1918] PARISH+CALIFORNIA PLANTS 335 
PENNISETUM VILLOSuM R. Br. in Fresch. Mus. Sencken. 2:154. 
1837.—Occasional along streets and in waste grounds at Ventura 
(11020, September 19, 1916) and Santa Barbara. 
MUHLENBERGIA REPENS (Presl) Hitchc. in Jeps. Fl. Cal. 111. 
1912.—In marshy soil near Upland, Ivan Johnston,,October 2, 1916. 
The only other station reported from California is Coville and Funs- 
ton 228, from Furnace Creek, Death Valley. 
*SPOROBOLUS FLEXUOSUS (Thurb.) Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club 32:601r. 1905.—On dry gravelly plains at Leastalk (10328, 
June 3, 1915) and in the adjacent New York Mountains (10237) in 
the southeastern corner of the Mojave Desert. 
* PUCCINELLIA SIMPLEX Scribn. U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. “Agrost. 
Circ. 16:1. fig. 1. 1899.—In damp alkaline soil, Rabbit Springs, 
Mojave Desert (9799, April 26, 1915). 
ELYMUS CINEREUS Scribn. and Merr. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 29: 
467. 1902.—In dry bottom lands along the Mojave River at 
Victorville (10558, June 25, 1915). The only other reported Cali- 
fornia collection is Elmer 3662, from Lancaster. Both these stations 
are in the northwestern part of the Mojave Desert. The type was 
collected at Pahrump, Utah. 
SCIRPUS ROBUSTUS PALUDOSUS (A. Nels.) Fernald, Rhodora 
2:241. 1900.—Entirely filling the large pond formed by the run-off 
of Postoffice Spring, Panamint Valley (10109, May 11, IQI5). 
Probably this is the sedge reported by Covitte (Contr. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 4:215) as S. maritimus from Saratoga Springs in Death 
Valley, but no Scirpus was found there by the writer in May, 1915, 
nor was it seen elsewhere in the Mojave Desert, even on the Colo- 
rado River; but it is abundant at and below Fort Yuma, and is a 
troublesome weed in the irrigation canals of Imperial Valley. 
CLADIUM MARISCUS CALIFORNICUM Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:224. 1880. 
—In a swamp near Upland, Jvan Johnston, October 2, 1916. In his 
description WATSON cites two specimens, one from ‘‘a swamp near 
San Gabriel,” and the other from southern Nevada. The only sub- 
sequent collection in the state was Coville and Funston 231, from 
Furnace Creek, Death Valley. BRreweEr’s southern California col- 
lections were made in 1876, so that 4o years elapsed before the 
plant was rediscovered in the cismontane region, local botanists 
