THE VEGETATION OF MONTAUK 



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Undergrowth 

 Herbs 



Aralia nudicaulis 

 Epigaea repens 

 Melampyrum Hneare 

 Trichostema dichotomum 

 Chrysopsis mariana 

 Aster patens 



Figure 14. Pioneer oaks going out over the Downs from the lee side of Hither Woods. 



Solidago bicolor 



Carex pennsylvanica 



Danthonia spicata, mostly in openings 



Crocanthemum canadense 



Crocanthemum dumosum 

 The foregoing gives a fairly complete idea of the composition of the 

 Hither Woods near the edge of it, and the same general condition is found 

 some mile or more west of the contact. Quite unlike the contact between 

 the low wooded kettleholes and the Downs, which is very sharp, the Hither 

 Woods-Open Downs contact on the eastern edge is by no means so, as 

 our illustrations show (Figs. 14 and 15). There is in fact so much penetra- 

 tion of the Downs by these pioneer woody plants that just at this point there 

 seems unfolding before us a bitter struggle for supremacy between these 

 different types of vegetation, and the grassland is putting up the losing 



