202 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Vo.ume 22 
cent petioles bearing short-stalked glands; racemes as long as the leaves or shorter, 3-10- 
flowered; peduncles puberulent and with short-stalked glands; bracts obovate, pubescent 
and glandular-ciliate, 3-5 mm. long; pedicels filiform, 6-10 mm. long; ovary with a few 
stalked glands; hypanthium 34 mm. long, pubescent, deep-red, slightly exceeded by the 
deep-red pubescent sepals; stamens half the length of the sepals, about as long as the red 
petals, the oblong anthers tipped by a depressed gland ; berry black, glabrous. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Mount Mohinora, Chihuahua. 
DISTRIBUTION : Chihuahua and Durango. 
20. Ribes neglectum Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 8: 298. 1905. 
An unarmed shrub, 1.5 m. high or less, the young branches finely pubescent and with 
some glandular hairs. Leaves rather broader than long, 2-4 cm. wide, stibcordate or nearly 
truncate at the base, rather firm in texture, 3-5-lobed, dark-green and with scattered stiff 
glandular hairs above, paler and with both simple and glandular pubescence on the veins 
beneath, the lobes short, rounded, crenate-dentate, the strongly glandular-pubescent peti~- 
oles shorter than the blades; racemes spreading, or in fruit pendulous, 6-12-flowered, about 
as long as the leaves, glandular-pubescent; pedicels 2-6 mm. long; bracts ovate, acute, 
rather longer than the pedicels; hypanthium greenish, pubescent, 2-3 mm. long, a little 
shorter than the ovate sepals; petals broad, crenate; ovary with scattered gland-tipped 
hairs, otherwise smooth; berry smooth, black, 8-10 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Alvarez, San Luis Potosi. 
DISTRIBUTION : Type locality and vicinity. 
21. Ribes Pringlei Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 298. 1905. 
Ribes campanulatum H. & B.; R. & S. Syst. Veg. 5: 500. 1819. Not. campanulatum Moench, 1794. 
An unarmed shrub, with glabrous shining branches, the young twigs somewhat puberu- 
lent. Leaves about as broad as long, thin, cordate at the base, 8 cm. wide or less, 3-lobed 
or rarely 5-lobed, dark-green and with scattered stiff glandular hairs above, pale-green and 
with similar hairs on the veins beneath, the ovate acutish or obtuse lobes rather finely and 
sharply serrate, the petioles glandular-pubescent, mostly shorter than the blades; racemes 
drooping, 8-12-flowered, longer than the leaves, sometimes 12 cm. long, glandular-pubes- 
cent; pedicels 6-8 mm. long; bracts obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, glandular-pubescent 
and ciliate, mostly longer than the pedicels, the lower sometimes 1.5cm. long; hypanthium 
tubular-campanulate, greenish-purple, sparingly glandular-pubescent, 6-8 mm. long, 3.5- 
4.5 mm. thick; sepals lanceolate, acute, 4-5 mm. long, sparingly glandular-pubescent ; 
petals about half as long as the sepals, about as broad as long; ovary glandular-pubescent. 
TYPE LOCALITY ; Sierra de Ajusco, Federal District, Mexico. - 
DISTRIBUTION : "Type locality and vicinity 
ILLUSTRATION : Mém. Soc. Genéve 353: % 60, 61. ' 
22. Ribes viscosissimum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 163. 1814. 
Coreosma viscosissima Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. Il. 4: 23. 1835. 
Ribes viscosissimum Purshit Jancz, Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 328. 1907. 
An unarmed shrub, 1 m. high or less, the young shoots and inflorescence puberulent 
and glandular-pubescent. Leaves reniform-orbicular in outline, mostly 5-lobed, pubescent 
and glandular-pubescent on both sides, 5-8 cm. broad, the lobes short, broad, rounded, 
irregularly crenate-dentate, the densely glandular-pubescent petioles mostly rather shorter 
than the blades and much dilated at the base ; racemes spreading or ascending, few-several- 
flowered, often as long as the leaves or longer; pedicels 1 cm, long or less, usually as long as 
or a little longer than the herbaceous oblanceolate entire or minutely erose bracts; hypan- 
thium cylindric-campanulate, 6-7 mm. long, greenish or pinkish; sepals greenish-white 
or pinkish, about as long as the hypanthium, oblong, obtuse or rarely acute, sparingly, if 
at all, glandular; ovary glandular-pubescent; berry black, without bloom, more or less 
glandular-bristly, about 1 cm. in diameter, almost dry. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rocky Mountains. 
DISTRIBUTION : Montana to British Columbia, Colorado, and California. 
pry cae Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. pi. 76; Loud, Arb. ft 738 ; Card, Bush Fruits f. 107 ; Jancz. 
loc. cit. 6. 
