WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 133 



1806. Smilacina stellate 



On banks of the Truckee River. 



1807. Drops of Gold ; Disporum hookeri 

 Fairy Bells 



Shady woods of Coast Range. Flowers greenish white, berry scarlet. 



1808. Fairy Lanterns Disporum menziesii 



Stream banks, Coast Range north to British Columbia. Flowers whitish, 

 fruit yellow. 



1809. Fairy Bells Disporum trachyandrum 



Rare. Western slope of Sierra Nevada. Flowers tucked away on short, 

 pendant stalks beneath broad, thin leaves. 



1810. Asparagus Asparagus officinalis 



Garden plant escaped to low lands about Alameda. Flowers small, green, 

 pendulous. 



PICKEREL-WEED FAMILY PONTEDARIACEAE 



1811. Water Star Grass Heteranthera graminifolia (Schollera graminifolia) 

 Said to have been found in Mendocino County. 



1812. Water Hyacinth Eichornia crassipes 



Being introduced and spreading in streams in Fresno County. 



ARUM FAMILY ARACEAE 



1813. Lysichton kamtchatcensis 



Swamps near coast, Fort Bragg and northward to Alaska. 



CAT-TAIL FAMILY TYPHACEAE 



1814. Cat-tail Typha latifolia 



Common in marshy places by creeks, Coast Range, lower Sacramento 

 and lower San Joaquin. 



DUCKWEED FAMILY LEMNACEAE 



1815. Gibbon's Duckweed Lemna gibba 

 Abundant in ponds. 



1816. Smaller Duckweed Lemna minor 



\ ariable. Covering the surface of stagnant ponds. 



1817. Ivy-leaved Duck- Lemna trisulca 



weed 

 Cold springs and running water. 



1818. Lemna minima 



1819. Lemna valdiviana 



Xear Lone Pine on the south fork of Kern River. 



1820. Wolffia lingulata 

 In irrigation canals, Kern County. 



POND WEED FAMILY NAIDACEAE 



1821. Pondweed Potamogeton americanus 

 Ponds or slow creeks in valleys, at low elevation. 



1822. Pondweed Potamogeton lucens 



San Francisco southward, and eastward in small lakes and ponds. 



