200 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLrumE 22 
glabrous above, sometimes sparingly pubescent on the veins beneath and with minute 
sessile glands, the lobes ovate or triangular-ovate, obtuse or acutish, irregularly crenate- 
dentate, the rather stout petioles as long as the blades or shorter, puberulent, the dilated 
base sparingly glandular-bristly ; racemes erect, minutely pubescent and glandular, 6-12- 
flowered ; pedicels 4-15 mm. long, recurved-spreading, much longer than the linear-lance- 
olate bracts, or the lowest bract sometimes foliaceous; hypanthium very short; sepals 
greenish or purplish, 3-4 mm. long, spreading, glandular-hairy without; petals purplish, 
fan-shaped, usually broader than long, 1.5-2 mm. broad; ovary glandular-pubescent ; berry 
black without bloom, sparingly glandular-pubescent, about 10 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Marshall Pass, Colorado (3150 meters). 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Colorado and northern New Mexico, at 3000-3600 meters elevation. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mém. Soc. Genéve 353: f. 48. 
14. Ribes laxiflorum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 731. 1814. 
Ribes americanum Pall. Fl. Ross. 12: 34. 1788. Not &. americanum Mill. 1768. 
Ribes affine Dougl. ; Bong. Mém. Acad. St. Petersb, VI. 2: 138. 1832. Not &. affine H.B. K, 1823. 
Ribes prostratum lax iflorum Loud. Arb. 981. 1836. 
Ribes laxiflorum inerme Kuttz, Bot. Jahrb. 19: 379. 1894. 
Stems decumbent, unarmed, the young shoots puberulent. Leaves nearly orbicular in 
outline, 5-10 cm. wide, thin, cordate, deeply 5-lobed, glabrous above, somewhat pubes- 
cent beneath, at least when young, and the margin sparingly ciliate, the lobes ovate, acute 
or acutish, sharply or rather bluntly serrate, the rather slender petioles about as long as the 
blades, puberulent or pubescent, the dilated basal part glandular-pubescent ; racemes erect- 
spreading, 6-12-flowered, pubescent and glandular, as long as the leaves or shorter; pedi- 
cels 6-12 mm. long, much longer than the lanceolate bracts; sepals 3-4 mm. long, not 
glandular-pubescent, obtuse; hypanthium very short; ovary pubescent and glandular-hairy, 
or the glandular hairs rarely obsolete; petals fan-shaped, little, if any, broader than long ; 
berry black or dark-purple, glandular-pubescent, glaucous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Northwest coast of North America. 
DISTRIBUTION : Northern California to Alaska near the coast, in British Columbia extending 
eastward to the Selkirk and Rocky mountains; also in eastern Asia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 1: f. 268 6; Mém. Soc. Genéve 353 :-f. 45. 
15. Ribes cereum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 512. 1830. 
Cerophylium Douglasiit Spach, Hist. Vég. 6: 153. 1838, 
Ribes balsamiferum Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 94, 1861. 
Ribes cereum farinosum Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 338. 1907. 
A much-branched shrub, 1 m. high or less, unarmed, the young shoots finely pubescent. 
Leaves reniform-orbicular, 14 cm. wide, cordate, subcordate, or truncate at the base, pu- 
berulent and somewhat glandular, or the upper surface nearly or quite glabrous, 3-5-lobed, 
the lobes obtuse, crenate or crenulate, the puberulent petioles as long as the blades or 
shorter ; racemes short, compact, puberulent, few-flowered, pendulous, little, if at all, longer 
than the leaves; bracts cuneate-obovate, obtuse or truncate, lobed or dentate, pubescent and 
glandular, 4-7 mm. long, much longer than the nearly obsolete pedicels ; ovary glandular 
or smooth; hypanthium tubular, pubescent, 6-8 mm. long, 3 or 4 times as long as thick, 
white, greenish, or cream-colored; sepals ovate, about 2 mm. long; anthers with a cup- - 
shaped apical gland; petals nearly orbicular, minute; styles usually hairy above; berry 
bright-red, 6-7 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: On decayed granite or schist along the Columbia River, from the Great Falls 
[the Dalles] to the source of that stream. 
DISTRIBUTION: California to Washington and the interior of British Columbia, western 
Montana, Idaho, Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northwestern Arizona. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Bot. ae Bl. 1263 ; Bot. Mag. pl, 3008 ; Loud. Arb. f. 737; Kellogg, loc. ctt. 
SJ. 25; Janez. loc. cit. f. 68 
16. Ribes reniforme Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 7: 25. 1834. 
Ribes cereum pedicellare A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 207. 1876. 
A robust shrub, commonly 1.5-2.5 m. high, the one-year-old twigs glabrous and usually 
red-brown. Leaf-blades reniform-orbicular, commonly 2.5-4 or even 5 cm. wide, cordate, 
