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Mayhew
1948
Plant Catalogue
4.
May 12 Strawberry Canyon, U.C. campus, Alameda Co., Calif.
15. (cont.) herbage hairy; corolla light blue, with
yellow or white crests at the throat; plants from
8 to 30 inches high.
May 13 1433 Spruce St. Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
16. Bellis perennis L. (Daisy)
Herb found in lawn; grows to about 6 inches in
height; rays white, disc yellow, sometimes rays tipped
with purple; leaves basal; altitude 100 feet; herbage
clammy.
17. Taraxacum vulgare (Lam.) Schrank (Dandelion)
Herb found growing in the lawn; grows from
3 to 10 inches high; corollas yellow; 2 sets of
inolucreal bracts, inner ones straight + erect;
outer ones reflexed; leaves basal; altitude 100
feet.
18. Bromus rigidus Roth. ("Ripgut" Grass)
Grass up to 30 inches high; open panicles;
found growing irregularly with several other
species of Graminae in an uncultivated piece
of ground next to a fence in back of the
house; altitude 100 feet.
19. Avena fatua L. (Wild Oat)
Grass growing up to 30 inches; heads nodding;
very common in an uncultivated piece of ground
next to a fence in back of the house; found
with several other species of Graminae; altitude
100 feet.
May 14 Corner-Grizzly Peak Road + Marlborough Terr., Alameda Co., Calif.
20. Ranunculus californicus Benth. (Calif. Buttercup)
Herb, 6 to 12 inches high; yellow, shiny corolla;