WoL. 1.] Typhlogobius Californiensis. 181 
has a dry, sun -burned look, excepting during the rainy season; so 
that the view of the lower irrigated ground, with its orange and 
guava trees, its bananas and cocoa palms, and the large sugar-cane 
fields is heightened in effect by contrast with the dry, dormant, rain- 
awaiting upland vegetation. Some native plants scattered in the 
smaller drier hedges are so handsome that they seem like flowers 
escaped from cultivation; one especially (Dysodia speciosa) always 
looks out of place when its tall, weak stems, supported by some in- 
significant leafless bush, are gay with many of its variegated flowers. 
flibiscus ribiflorus is another that commands notice. Its stem is 
sometimes eight feet high, and near the ends of the branches are 
_ bright yellow flowers, two or.three inches in diameter. At the 
lower (western) end of the fields is the fine sandy ocean beach, with 
its semi-tropical plants, many of which, as Jomea Pes-capre, I. 
acetosefolia, Scevola, Maytenus, etc., reach also to Florida omthe At- 
lantic Coast, and back of them, only twenty miles eastward, rises the 
high steep mountain of the Sierra de la Laguna, with a widely dif- 
ferent flora, abounding in leguminous trees— 7ecoma stans, with its 
large yellow blossoms, arborescent Nolinas and Polygalas, and many 
plants belonging to a more northern flora, as blackberries, straw- 
berries, the black currant (Rides sanguineum), pines, oaks, the 
Toyon ( Heteromeles arbutifolia), and the madrofia. 
NOTE ON TYPHLOGOBIUS CALIFORNIENSIS. 
BY ROSA SMITH EIGENMANN. 
The following notes, taken at San Diego July 3d, 1882, but not 
hitherto published, may supplement the statements made by C. H. , 
Eigenmann (Zoe, May, 1890) concerning the tenacity of life of the 
Point Lomo blind fish. 
Three specimens were secured and were: placed alive in a two- 
quart tin pail along with seaweeds, polyzoa, hydroids, living mol- 
lusks, a sea-cucumber, and a number of small fishes and crabs. The 
_ living forms in the pail were so crowded and so short of water that 
all the fishes except the three pink blind fish had died before I 
reached home, the drive of twelve miles being over a hilly road 
__ for some distance, thence across the sandy river-bed over which the 
_ San Diego river formerly flowed into the bay, and along the bay 
