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Re: Pssst! Nigel...
Dec 24, 2004, 07:58
Mosses - favourite plants and just coming into their season this time of year. Been reading Writtle's "Sacred Mound", and if you actually translate the latin flowers to common names, a whole different picture emerges of what it would be like at Silbury. Ground ivy would have probably wound round the stones with its pale blue flower, bugle and self heal in the turf, red campion and rosebay willowherb, yellow buttercups, stitchwort, scabious. Fat Hen and Good King Henry to eat, and two mosses, one common on shaded tree trunks, rocks, and walls. The other, pseudoscleropodium purum(only pretending to be a moss) common throughout, on grassland or in heath and woodland clearings..... This was the landscape that our ancestors worked on and lived in, wonder what they would make of us arguing furiously about their circles, burial tombs, etc.
Happy christmas to everyone
Thelmax

p.s.Moss, my collie, got his name because of the plant and because if you are going to be shouting his name for the next 15 years, it has a soft tone to it, the same as the plant!
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