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3. Ribes viburnifolium A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 202. 1882. 
Evergreen, unarmed; branches straggling; young twigs resinous-glandular. Leaves 
thick, dark-green above, pale-green and resinous-dotted beneath, ovate to obovate-oval, 
2-7 cm. long, obtuse at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, sparingly repand-dentate 
or nearly entire-margined, glabrous or somewhat pubescent when young; petioles rather 
stout, shorter than the blades, mostly not more than 1 cm. long, pubescent or glabrous ; 
racemes 1 to 3 from the same bud, few-several-flowered, as long as the leaves or shorter, 
resinous-glandular; pedicels filiform, 5-10 mm. long; bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, 
mostly shorter than the pedicels, caducous; hypanthium turbinate; sepals oval, rose-col- 
ored, spreading ; petals greenish, very small; berry subglobose, about 6 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Northern part of Lower California, near All. Saints Bay. 
DISTRIBUTION: Lower and southern California and adjacent islands. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Card, Bush Fruits /, 99; Bot. Mag. p/. 8094; Mém. Soc. Genéve 353: f. 72. 
4. Ribes nigrum L. Sp. Pl. 201. 1753. 
Stems unarmed, 1 m. high or less; young shoots puberulent. Leaves 3—-5-lobed, thin, 
sparingly pubescent and resinous-dotted, mostly somewhat broader than long, cordate or 
nearly truncate at the base, the lobes broadly ovate, sharply and irregularly serrate, the 
pubescent petioles as long as the blades or longer; racemes pendulous, pubescent, few- 
several-flowered, mostly shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 4-10 mm. long, longer than the 
ovate-oblong acute bracts; ovary resinous-dotted ; hypanthium campanulate-urceolate ; 
sepals oblong, obtuse, green, ascending at anthesis and recurved at about the middle, much 
longer than the oblong reddish petals ; berries black, subglobose, 8-10 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. 
DISTRIBUTION: Locally escaped from cultivation in the Middle States. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Engl. Bot. £7. 1291; Fl. Dan. £1. 556, Loud. Arb. f. 734; Fl. Deuts. ed, 
5, pl, 2288 ; Card, Bush Fruits /, 200. 
5. Ribes bracteosum Dougl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 233. 1832. 
Ribes bracteosum viridifiorum Janez. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 339. 1907. . 
Stems ascending, unarmed, 3 m. long or less, the young shoots, leaves and racemes 
sparingly and loosely pubescent. Leaves thin, deeply 5-7-lobed, resinous-dotted beneath, 
5-20 cm. wide, cordate at base, the lobes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply irregu- 
larly serrate, their slender petioles often as long as the blades or longer; racemes narrow, 
slender, erect, loosely-flowered, often 2 dm. long, commonly longer than the leaves; ped- 
icels filiform, pubescent, erect-spreading, 1 cm. long or less; bracts spatulate, half as long 
as the pedicels, or the lower longer, foliaceous, and often lobed; hypanthium urceolate-cra- 
teriform, resinous-punctate; sepals green, spreading, veiny, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3-4 mm. 
long ; petals minute, obtuse; berry resinous-punctate, globose to globose-oblong, about 1 
cm. in diameter, black with a whitish bloom when mature. 
TYPE LOCALITY: At the confluence of the Columbia River with the ocean. 
DISTRIBUTION: Along the coast, eastern Alaska to northern California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. pl. 7419; Mém. Soc. Genéve 353: f/f. 69 
6. Ribes hudsonianum Richards. Bot. App. Frankl. Journey 
ed. 2. 6. 1824. 
Ribes hudsonianum canadense Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35 : 346. 1907. 
Branches erect, unarmed. Petioles slender, 3-10 cm. long; leaves broader than long, 
3-10 cm. wide, more or less pubescent and resinous-dotted beneath, cordate or subcordate, 
3-5-lobed, the lobes ovate, obtuse or acutish, coarsely dentate; racemes loosely-flowered, 
3-6 cm. long, pedicels 4 mm. long or less; flowers white, 4-6 mm. broad; ovary waxy- 
dotted, smooth; hypanthium crateriform; sepals oval, obtuse, spreading; stamens short, 
not exserted ; bracts setaceous, usually equaling or nearly equaling the pedicels; fruit globu- 
lar, black, glabrous, 5-10 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Wooded country in latitude 57°, subarctic America. 
DISTRIBUTION : Hudson Bay to central Alaska, and southward in the interior of British Amer- 
ica to eastern British Columbia and Ontario, entering the United States in northeastern Minnesota. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1873; Mém. Soc. Genéve 353: f. 76, 
