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, season deliquesce over the surface of the leaf, and which give the herbage the sweet 

 odor of Chamtebatia. In addition to these glands some plants bear short hairs also 

 on their leaves. Of our collection, the first two numbers are quite glabrous, with 

 the exception of the glands, while the other three possess the second character men- 

 tioned above, and in addition have smaller leaves, gnarled branches, and more con- 

 gested growing parts. These plants' all grew in exposed places near timber-line, 

 while the others were in lower altitudes and in shaded situations. 



Ribes lacustre molle Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 206 (1870). Type locality, "in the Sierra 

 Nevada at 6,000 to 10,000 feet, from Mariposa Co. northward." 

 Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1423). 



Ribes leptanthum Gray, PL Fendl. 53 (1810). Type locality, "rocky banks of 

 the Rio del Norte, and ravines near Santa Fe," New Mexico. 



In the Sierra Nevada (Nos. 1411, 1002). No. 1414 agrees with the original descrip- 

 tion in its leaves, which are glabrous or merely ciliatc on the margins, and with 

 minutely tomentose petioles. No. 1062 has both surfaces of its leaves minutely 

 short-pubescent, the petioles as in the other. Ovaries and fruit in both are glab- 

 rous. 



Ribes leptanthum brachyanthum Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 205 (1876). Type locality, 

 "foot-hills near Carson City," Nevada. 



In the Panamint Mountains (No. 746), and in Gold Mountain, Nevada (No. 2003). 

 Our specimens are exactly like those described by Gray, with both surfaces of the 

 leaves and the ovaries minutely glandular-hairy, and the calyx tube shorter. This 

 plant is distinct from Ii. rchitiimm, described in Bulletin of the California Academy, 

 vol. i., p. 83, and appears to be confined to the mountains of the Great Basin. 



Ribes menziesii Pursh, Fl. ii. 732 (1814). Type locality, "on the north-west 

 coast, near Fort Trinidad," Humboldt County, California, 



Specimens of this gooseberry were collected near FTavilah (No, lnTT . and an 

 abundance, of them was seen again in the woods at Fort Tejon. In the tatter place 

 the plant was in full fruit early in duly, and, following the example of the inhab- 

 itants of the region, we made an excellent jam from the berries. 



Ribes oxyacanthoides saxosnm (Hook.) Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 231(1834), as B. saxosum. 

 Type locality, "on the undulating grounds of the interior among stones." The 

 type specimens were collected by Douglas. 



Near Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 1711). Petioles usually with a lew 

 long, spreading, large but rather fioxuous, bristle-like hairs on the margins near 

 the base, otherwise glabrous; leaves with a broad but well marked sinus at the 

 base, glabrous on both sides; otherwise apparently as the type form. 



llibes oxyacanthoides was described by Linnieus from Canadian specimens. The 

 plants from that region, as well as those from the Mississippi Valley and eastward 

 generally, have broadly ouneate or at most truncate bases, and are sparingly tomen- 

 tose on the veins about tho base of the blade beneath, and on the petioles, and are 

 usually devoid of potiolar bristles. The variety is well marked in its range, ex- 

 tending from the mountains of Colorado, Utah, and California northward into 

 British America. Hooker's R. naxonum is, with Little doubt, the plant that has been 

 described above. It has been impracticable to compare ours with the type specimens, 

 and there remains a bare possibility that our plant has never received a name. 



Ribes sanguineum variegatum Wats. Bot. King Surv. 100 (1871). Type locality, 

 "Washoe Mountains, near Carson City [Nevada], on stream banks." 



The plant now collected differs in several respects from the type form, 1 the original 

 specimens of which were collected on the Columbia. River by Lowie. Specimens 



•Bee original description, and Botany of California, vol. i., p. 207(1876). 



