BRIEFER ARTICLES 
NEW OR UNREPORTED PLANTS FROM SOUTHERN 
CALIFORNIA. 
SPARGANIUM GREENEI Morong, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 15:77. 1.79, fig. 
3—Collected near Ballona, in marshes near the coast of Los Angeles co., 
July 1904, by Geo. B. Grant. The type was collected at Olema, Marin co., 
and the plant is common there and at Lake Merced, near San Francisco, 
but has not been met with heretofore elsewhere. 
Poa HANSENI Scribner, U. S. Dept. Agric., Div. Agrost., Bull. 15: 
P- 53- pl. 9.—In an alkaline meadow at Rabbit Springs, 2700 alt., Mojave 
Desert, 4888 Parish, June 1901. This and the following grasses were 
identified at the Division of Agrostology of the U. S$. Department of Agri- 
culture. 
POA LONGILIGUA Scribner and Merritt, U. S. Dept. Agric., Div. Agrost., 
Cire. 9:3.—In open pine forests, Mill Creek Falls, 5sooft alt., San Ber- 
matdino Mts., 5043 Parish, June rgot. 
__ Poa secunpa Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1:271.—Collected at the same time 
and place as the preceding species, and distributed under no. 5044. 
__ Eracrostis reprans Nees, Agrost. Parag. 514. E. hypecoides B. S. P. 
"Prelim. Cat. N. Y. 69.—Los Angeles, Rev. J. C. Nevin, 1904. Probably 
4 Tecent immigrant. 
Festuca catirornicA Vasey, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1:277.— 
Forest clad slopes, Mill Creek Mts., Head of Edgar Cafion, 4ooo* alt., 
May 1881, 857 Parish; Mill Creek Falls, sooo alt., July 1892, 2490 
Parish. The type of this species was collected near San Francisco, whence 
extends to Oregon. The present report brings it nearly to the southern 
indary of the state. 
SITANION RicIDUM J. G. Smith, U. S. Dept. Agric., Div. AE, — 
-18:13.—Collected by Mrs. H. E. Wilder, June 1904, growing in the 
—Gevices of rocks on the summit of Grayback Mt., r1,725% alt. The 
‘Nearest station reported for this grass is Mt. Shasta, at the northern end 
ne state, but it may be expected on the intervening high summuts ~ 
the Sierra Nevada. 
__ JoNcus tenuis coNGESTUS Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. '7:450; 
- *Tairie Flat, 5,000°t alt., 3959 Parish, June 1895. 
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