The Wood Melick grass or Melica uniflora is found in just one area in these woods as far as I know, in the Scambles, not too far from one of the Bourne tributary streams. The soil here seems drier and less clay-rich than other parts of the wood.
It would be useful to tie this down, particularly as this is a new record. It is a very beautiful plant with its nodding brown rice-shaped heads on the ends of the pedicels(?).
Generally thought to prefer poorer soils, it is usually found in discrete patches suggesting most propagation is via the rhizomes as opposed to seed.
The following day I found a few plants of viviparous Cocksfoot by the dog bin, in the central triangle of grass. Here the flower parts develop instead into leaves. I have never seen this before.
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