THE WEEDS OF CALIFORNIA 



NOTES ON THE WEEDS OF CALIFORNIA. 



L. H. PAMMEL. 



During the month of A" . I Mrs j'am- 



mel spent a month visiting California. Our journey took us 



the Western Pacific railroad from S 

 railway \ sses ver the Sierra divide and down the Pe 

 river canyon, down the Yuba and Sacramento flood plains, 

 thence into San Francisco. At several points along the line 



- were made and some collecting was done. From S 

 Francisco we went over the Southern Pacific to B:_ - 3 



-inta Barbara and Los Angel — : m the 

 latter point over the Santa F to S Dieg 

 San Bernardino. At each of these places we- 

 an opportunity to collect plants and make notes on the more 

 common wee - 



Dr. Hilgard some years ago published some notes on the weeds 

 of California 1 . He states that the broad : t 1 t first -:rikes 

 the new-comer in California is that a number of plants that 

 are objects of careful culture east of the Re tains as 



well as in Europe, and that when depriv 



succumb, in California thrive and are persistenl - and 



many weeds which are conspicuous on the Atlan:::- 

 absent in California. He mentions the beet, celery, radish and 

 carrot as conspicuous weeds. Some of the smartweeds so com- 

 mon in the east do not maintain themselves in California, 

 casionally one finds the Pennsylvania smart - I aum 



Pennsylvanicum) in low grounds. The Spergula arvensis is 

 common in moist places along the coast. The E 

 um and E. moschatum are common plants everywhere in I 

 forma. The Oxalis cornkuhita is rather common in places. In 

 some places there is an abundance of Glycyrrh ■ 

 nel (Anethum gran - is common in many places and so 

 is the Conium maculatum and the caraway {Carvum ca 



and there in the vicinity of San Francisco one may ob- 

 serve the Teasel (Dipsacus] . The Madia saiiva is quite widely 

 distributed and generally is regarded as a troublesome weed. 



KJarden and " 



