Dry Sandy Oakwood 93 



Ground vegetation. 

 Anemone nemorosa 

 Viola Biviuiana 

 Hypericum pulchrum 

 H. perforatum 

 OxaUs Acetosella 

 Sedura Telephium 

 Potentilla ereota 

 P. sterilis 



Epilobium angustifolium 

 E. montanum 

 Conopodium majus 

 Galium saxatile 

 Solidago Virgaurea 

 Hieracium vulgatum (agg.) f 

 H. boreale 



The species especially associated " with tlie heath- 

 formation which are often found in the dry oakwood 

 (see p. 99) are excluded from this list. 



It will be seen that this association, though frequently 

 with the same dominant, differs decidedly from the damp 

 oakwood association. Thus Quercus Rohur is often asso- 

 ciated with Q. sessiliflora (which is practically never found 

 in the typical damp oakwood on clays and loams) while 

 the beech often forms pure societies, reducing the under- 

 growth to a minimum. The birches are typically more 

 abundant (Plate Ilia), while Pyrus Aucwparia is charac- 

 teristic. On the other hand the association has many 

 fewer species of trees and shrubs. The ash and the hazel 

 (except apparently where planted^) are generally scarce 

 or absent. The same may be said of practically all the 

 other damp oakwood shrubs, except the hawthorn (Gra- 

 tsegus Tnonogyna) and the sloe or blackthorn (Prunus 

 spinosa). 



The ground vegetation also is much poorer and is 



' Oak-hazel copse is found pretty frequently on fairly dry soil ac- 

 companied by the typical dry oakwood ground flora. This is probably 

 due to planting. 



