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6. Ribes americanum Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 4. 1768. 
Ribes floridum L’ Her. Stirp. Nov. 4. 1785, 
TypPE Loca.ity: Pennsylvania, 
RanGE: British America to Virginia, Nebraska, Colorado, and northern New 
Mexico, 
New Mexico: Trout Spring, Gallinas Canyon (Cockerell). Damp woods. 
7. Ribes wolfii Rothr. Amer. Nat. 8: 358. 1874. 
Ribes mogollonicum Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 121. 1881. 
Tyre Locauity: ‘‘Twin Lakes and Mosquito Pass, Colorado Territory.”’ 
2aNGE: Colorado and Utah to New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Wheeler Peak; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Jemez Moun- 
tains; Sandia Mountains; Magdalena Mountains; Mogollon Mountains; White Moun- 
tains. Damp woods, in the Transition and Hudsonian zones. 
This is the more common black currant of the higher parts of the mountains. Itisa 
shrub, sometimes 3 meters high, with rather large, 5-lobed leaves, the lobes broadly 
ovate, the sinuses not deeply cut, and the margin crenate-serrate, the teeth small; 
the fruit which is edible but insipid is about 1 cm. in diameter, generally with a 
bloom. 
The type of Ribes mogollonicum was collected in the Mogollon Mountains by E. L. 
Greene, in 1881. 
2. GROSSULARIA Mill. GoosEBERRY. 
Spreading shrubs with numerous stems armed at the nodes with simple or 3-forked 
spines; leaves broadly ovate to rotund, rather deeply 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes coarsely 
crenate; racemes few-flowered; pedicels not jointed beneath the ovary; ovary and 
fruit spiny, hairy, or smooth; hypanthium evident; fruit not separating from the 
pedicel. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Ovary densely bristly, the bristles developing into sharp stout 
spines in fruit. . 2.2.0... 2022-20 e eee eee eee eee eee 1. G. pinetorum. 
Ovary smooth, not spiny in fruit. 
Styles glabrous; leaves small, 20 mm. in diameter or less, on 
petioles as long or shorter, crowded; young stems densely 
spiny, the spines usually stout, often 1 cm. long, diver- 
gent and curved; flowers copiously ciliate and somewhat 
glandular outside. ........-....---.----+++5--++++------ 2. G. leptantha. 
Styles hairy near the base; leaves larger, mostly more than 20 
mm. in diameter, on rather slender petioles longer than 
the blades, not so numerous as in the preceding; young 
stems mostly smooth, the spines short, often deflexed, 6 
mm. long or less; flowers almost glabrous outside. ..... 3, G, inermis. 
1. Grossularia pinetorum (Greene) Coville & Britton, N. Amer. Fl. 22: 217. 1908. 
Ribes pinetorum Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 157, 1881. 
Type Locauity: “In woods of Pinus ponderosa, in the higher elevations of the 
Pinos Altos and Mogollon Mountains,’’ New Mexico. Type collected by Greene. 
Rance: New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Zuni Mountains; San Mateo Peak; Magdalena Mountains; Mogollon 
Mountains; Black Range; White and Sacramento mountains. Woods in the moun- 
tains, Transition Zone. 
A large shrub, often 2 meters high or more, common in the pine-covered areas of the 
mountains of the southern half of the State. It may be recognized by the large and 
