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'Waucoba GJVews- - .. .Sponsored by The Bishop Museum" Historical Society. Bishop, Ca. 93514 . Volume i i .S!-,pp1emen t 1 .Founded and Edited by Enid A. Larson. Box 265. Big Pine. Ca. 93513 4 IssiJesperyearNotes on Inyo County Grasses - 3The Oat Tribe (Aveneae) in the Inyo Sierra. . By John Thomas Howell

Avena. Oat.sativa L. Cultivated Oat. Fleetingly spontaneous a.long roads and trailsand about pack stations, as at Carroll Creek cQrral. Introduced.Danthonia. Oat Grass.intermedia Vasey. Moist or dry soil in rocky places and meadows, subalpineon Rock C r ~ e k up to 11,000 f t .unispicata (Thurb.) Munro. Dry rocky flats, Rock Creek at 11,000 ft.Deschampsia. Hair Grass.caespitosa (L.) Beauv. Moist or wet meadows, common, up to 11,000 f t .(to 12,500 ft. elsewhere in the Sierra).danthonioides (Trin.) Munro. Drier meadow borders, often in disturbedsoil; Mosquito Flat, Rock Creek, 10,300 ft.elongata CHook.) Munro. Moist soil; Mosquito Flat, Rock Creek.Koeleria. June Grass.macrantha (Ledeb.) Schultes. Dry sandy or rocky flats and ridges, upto 12,200 ft . Erroneously called !. cristata.Schismus.barbatus (L.) Thellung. Sandy flats and slopes; roadside in Nine-mileCanyon at 3400 and 4000 ft. Common at lower elevations in Kern Co.Introduced.Sphenopholis. Wedge Grass.obtusata (Michx.) Scribn. A rather rare grass found in alkaline ormineralized seepages. No Inyo-Sierra record known bu t to be expected;collections have been made elsewhere in Inyo Co.Trisetum.canesce.ns Buckley. Found on Pine Creek at 8000 ft. under aspens andwillows by Victor Duran in 1932.spicatum (L.) Richter. One of the commonest and most variable Sierrangrasses, in meadows, on gravelly flats, and on rocky ridges, up to

12,200 ft. Reputed to be the most widespread flowering plant inthe world. Many varieties have been named; 4 occur in the Sierra.Wolfii Vasey. Moist or wet soil of meadows; Rock Creek at 10,300 f t .

GRASSES " SEDGEJohn \4ehausen reports an addition to liThe Timothy Tribe in the Inyo Sierra" (Waucoba NewsVol. 1, Supplement). HubJenbergja montana (Nutt.) Hitchc. was collected on the south-facingwall of the South Bairs Greek cirque at about 11,200 ft.--as predicted by J.T.Howell. Also,two new locations In the Sierra Nevada for a sedge, tncuryjformJs Hkze. var. dana,nsis(Stacey): The plateau atop Striped Ht. (Inyo Co.) at 12,800 ft. and the plateau southwestabove Woods Lake (Tulare Co.) at 12.000 ft. Both of these plateaus are sltghtly north-facing.(See Topomap: Ht. Pinchot Quad.) t1***t1*tt ed.

MONO - The BeautifulREMEMBERING. In August i t wil l be 40 years since I took my 1938 annual vacation as a 2-weeks "post-man's holiday". I t was a camping-tr ip with my f r iends, Martin Jussel and Frances Payne, and our object ive was the Noldeke cabin on Whiskey Creek near Tom's Place, Mono Co. The t r ip was noteworthy in several respects but i t was par t icu lar ly remarkable in that i t net ted more new species and var ie t ies than any other Cal i fornia t r ip I have ever taken, a to ta l o f9 with 3 named for Mono Co. The Mono Co. plants were: Astragalus Johannis-Howelli i Barneby, A. monoensis Barneby, Eriogonum nodosum var. monoense Stokes, Lupinus moneniis Eastw., L. rimae Eastw., and Phacelia Peir .oniana H o w ~ l l . On Mt. Dana in adjacent Tuolumne Co. the plants were: Carex danaensis Stacey, C. subnigricans Stacey, and Lupinus danaus var. bicolor Eastw. Also from Mono Co. were 2 topotypes of rare species which I had recent ly named: Eriogonum ampullaceum and Penstemon papi l la tus . I t was SOME TRIP! - J .T. Howell

