Environmental Engineering Reference
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FIG
144.
Royal fern, a spectacular plant that sometimes grows up to 3 metres high. (David Painter)
The surviving fragments of oak-birch woodland have, where they are least disturbed, a varied flora
that includes a number of upland species. The upper part of Penrice Wood, for example, has a luxuri-
ant moss community including fuzzy fork-moss
Dicranum majus
, feather moss
Hylocomium splendens
,
juicysilk-moss
Plagiothecium undulatum
androse-moss
Rhytidiadelphus loreus
underanopencanopyof
birch and oak. Rose-moss can be particularly abundant on the floor of Gower woodlands, and is distin-
guished by a reddish stem, with the leaves having the appearance of being swept to one side of the stem
and branches. In the upper part of Clyne Wood there is an open wood of oak and birch with hazel, alder
