• The illustrations for the talk
• The text of the slides for the talk
• Where to find out more about mosses
• Where moss species are usually seen listed by common name, list layout
• Where moss species are usually seen listed by scientific name, list layout
• Where moss species are usually seen listed by scientific name, grid layout
• Map showing some locations of mosses in Battersea Park

Displaying the illustrations:

• The illustrations are best viewed on a computer or tablet rather than on a smartphone.
• You need to ensure that your browser window is maximised, so that two photos are displayed side-by-side.
• Smartphones need to be rotated to landscape, so that two photos are displayed side-by-side.
• On an iPad you may need to rotate the screen 90° to portrait and then back to landscape for both illustrations to be displayed.

Each page of illustrations shows two photos which can be compared. In many cases, the left-hand photo shows how the moss appears when viewed normally, and the right-hand photo shows how the moss appears when viewed close-up.

Use the Next/Previous buttons to move to another page. On a touch screen you can also swipe left and right. You can also click on the hamburger icon ☰ in the top left corner of the pictures pages to show the list of species which are included.

Some of the species identifications are best-guess rather than confident. This is because some species are so similar that they cannot always be distinguished from photos.

The species pages have links to relevant pages on other websites:

• www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/
• Inaturalist records, in many cases showing identifications by experts, but not all the photos have been posted on Inaturalist.
• Wikipedia
• Google
• the page number in the British Bryological Society Field Guide is also shown.

The links to other websites are generated automatically. Some links to other websites do not work, as there are variations in the names of some species and some of the photos have not been posted to Inaturalist.

The photos are © Clive Freedman some rights reserved (CC-BY)

Also, there is a Youtube video of a springtail in moss (seen under a microscope).

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