VOL..1.] The Wolverine. 297 
Specimens marked ‘‘No. 101, Downingia bicornuta Gray, road 
to Sierra Valley, Nevada County, July, 1884,’’ agree well enough 
with the description of the form to which the name D. montana has 
been given. The throat is plane, as it is in specimens from the 
shore of Lake Tahoe, collected by the writer in September, 1834, | 
but in others collected by Dr. Kellogg —“ Summit Camp, Sierra 
Nevada, July 14, 1870’’ — the flowers of which are otherwise much 
the same, the lower lip is furnished with two prominent yellow pro- 
cesses. 
Parrishella appears by habit and capsular structure more nearly 
related to the Andean genus Lysipoma than to the Cyphie, with 
which it is usually classified. The operculate capsule soon becomes 
1-celled above the middle. 
Nemacladus has suffered inflation in the same manner as Down- 
ingia. To the earlier species, VV. ramostssimus and WN. longiflorus, 
the writer added the very robust 4. rigédus from near Steamboat 
Springs, Nevada, and Prof. Greene more than doubled the species 
by his WV. capillaris, montanus, pinnatifidus, rubescens and fenuissi- 
mus, all from a similar climatic region. Dr. Gray in Supp. to Vol- 
ii, pt. 1, of his Synoptical Flora, reduced all these forms to 4. 7a- 
mosissimus, with the exception of NV. rigidus, which also will prob- 
ably prove to be only an outlying form. 
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“THE WOLVERENE (Guo luscus) IN CALIFORNIA.” 
BY WALTER E. BRYANT. 
In the December number of Zoe, Mr. L. Belding recorded the — 
occurrence of the wolverene in California having several times seen 
animals and tracks in the high Sierra, and also upon the authority 
of a'trapper in Alpine County who caught one and had it stuffed. 
Mr. Belding has presented me with a good photographic likeness 
of the mounted specimen, taken from the photograph in the pos- 
- session of Mrs. J. B. Scott. 
Mr. H. W. Dickinson, who has lived in California since pioneer 
days, tells me that in 1855 he found a dead wolverene in a small 
creek near San Rafael, and in 1857 he saw one brought into the 
town of Healdsburg, it having been shot on Mill Creek. 
This meagre data and the photograph is sufficient to establish the 
place of the wolverene in the fauna of the State. 3 
