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sian River, Santa Cruz, Pacific Grove, and San Luis Obispo Bay, 

 Cal. (Dudley). Reported from Vancouver (Macoun), Columbia 

 River (Scouler), Santa Barbara (Mrs. Bingham). 



1^ P. ToRREYi Wats., Proc. Araer. 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. I,eaves numerous and .5 to 2 meters long, i to 

 2 mm. wide, coriaceous, and oval in transection, dark olive- 

 green. Sclerenchyma less abundant than in P. Scoideri. Abun- 

 dant on the ocean shores mixed with P. Scoule^-i, 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), Eusenada, 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 5^et been reported. 



LOWER CALIFORNIA GRASSES. 



AN ENUMERATION OF THE GRASSES COLLECTED BY MR. T. S. 

 BRANDEGEE IN LOWER CALIFORNIA IN 1 893. 



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. 



February 26, 1894. 



