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Mayhew
1948
Plant Catalogue
6.
May 14
Corner Grizzly Peak Road + Marlborough Terr., Alameda Co., Calif.
24. Brassica nigra (L.) Koch (Black Mustard)
Herb from 3 to 6 feet high; growing in a
Thick stand on a south-facing slope in
open chaparral; bright yellow flowers; slender
stems with petioled leaves; altitude 1100 feet.
25. Erodium cicutarium L'Her. (Red-stem Filaree)
Herb from 3 to 10 inches high; reddish
stems near the base; corolla light purple;
fruit with long beak; found growing along
a road cut on the side of a hill (west-facing)
along with Medicago apiculata, M. hispida, M.
lupulina, Baccharis, Artemisia, Cirsium; fairly
large amount of soil; altitude 1100 feet.
26. Sambucus glauca Nutt. (Blue Elderberry)
Tree-like bush about 10 feet high, growing
through a Baccharis bush on a north-facing
slope just below a road cut; other plants
near by were Rhus diversiloba, Cirsium,
Rubus parviflorus, R. vitifolius; altitude 1100 feet.
27. Medicago apiculata Willd. (Medick)
Herb from 6 inches to 2 feet long; 3-lobed
leaves; herbage clammy; corolla yellow; pods
coiled but unarmed; found along Grizzly Peak
Road about 75 yards north of Marlborough Terr.
growing with M. hispida, + M. lupulina, as well
as Erodium cicutarium, Artemisia and Baccharis;
altitude 1100 feet; soil fairly deep, but some-
what dry; The three species of Medicago
were intermixed so much that it was hard
to collect the specimens intact.