352 Notes on Californian Plants. [ ZOE 
. outer lip, and an excessive amount of carbonate of lime in their com- 
position. The bungling manner in which the animal repairs these 
fractures does not add to the beauty or attractiveness of the shell, 
which even in its perfect state is not very inspiring, especially when 
we consider the beauty of many other cones. 
 -Terebra simplex Cpr. The animal that inhabits this shell is of a 
pure, pearly white color, without spot or blemish. When fully ex- 
tended, its foot is about ¥4 the length of the shell. The proboscis is 
slender, about as long as the foot of the animal, gracefully curved 
cover the back of the shell, and when the animal is in motion it forms 
an interesting and conspicuous part of the creature, and seems out 
of all proportions in its length to the rest of the animal’s body. 
“This animal has no tentacles, but the eyes are situated on mammillated 
‘tubercles that protrude from the body midway between the foot and 
proboscis. The eyes are small, dark and keen; the foot is truncated 
in frent and rounded behind. The operculum is carneous, unguic- 
ulated in form, and lies on the upper side of the posterior part of 
the foot. This shell is abundant at San Diego and southward. 
cane elites 
~ NOTES ON CALIFORNIAN PLANTS. IV. 
ee ': BY Ss. B. PARISH. 
VARIATIONS OF CALOCHORTUS VENUSTUS BENTH. 
This:species, not uncommon in the central region of the State,ex- 
tends as far south as Elizabeth Lake, in Los Angeles County. Here 
at its southern limit it is strictly typical; the stem stout and branch- 
ing and from 18 to 24 inches high; the flowers light lilac, the petals 
marked above with a reddish stain, below that a brown, yellow-edged | 
-occulation, and the basal portion brown-striate; the densely hirsute 
gland narrowly oblong, and surrounded by scattered hairs. The 
plants are not very abundant here, but among a considerable num- 
ber observed not one manifested any noticeable variation. 
Hardly fifty miles further north, at Fort Tejon, on the borders of 
Kern County,they are very plentiful, but here, on the contrary, they 
sshow a range of color variation which I have seen in no other plant 
that has not been subjected to the art of the hybridizer. Specimens. 
growing on the flats about Lake Castac were sufficient to unmistak- 
