VOL. III. JUNE, 1904 NO. 6 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ooutfiern Cafifornia Academu of ofiences 



COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION 

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

 Melville Dozier G. W. Parsons 



CONTENTS : Page 



A Preliminary Synopsis of the Southern California Cyperaceae, 



S B. Parish 81 



The Bees of Southern California, V, T. D. A. CoCKERKLL, ... . . 86 



Flora of San Clemente Island, by Blanche Trask, II 90 



Transactions 95 



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A Preliminary Synopsis of the Southern California 

 Cyperaceae. 



^ BY S. B. PARISH. 



^ Eleocbaris acicularis radicans, Britton Journ. N. Y. Mier. 

 Soc. 5 :105. E. radicans, Kunth, Enum. 2 :142. 



Usually taller ; scales tinged with brown ; tubercle more 

 acutely conical, enlarged at base, and more evidently discon- 

 tinuous with the summit of the achene. 



Apparently the commoner form throughout the Cismon- 

 tane region, ascending the mountains to 8,000 ft. alt. Pasa- 

 dena ; Braunton, Greata. San Bernardino ; Parish. Tahquitz 

 Valley, San Jacinto Mts. ; Hall Bear Valley, San Bernardino 

 T\lts. ; Parish. Texas to Southern California. 

 "^^ -»-^- Achenes obscurely puncticulose. 

 v^ 4. Eleocharis discifonnis, n. sp. 



Fibrous rooted annual; culms slender, striate, 10-15cm. 

 tall; spikelet lanceolate, 5-10 mm. long, 10-15-flowered ; scales 

 brown, with a pale midvein, the lowest broadly ovate, the 

 others ovate-oblong, obtuse, about 2mm. long; bristles 5, ex- 

 ceeding the achene, which is ovoid to obovoid, and 1 mm. long; 

 tubercle depressed and disciform, abruptly mucronulate, less 

 than one-fourth the length of the achene. 



Eastern base of the San Jacinto Mts., on the borders of 

 the Colorado Desert, June, 1901 ; 2013 H. M. Hall. 



