Sphagnum Collection

Crested partridge and buttonquail
Crested partridge, Rollulus rouloul 1 and Madagascar buttonquail, Turnix nigricollis or Turnix nigrifrons 2. Crittonice coronata, Emipodio a benda nera

Bryophyta mosses: Thamnobryum alopecurum 1, Eurhynchium pumilum 2, Polytrichum commune 3, Sphagnum palustre 4, Splachnum luteum 5, Hypnum ligulatum 6, Rhodobryum roseum 7, Physcomitrium eurystomum 8

Collecting sphagnum moss for dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
Picking up sphagnum moss on the moors on the Royal Duchy of Cornwall estate near Princetown for use in surgical dressings during the First World War

Sphagnum moss manufactured for surgical dressings, WW1
Page from The War Budget reporting on the use of sphagnum moss, harvested in peat bogs, and processed into antiseptic surgical dressings during the First World War

Industrial Ireland in wartime: how Belfast is doing its bit, including with making ships and munitions, gathering sphagnum moss for wound dressings, and sending men for the front. 1916

Wonderful war work of the women of Ireland. Splendid energies of Irishwomen of all the political parties during the First World War. 1916

Making sphagnum moss dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
A group of cutters and machinists at Princetown on Dartmoor making cases for sphagnum moss which would become surgical dressings during the First World War

Potted Plants
Community pots - the tiny plants have been removed from flasks and are pricked off into pots. The compost is sphagnum moss and osmunda fibre - finer than normal. Date: 1955

Drosera Rotundiflora
ROUND-LEAVED SUN-DEW on sphagnum moss

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