114 ERYTHEA. 



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Los Angeles, April 12, 1881, introduced, abundant (C. C. 

 Parry, specimen in herb. CaL Acad. Sci.). 



San Luis Obispo, 1889, abundant (Lemmon in litt.). 



Caliente, Kern Co., name of collector and date not stated, 



(specimen in herb. Cal. Acad. Sci.). 



San Jacinto, San Diego Co., May, 1891, (Mabel M. Miles, 

 specimen in herb. Cal. Acad. Sci.). 



Near Eden Vale railroad depot, in the Santa Clara Valley, 

 April 17, 1893, on a rocky uncultivated elevation in a 

 grain-field (J. Burtt Davy, specimen in herb. Univ. of 

 Cal.). 



From its geographical distribution, as detailed below, and 

 its habit under cultivation in England, it seems probable that 

 the caryopsis of this grass is tender and unfitted to with- 

 stand exposure to a rigorous winter, and that it thrives best 

 in a warm dry climate; we may therefore expect to find it ere 

 long in many other localities in California. 



The following account of its bibliography and geography is 

 the best I am able to give at this time, but is far from com- 

 plete, as I have not access to a sufficiently extensive collection 

 of agrostological literature to permit an exhaustive treatment 

 of the subject. 



Wherever a reference is not given at first hand, I have 

 cited the author from whose work I obtained it. 



ACHYRODES. Boehmer in Ludw. Defin. 420 (1760). 



[Cynosurus sp., L., Sp. PI. Ed. i. 73 (1753) Ed. ii. 107 



(1762).] 



[Lamarkia, Moench, Meth. 201 (1791); Lamarckia, 

 Koel., Gram. 376 (1802) ex Lam. & DC, El. Er. 



Mer 



H 



(1833-37) exBenth. & 



299; Endl, Gen. 101 n. 895 (1837); not Lamarkia, 



Medic 



ii. 17; nor Lnmajxkia, OUyi, Zool. Adriat. 258./. 7 



