WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 153 



2058. Rescue grass Bromus unioloides 



2059. Richardson's brome Bromus richardsonii 



grass 



2060. Large mountain Bromus marginatus 



brome grass 



2061. Smooth brome Bromus inermis 



grass 



X. HORDEAE 

 RYE-GRASS LOLIUM 



2062. Italian Rye-Grass Lolium multiflorum 



Roadsides, fields and waste places. Good forage, agricultural crop. Well 

 adapted to coast. Fields. Introduced. 



2063. Perennial Rye- Lolium perenne 



Grass 

 Xot common except as a lawn grass. Good pasture. Introduced. 



2064. Darnel or Califor- Lolium temulentum 



nia Cheat 

 Weed, common in oat fields, poisonous only when seeds are affected by a 

 funsrus. Frequent in oat fields and waste places. Of some value for hay, 

 but not worth cultivating. Not the cheat or chess of the eastern states. 

 Introduced. 



2065. Lolium subulatum 

 Introduced. West Berkeley only. Rare. 



2066. Monerma cylindrica 

 Salt marshes. Bay region to San Diego. 



2067. Lepturus incurvatus 



Mud flats and salt marches. Bay region to San Diego. 



2068. Scribneria Bolanderi 



Sandy or sterile ground. Yosemite region and occasionally elsewhere to 

 Washington. Rare. A low, slender annual with short, narrow blades and 

 slender spikes. 



WHEAT GRASSES AGROPYRON 



2069. Agropyron junceum 



Rarely collected and perhaps not now on the coast. Introduced. Lake 

 Merced near San Francisco. 



2070. Quack Grass Agropyron repens 



Introduced but not as troublesome on the coast as in the east. It has 

 persistent rootstocks difficult to eradicate. 



2071. Smith's Wheat Agropyron Smithii 



Grass 

 Dry, alkaline soil, Modoc County. Useful forage grass. 



2072. Agropyron subvillosum 

 Lassen County. 



2073. Parish's Wheat Agropyron Parishii 



Grass 

 San Bernardino County and Monterey County. 



2074. Agropyron laeve 

 Dunlap to Millwood. Rare. 



