Plate IV. Wet grassland. View of sole area of permanently wet grassland
August 1978. The short grass in the foreground contains creeping Cinquefoil
(Potentilla reptans Linn.), straight-beaked sedge (Carex demissa Hornem) and
other sedge species.
The hairy Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum Linn.) behind the two rush
clumps conceals a large patch of common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica (L.)
Bernh.) and false fox sedge (Carex otrubae Podp.)
David Corke
tight-headed form L. multiflora (Retz.) Lej. var. congesta (DC) Lej. Hairy
woodrush (Luzula pilosa (Linn.) Willd.) is apparently absent from the Heath.
Wet grassland, depressions and ruts contain six rush and eight sedge species
including toad rush (Juncus bufonius Linn.)', jointed rush (J. articulatus Linn.),
heath rush (J. squarrosus Linn.), oval sedge (Carex ovalis Good.), straight-
beaked sedge (C. demissa Hornem.), ribbed sedge (C. binervis Sm.) and
glaucous sedge (C. flacca Schreb.) Bristle Scirpus (Isolepis setacea (L.) R. Br.)
was found in 1977.
In temporarily flooded grassland, water blinks (Montia fontana (L.) ssp.
chondrosperma (Fenzl) S.M. Walters) is often common, whilst at the other
extreme, sand Spurrey (Spergularia rubra (L.) J. and C. Presl.) and slender
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