VOL. IV.] Lower California Grasses, 385 
sian River, Santa Cruz, Pacific Grove, and San Luis Obispo Bay, 
Cal. (Dudley). Reported from Vancouver (Macoun), Sonne 
River (Scouler), Santa Barbara (Mrs. Bingham). 
P. Torrey Wats., Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv, p. 303 (1879). 
Flowering stems abundant, elongated, usually 20-30 cm. to the 
lowest of the two to four fertile nodes. Pistillate spadices two to 
five at each node, a cluster terminating the stem, each 5 or 6 cm. 
in length. Staminate spadices shorter and shorter stalked, three 
to five at each node. Ripened ovaries 5 or 6 mm. long, and 
nearly as broad. Leaves numerous and .5 to 2 meters long, 1 to 
2 mm. wide, coriaceous, and oval in transection, dark olive- 
green. Sclerenchyma less abundant than in P. Scoulertz. Abun- 
dant on the ocean shores mixed with P. Scouleri, but inclining 
more to tide-pools and protected coves among the rocks, often 
seeming to grow in tussocks or turfs in the sand, but really aris- 
ing from sand-covered stones. Specimens examined from the 
Russian River, Cal. (Dudley), Farallones Ids., and Santa Bar- 
bara (Cal. Acad. Coll.), San Diego (Cleveland), Ensenada, Lower 
California (Brandegee), and many from Santa Cruz, Pacific 
Grove, and San Luis Obispo Bay, Cal. I have no doubt it 
extends to Vancouver and beyond, also much further south than 
it has yet been reported. 
LOWER CALIFORNIA GRASSES. 
AN ENUMERATION OF THE GRASSES COLLECTED BY MR. T. S. 
BRANDEGEE IN LOWER CALIFORNIA IN 1893. 
BY F. LAMSON-SCRIBNER. 
I have not had time nor the facilities, even if I had desired, 
to fall into line with the nomenclaturists of the day in this 
enumeration, but I have studied the plants of the collection care- 
fully, and so far as I have ventured to name them I believe they 
will be understood. I have been unable to consult the collec- 
tions of Bourgeau, Botteri, Liebmann, and some others, and it is 
very likely that I have erred in some of my determinations. I 
have, however, done the best that the facilities at my command 
would permit. a a sie, 
