150 WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



2018. Orcuttia Greenei 



Known only from Chico. Lemmas 5-toothed at apex. The nerves 

 extending into the teeth. 



2019. Giant Reed Arundo donax 



Introduced ornamental, frequently cultivated as a windbreak. 



2020. Common reed Phragmites communis 



Culms as much as 12 feet high from creeping rhizomes. Fresh water 

 swamps, marshes and around springs, Mendocino County, Suisun marshes, etc. 



2021. Low Tridens Tridens muticus 



Tridens pulchellus (syn. Triodia) 

 Dry slopes, central Sierra Nevada, South Mohave, etc. 



2022. Dissanthelium Californicum 



An annual, known only from California, Tassajara Hot Springs; San 

 Clemente Island. 



ERAGROSTIS 



Over 100 species are known in the world, the majority being in the Old 

 World, chiefly in the tropics, closely allied to Poa, Blue grass, but with three- 

 nerved instead of five-nerved lemmas. There are eight species in California, in- 

 habiting chiefly, dry sandy places, fields, barren hills. 



These species are of little or no value for forage, except one species, Eragrostis 

 higens which is found in San Diego County where it is grazed. It makes good 

 winter forage and is one of the earliest grasses to begin growth in the spring. 



2023. Anthochloa colusana 



A low cespitose annual with flat blades and panicles partially included in 

 the sheaths; only known from Colusa County in uncultivated alkali (goose- 

 lands). 



MELICA 



About thirty species known, with eighteen in the United States, and fourteen 

 of these in California. 



2024. Bearded melic- Melica aristata 



grass 

 Fertile lemmas, tipped with a short awn. Plant not bulbous, dry woods 

 and slopes and meadows. In the Sierra Nevada from Fresno County north- 

 ward. 



2025. Onion grass . Melica bella 



Washington to central California, characteristic of rocky woods, ravines 

 and hills in yellow pine belt, never in wet situations. Panicle narrow, branches 

 short, erect; scattered, so not very valuable as forage. 



2026. Bulbous-rooted Melica bulbosa 



melic grass 

 Mountains and rocky woods, Ventura County, northward to Oregon. 

 Spikelets small, tawny or purplish, glumes shorter than lemmas. 



2027. Small onion grass Melica fugax 



Washington to California. In mountain valleys, open pine woods and dry 

 mountain sides. Highly palatable to all classes of stock. 



2028. Geyser's onion- Melica Geyeri 



grass 

 Oregon to central California. In pine woods along streams and moist 

 canons. 



2029. Tall melic-grass Melica f rutescens 



Confined to California. In southern California at low altitude growing 

 in dense clumps. 