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PLANT LIST FOR EUREKA HIES ( A: annual ; P: perennial; WA: winter annual; Sh: Shrub)A Abronia tyrbjnata P E r i g n e y r ~ n puJcbeJJumSand verbena _Tridens py)cheJIgs)P (or WA) AJljona incarnata Fl uff-g rassWindmill s A Eupbgrbia mfcromcraA Aotirrhinum king'; Sonoran sand-matLeast snapdragon A EyphQrbia ocellata var. arenfcglaP Astragalus Jentiginosys var. m i c ' n ~ Yellow-flowevered spurgeEureka locoweed A Gilia campaouJataWA A s t r a g a l y ~ labulooum Bell 9 i1 i aSand locoweedA A i l l la leptgmer jaAtrichoserjs platyphyJla Sand giliaParachute plant Sh HymenocJea sal solaSh A t r i p l e ~ canescens CheesebushFour-wing saltbush P Kechla americanaSh AtripJex coofertifolia Gray mollySh"dsca Ie Sh Larrea tridentataSh Atrjplex pglycarPa Creosote bushAllscale A M a l a ~ t b r i x son,hQjdeA Atrjplex argeotiy Yellow saucers

Si1 versca1e A .Hama. dem iss umA or P Ba j] Va p1 eni radIa ta Purple matWoolly rna rig01 d P Oengthera ssp. eurekenslsA Bgutelgua barbata Eureka primrose- an endemicSix weeks grarna WAi\ 0engthera prtmtyeriCamissonia cJayiformis ssp. iotegrjQ( Large yellow primrose(wh i te flowers) Opuntia basilarisA Camissonia clayiformis ssp. lancifo1ia Beavertail cactus(yellow f1 owers) P Oryzopsis hymenoidesA Caylanthu cooperi Indian rice-grassCooper caulanthus A Pa1a rex ia .a..clsia.P Chaetadelpha wheeleri Spanish needleA broom-l ike perennial A rectis pappoliaA ChenQPQdjum incanum Chinch weedA Psa thy(otes .iln.O.Y.S.A C1eome sparsifgliaNaked cl eome A Sir t R r ~ ~ t i s n ' j ' i l f r * ' ) " C " ~ "A Corjspermum hysQpjfQJjym Barbwtre Russian thistleBugseed P Sphaera1cea ambiguai\ C r y p t a o t h ~ ~ i r c y m s c j s s ~ Apricot mallowCapped forget-me-not P StanliYa pjnnata ssp. ioyoonsjsA Cryptantha mlcrantha Inyo Desert-plumePurple-rooted forget-me-not P Stephanomerja paucjflgraSh freD!Qnti I Desert milk-asterFremont dalea P Swallenia alexandraeSh pQ}yadenla Eureka dune-grass - an endemicDotted da lea P Syaeda tarreyanaA Dicoria caOiscens ssp. ,Jarkai InkweedClark dicoria P T;9y;11a p l i ~ l t a (Cgldenla pJiklta)A Eriggooum inflatum String plantDesert trumpet ******************************************1**A ErjQg6num insigne The above l is t of plants refers to thoseLadder buckwheat which occur on or closely bordedng theA ErioggOum macuJatum Eureka Dunes.Spotted buckwheat --Mary DeDeckerA Erjogonum reniforrne Independence, Ca.Kidney-leaved buckwheatA EriOSQoum trlchooesLi tt l e trumpet

PLANTS NOTED AT THE SALINE VALLEY DUNESA C yptantb,a WS tata. a small gray annual A Dioorja caOesCeos ssp. cgnes,sns. Desert dicoria Sh Larrea tridentata. Creosote bush Peta10nyx thurberi. Sandpaper plant Sh PrQsOgsis glandulQsa var. torreyana. Mesquite

I I Other plants undoubtedly occur there, but the variety is decidedlylimited. Green clumps of mesquite and creosote bush are attractive features ofthese dunes. The DiCQria here grows very large and forms handsome colonies Infavorable hollows. There is no floral display, however. Only a few annuals appear,even in good years.Since the fauna is dependent on plant l ife, it too is sparse in numbersand less varied here than at the Eureka Dunes. It must be kept In mInd, however,that both dune systems are important units of the ecological systems tn thetrrpc;oective valleys.II --Mary DeDecker, Independence, Ca.