186 Naturalized Plants. [ZOE 
Lolium temulentum is quite widely distributed, both in cultivated 
and uncultivated lands, but never abundant in either, Z. perenne 
can hardly be called more than an occasional waif. 
Poa anuna is of frequent occurrence in tilled lands and about 
houses. It is thought to be indigenous as far west as Arizona,* 
but with us it does not occur in situations that would indicate that 
itissohere. P. pratensts, on the other hand, is certainly native, 
being not uncommon in remote mountain valleys at six to seven 
thousand feet altitude, where it often forms a considerable part of 
the natural meadows. About towns and farms it probably is usually 
an escape from cultivation. 
Andropogon Sorghum, var. halapensis,a plant with an unusual 
number of popular a/éases, was introduced to cultivation in Califor- 
nia under the name of Evergreen Millet some six years ago, and 
with such high laudation that farmers very generally experimented 
with it. The results were not satisfactory in competition with al- 
falfa, and its culture is entirely abandoned. It remains, however, as 
a naturalized plant, being often seen, at least in the San Bernardino 
Valley, by stream banks, roadsides, and sometimes as a trouble- 
some weed in arable lands. 
Phalaris Canariensis, the grass which produces the common 
canary bird seed, is very likely to occur in waste places, but I have 
no evidence of its being found within our limits, except, very unex- 
pectedly, at San Clemente Island,+ where it was collected by Mr. 
Lyon, and since on the adjacent island of Santa Catalina by Mr. 
Brandegee. t 
Phleum pratense. The“ timothy’’ of Eastern hay-fields has also 
turned up in quite as unlikely a place, having been collected in 1888 
by Dr. Palmer, at Victor, on the Mojave Desert, where he reports 
it growing on the banks of the river of the same name, “out of the 
reach of stock.”§ Its presence in that place is the more remark- 
able from the fact that this grass is not cultivated in southern Cali- 
fornia. But as Victor is a station on the Santa Fé Railroad it is 
probable that the seed may have been brought by some car from 
*Thurber, Bot. Cal., ii, 311. 
tLyon, Bot. Gaz., xi, 335- 
Zoe, i, 115. 
§Cont. U.S. Nat, Herb., No. 1, p. 8. 
