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shore where deep ruts were cut in the road at this, the dry season of 
the year. When returning from La Jolla and other points along the 
sea beach, I have frequently carried home the tide-pool species alive 
in the same manner, and, invariably, the Oligocottus analis, one of 
the small Cottidee, was more tenacious of life than any of the other 
species. At this time, however, Oligocottus expired with the rest, 
leaving the blind fish to claim the honor of being the most hardy of 
the smaller species of the region. This species is scaleless and 
exceedingly slippery. I took one of these examples from the pail, 
when, like an eel, it slipped through my fingers into a barrel of rain- 
water standing near, swimming around in the barrel several times. 
I then removed it to a clean shallow dish into which I had poured 
about half a cupful of sea sand together with the small amount of 
dirty sea water which had covered the medley of animate beings 
before mentioned. TZyphlogodius, still active, tried to bury itself in 
the sand, but the dish was too shallow, and several efforts proved 
unavailing. When touched on the tail it turned quickly around. It 
was still quite active five hours after it was removed from among the 
dead fishes. How much longer it may have been able to survive I 
do not know, as I then killed it with alcohol. 
NOTES ON THE NATURALIZED PLANTS OF SOUTHERN 
CALIFORNIA, IV. 
BY S. B. PARISH. 
Grasses.— When Lamarchia aurea was collected in 1875 by 
Parry and Lemmon it had not been previously observed on this 
continent. They discovered it growing in the sandy bed of Mill 
Creek Cajion,* where that stream breaks from the San Bernardino - 
Mountains, a place in which, as Dr. Parry wrote, ‘‘one would hard- 
ly expect an introduced grass.” It is, however, a favorite camping 
place for fishing parties, who may easily have brought the seeds _ 
from Los Angeles, where there is reason to believe that this species ~ 
was at that time already established. It continued, however, to be 
a scarce plant for many years, so that the finding of an occasional 
“The station ‘‘Colorado Desert,” given in the Botany of California, ii, 299, is 
an error. : 
