assimile, and in Girnt, Lars Großmann, Thomas Kiebacher, Liz notable bryophytes, including Gymnostomum slightly moister niches Hylocomium splendens Kungu, Felix Lindicke, David Long, Caroline viridulum, Pleurochaete squarrosa, Schistidium and Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus. A notable find by Pannell, Gordon Rothero, Henk Siebel and brunnescens, S. helveticum and an odd Tortella, Michael on a bare patch of soil was Entosthodon Senta Stix. In addition, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp probably a form of T. inclinata. On rocky slopes fascicularis (Fig. 4), the first record in the joined us on our excursion to Feldsee. The first near the quarry, under Michael’s guidance, we region for many years, and other gaps in the half of the meeting was based at Bötzingen in were able to see several patches of the xerophytic turf produced Rhodobryum roseum and Weissia the Kaiserstuhl region, and most of us stayed at thallose liverwort, Mannia fragrans, at one of longifolia. The descent from the top of Badberg Hotel Krone in the village. For the second half of its few regional sites. On our return to the car to Altvogtsburg took us down a steep rocky the week we moved on to the Hinterzarten area park, ice creams were available for welcome slope, with Grimmia tergestina on the outcrops in the southern Black Forest. refreshment at the end of a very warm spring day. (Fig. 5). 42 FieldBryology No115 | May16 FieldBryology No115 | May16 43 We moved on to Merdingen at Tuniberg, for Die Lebermoose Europas, published in 1951- water, above normal flood levels, there were some lunch at the top of a steep loess bank above a 1958 (Fig. 8). But there was other bryological nice patches of Anomodon attenuatus and even vineyard, where we assembled for a group interest in the cemetery, too. It is possibly the one of Pseudoleskeella catenulata. From here we photograph (Fig. 6). The highlights on the loess last remaining site for Entodon schleicheri in the moved on to the nearby Isteiner Klotz, a ridge of were Crossidium crassinerve, a southern species Freiburg area, growing remarkably on the top of Jurassic limestone. Rhynchostegium rotundifolium near the northern limit of its range in Europe, an asbestos roof (Fig. 9). Michael told us that it was the highlight here, growing on the side of a and a large population of Tortella inclinata, was formerly more widespread on old concrete limestone boulder. Plasteurhynchium striatulum along with other species that we had seen at fortifications by the Rhine. Also in the cemetery and Schistidium elegantulum were also present. Bötzingen. From here we drove to another loess were some interesting epiphytes: Orthotrichum We spent the afternoon at Berghauser Kapelle, bank on a roadside at Berg, between Munzingen obtusifolium, O. patens and Syntrichia pagorum, a Schönberg, in an orchard of widely spaced and Oberrimsingen. This was a known site for small moss variously treated as a distinct species cherry trees with some thickets of blackthorn Pterygoneurum subsessile, a distinctive species or a form of S.