198 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLrumE 22 
7. Ribes petiolare Doug]. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 514. 1830. 
Ribes hudsonianum petiolare Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 346. 1907. 
Unarmed ; foliage glabrous, or slightly pubescent when young. Leavesthin, resinous- 
dotted beneath, cordate, mostly 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute, sharply irregularly serrate, 
their petioles slender, often longer than the blades; racemes erect, 5-12 cm. long, rather 
densely-flowered or the lower flowers distant ; pedicels filiform, 3-6 mm. long, mostly much 
longer than the very small pointed bracts; hypanthium hemispheric-crateriform, and like 
the ovary resinous-dotted; sepals white, ovate, obtuse, puberulent, about 7 mm.long; berry 
subglobose, black without bloom, about 1 cm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Western base of the Rocky Mountains, lat. 48° to 52°. 
DISTRIBUTION: From the interior of British Columbia to Montana, and southward to Wyom- 
ing, Utah, and eastern Oregon. 
8. Ribes vulgare Lam. Encyc. 3: 47. 1789. 
Ribes vulgare hortense Lam. Encyc. 3: 48. 1789. 
Ribes acerifolium K. Koch, Dendr. 1: 649; hyponym. 1869. 
Ribes hortense Hedlund, Bot. Notiser 1901: 94. 1901. 
An unarmed shrub, 1.5 m. high or less, the stems nearly erect, the young twigs, peti- 
oles, and under leaf-surfaces more or less pubescent and with stalked glandular hairs. 
Leaves thin, suborbicular in outline, cordate or subcordate at the base, little if at all decur- 
rent on the petiole, dark-green and with some scattered hairs above, pale and pubescent at 
least on the veins beneath, 3-lobed or 5-lobed, 7 cm. wide or less, the lobes acutish, serrate- 
dentate, the slender petioles often as long as the blades or longer; racemes drooping, sev- 
eral-many-flowered, as long as the leaves or shorter, sparingly pubescent ; pedicels filiform, 
usually glandless, 3-5 mm. long, much longer than the ovate bracts ; hypanthium saucer- 
shaped, green or slightly purple; sepals green, obtuse, spreading, 2-3 mm. long; petals 
yellowish-green ; ovary glabrous ; filaments very short, the anther-sacs separated by a broad 
connective, usually widely divergent; berry globose, red, shining, 1 cm. in diameter or 
less. 
TYPE LOCALITY: France. 
DISTRIBUTION: Escaped from cultivation, Massachusetts to Ontario and Wisconsin, south to 
Virginia, also Oregon and British Columbia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Notiser 1901: 156, 7. 1, 2, Cycl. Am. Hort. f. 2778; C. K. Schneid. 
ean Laubh. 1: f. 259 a-h ; Mém. Soc. Geneve 35°: i. 78 20 ; Britt. & Brown, ‘UL. FL. Sf. 1875 (as 
rubrum). 
9. Ribes triste Pall. Nova Acta Acad. Petrop. 10: 378. 1797. 
Ribes albinervium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 110. 1803. 
Ribes rubrum A. Gray, Man. 143, 1848. Not &. rubrum L,. 1753. 
Ribes rubrum subglandulosum Maxim, Bull, Acad, St. Petersb. 19: 261. 1874. 
Ribes rubrum albinervium MacM. Metasp. Minn. Valley 279. 1892. 
Ribes ciliosum Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 208. 1898, 
Ribes migratorium Suksd. Deuts. Bot. Monats. 18: 86. 1900. 
Ribes triste albinervium Fernald, Rhodora 9: 4. 1908. 
Unarmed, the stems creeping or ascending, 1 m. high or less, the young shoots and 
herbage sparingly pubescent and with few glandular hairs, or the under leaf-surface some- 
times manifestly pubescent. Leaves thin, reniform-orbicular in outline, 6-10 cm. wide, 
usually 3-lobed, sometimes 5-lobed, dark-green and commonly quite glabrous above, pale, 
with conspicuous veins, and glabrate or pubescent beneath, the lobes acute or obtuse, coarsely 
dentate-serrate, the base cordate with a wide sinus, or rarely subtruncate, usually conspicu- 
ously decurrent on the petiole, the petioles mostly somewhat shorter than the blades, more 
or less pubescent, mostly glandular-ciliate toward the base ; racemes drooping, somewhat 
glandular, several-flowered, commonly shorter than the leaves; pedicels 3-8 mm. long, 
much longer than the ovate bracts, usually bearing a few glands ; flowers purple or purplish- 
tinged ; hypanthium saucer-shaped ; sepals obtuse, spreading ; petals red or reddish ; anther- 
sacs contiguous, parallel or nearly so; ovary glabrous; berry smooth, red, 6-8 mm. in di- 
ameter, 
TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia 
DISTRIBUTION: Newfoundland to Alaska, and south to New Jersey, Michigan, South Dakota, 
and Oregon; also in northern Asia, 
ILLUSTRATION : Mém. Soc. Genéve 35°: S. 24. 
