Borhidi Attila: A Zselic erdei (Dunántúli Dolgozatok Természettudományi Sorozat 4., 1984)

in a separate association named Kelleboro dumetorum-Carpinetum within Fagion illyricum. The association is characterized by transitional features combined in it. In Zselic it may be divided up into two clearly definable subassociation groups including 5 subassociations or forest types altogether. They are: a/ dry, melick type /melicetosum uniflorae/ b/ semidry, pilose-sedge type /caricetosum pilosae/ c/ fresh, woodruff type /galietosum odoratae/ d/ fresh-semihumid, wood-sorrel type /pxalidetosum/ e/ humid, goutweed type /aegopodietosum podagrariae/ Types -ac occur on lessivated brown forest soils and belong to the dry subassociation-group, while the types d and e develop mostly on humic slope alluvium, and are included in the humid subassociation group. 14. The beechwoods of Zselic can be assigned to the Vicio oroboidi-rFagetum association. This widely distributed submontane beechwood association is divided up into four territorial variants or geographic associations: A/ croaticum, B/ subpannocium, C/ saladiense, D/ somogyicum.. The latter includes the beechwoods of Zselic with 7 subassociations or forest types distinguished within: a/ dry, neutrophilous, melick type/melicetosum uniflorae/ b/ dry, acidophilous wood-rush type /luzuletosum albidae/ • c/ semiarid, pilose-sedge type /caricetosum pilosae/ d/ fresh, neutrophilous, woodruff type /galietosum odoratae/ e/ fresh, acidocline, fescue type /festucetosum dryme'iae/ f/ fresh to semihumid, wood-sorrel type /oxalidetosum/ g/ humid, goutweed type /aegopodietosum podagrariae/. Types or subassociations a-e belong to the dry subassociation group-,""while subassociations f and g to the humid subassociation group according .to common species and similar soil conditions. From a practical viewpoint each subassociation is regarded as a separate forest type differing from the others in and way of reforestation. 15. The mixed oak forest stands, existing extrazonally in the eastern and southern parts of Zselic belong to the association of silver linden Turkey oak foreste /Tilio argenteae-Quercetum dalechampii-cerris. The Zselic association is represented fragmental s.tands and therefore much poorer in species than the Mecsek representations. 16. During forest studies some herbaceous plant associations were discovered and described, such as Cardaminetum amarae chrysosplenietosum, regarded in Western Europe'as a separate association. Similarly new to.science are threa subassociations /equisetetosum, angelicetosum and scirpetosum/ of Angelico-Girsietum oleracei. 17. Among the timber species of Zselic, beech, sessile oak and Skotch-pine are the most important for sylvicultural purposes in the region. Besides them increased attention and care are.required and deserved by silver linden, a hugh yielding timber tree mixed in rather great frequence in the forests of the region. It plays an important role in forming multistoried canopy and in the na-. tural renewal and reforestation, and increases the pre-use value of the forest stands to a considerable extent. 18. Scotch pine in Zselic must in any case regarded as a native tree species. Its role was the same as in the landscape of northern Zala and Göcsej in western Hungary, where emerged individuals or groups are intermixed in the 144