VOL. III. APRIL, 1904 NO. 4 



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ooutfiern Cafifornia Academuof ociences 



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 A. Davidson, C. M., M. D., Chairman 

 Melville Dozier G. W. Parsons 



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Page 

 A Preliminary Synopsis of the Southern California Cyperaceae, 



S. B. Parish 49 



The Bees of Southern California, T. D. A. CockereIvI- 56 



Catalogue of Indian Relics, etc., Mrs. M. Burton Williamson . . 60 



Transactions 64 



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A Preliminary Synopsis of the Southern California 

 Cyperaceae. 



BY S. B. PARISH. 



* Styles 2-cleft; acJienes lentiadar ; racJiis wingless ; spikelets 

 in a simple umbel, or capitate. 



-•- Scales folded and sharply carinate ; acJienes little flattened ; 

 anmials. 

 \/ 1. Cyperiis melanostachyus, HBK. Nov. Gen. 11 :207. 

 C. diandrus capitatus, Britton, Bull., Torr. Club*, 13:205.. C 

 diandrus castaneus, AVatson, Bot. Cal. 2 :214. 



Culm,s slender, 4dm. or less tall, about equalling the nar- 

 row leaves ; spikelets linear-oblong, much flattened, many flow- 

 ered, 6-lOmm. long; involucral leaves mostly 3, narrow, 1-2 of 

 them much elongated : scales ovate, obtuse, 2mm. long, dark 

 brown with pale or green keel ; stamens 2-3 ; achenes oblong, 

 subacute, gray, half as long as the scale. 



Common in wet soil, stream banks, etc., in the cismontane 

 region below 1,500 feet altitude. Los Angeles ; Braunton, David- 

 son. San Bernardino ; Parish, 

 by JDr. Britton. 

 V 2 Cyperus bromoides, Britton, nom. nov. C. unioloidea 



