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angulate in outline, the segments oblong or linear-oblong, mostly 
narrower; peduncles slender, 2-flowered, the inflorescence loose; 
sepals lanceolate, awn-pointed ; ovary-lobes pubescent; persistent 
filaments longer than the carpels; beak about 1’ long, long-point- 
ed, its tip 2-3’ long ; seeds reticulated. 
Nova Scotia (?) Maine to Western Ontario and southern New. 
York. 
A new Ribes from Idaho. 
’ RIBES- LEUCODERME. 
A shrub, four to six feet high, freely’ branching above, the 
branches inclined to droop; main stem rather stout, covered with 
thin light gray epidermis, which peels off in shreds ; branches, es- 
pecially the younger ones, pubescent with very short and thick 
white tomentum, the growing ends furnished with long-stalked 
yellow glands; infrastipular spines solitary, or sometimes in pairs 
on young branches, nearly an inch long when mature, slender and 
very sharp, from a stout base, slightly curved downward, yellow- 
brown; leaves broadly ovate, or almost orbicular in outline, the 
largest two inches in diameter, deeply three-lobed, the lateral 
lobes sometimes cut, so as to give the leaf the appearance of being 
five-lobed, the lobes all coarsely crenate-serrate, pubescent on both 
sides with short white hairs, and usually resinous-dotted, ciliate ; 
petioles slender, pubescent, usually as long as the blade ; flowering 
rachis an inch in length, or less, furnished with stalked glands, 
two-flowered ; flowers’ approximate, on short, glabrous pedicels ; 
bracts very small, shorter than the pedicels, almost orbicular, 
fringed with stalked glands; calyx tubular, nearly a half-inch in 
length, glabrous on the outside, hairy within inthe throat, greenish 
white, or sometimes tinged with purple, the lobes narrowly ob- 
long ; petals narrow, obovate, little more than half the length of 
the calyx-lobes, white; anthers on glabrous filaments; style 
Pubescent ; fruit spherical, four lines in diameter, unarmed, pur- 
Plish when fully ripe. 
Collected at Lake Waha, in the Craig mountains, Nez Perces 
county, Idaho, by Mrs. Heller and the writer, June 2,1896. Type, 
number 3175, in flower. It was also collected in fruit at Forest, 
Nez Perces county, by Mr. H. E. Brown, in August, no. 17. It 
1s common on the Craig mountains, growing on the edge of the. 
forest, and in moist copses, at elevations of 2,000 to 3,500 feet. 
It is the plant called Rises oxyacanthoides, by Holzinger, in Contr, 2 
