Part 3, 1908] GROSSULARIACEAE 205 
Glabrous throughout or foliage and inflorescence pubescent. Leaves reniform-orbicular 
to obovate in outline, firm in texture, variously lobed and dentate, cuneate, rounded, or 
subcordate at the base, 5cm. wide or less, the petioles about as long as the blades ; racemes 
5-15-flowered, 3-7 cm. long; bracts oblong to obovate, 5-12 mm. long, mostly longer than 
the pedicels; hypanthium 6-10 mm. long; sepals 5-8 mm. long; petals oblong, erose, 
about 2 mm. long; berry globose, red, black, or yellow, 6-8 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Banks of the Columbia River. 
DISTRIBUTION: Washington and Oregon to Assiniboia, Montana, and the Black Hills of South 
Dakota, south to Nevada, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Agardh, loc. cit. ; Spach, loc. cit. pl. 1, f. B, C. ; Spach, Hist. Vég. pl. 47, f. 
2; Bot. Reg. pl. 1274; Mém. Accad. Torino 33: pl. 1, f. A a Mém. Soc. Genave 3?: pl. 2, f. 24 
(as R. ebracteatum) ; Loud. Arb. f. 744; Card, Bush Fruits /. 109. 
31. Ribes gracillimum Coville & Britton, sp. nov. 
Glabrous or very nearly so throughout, sometimes with a few hairs on the petiole-bases, 
much branched, the young twigs gray, the older branches brown. Leaves ovate to sub- 
orbicular in outline, at flowering time not over 2 cm. wide, rather thin in texture, 3-lobed 
and sparingly dentate, mostly cuneate, but some of them subtruncate at the base, the 
slender petioles as long as the blades or shorter, often bearing very small sessile glands; 
racemes 5-15-flowered, 5 cm. long or less, short-peduncled; bracts ovate to elliptic, 5-9 
mim. long, mostly equaling or longer than the pedicels; hypanthium 6-8 mm. long; sepals 
oval, 3-4 mm. long; petals obovate, erose, about two thirds as long as the sepals. 
Type collected at Stanford University, California, April, 1901, 4. D. B. Elmer 3025. 
DISTRIBUTION : Central and southern California. 
32. Ribes odoratum Wendl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beitr. 2: 15. 1825. 
Ribes longifiorum Nutt.; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 2: sub fi. 125, as synonym. 1816. 
Ribes aureum villosum Berland. Mém. Soc. Genéve 3?: 60, 1826. 
Ribes flavum Colla, Mém. Accad. Torino 33: 114. 1828. Not &. favum Berland. 1826. 
Ribes aureum praecox Lindl, Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 240. 1828, 
Ribes palmatum Thory, Monog. Gen. Gros. 28. 1829. 
Ribes fragrans Todd. Bot. Cab. pl. 1533. 1829. Not R. fragrans Pall. 1797. 
Chrysobotrya revoluta Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 4: 19. 1835. 
Ribes Oregoni Herinceq, Hortic. Fr. 1872: 227. 1.8. 1872. 
Ribes aureum melanococcum Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 334. 1907. 
A shrub 2 m. high or less, the bark of old branches gray, the young shoots pubescent. 
Leaves firm in texture, ovate to reniform-orbicular in outline, cuneate to truncate at the 
base, 2-5 cm. broad, deeply 3-5-lobed and coarsely dentate or crenate-dentate, glabrate on 
both sides, mostly longer than the pubescent petioles ; racemes mostly 4-8-flowered, as long 
as the leaves or longer, the rachis pubescent; bracts ovate to oval, foliaceous, longer than 
the pubescent or rarely glabrous pedicels, the lower sometimes 1.5 cm. long; hypanthium 
12-15 mm. long; sepals oblong, 5-6 mm. long; petals 2-3 mm. long, lobed or erose; berry 
black, globose to oval, about 8 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: North America, near the Missouri River. 
DISTRIBUTION: In the Great Plains from South Dakota to Texas; frequently escaped from 
cultivation elsewhere. 
JLLUSTRATIONS : Bot. Reg. #/. 125; Mém. Soc. Genéve 3?: pl. 2, f. 23; Loud. Arb. %. 742 ; 
Card, Bush Fruits f 108; C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 1: S. 265 a Britt, & Brown, Ill. FL 
S. 1877 (all as R. aureum): Bot. Cab. pl. 1537 ; Spach, loc. cit. pl. 1, f. A ; Colla, loc. cit. pl. 1, f. B. 
33. Ribes fontinale Britton, sp. nov. 
Young twigs puberulent. Leaves rather firm in texture, small, 3 cm. wide or less, 
mostly 3-lobed, ciliolate, cuneate to subtruncate at the base, the lobes entire or few-toothed, 
the petioles densely puberulent; racemes 4~7-flowered, 3-4 cm. long, the rachis densely 
puberulent; bracts oblong to oval, acute, puberulent, foliaceous, 5-8 mm. long, as long as 
or exceeding the glabrous pedicels; hypanthium very slender, about 9 mm. long; sepals 
oblong, obtuse, 4 mm. long; petals obovate, obtuse, erose, about 2mm. long; immature 
berry globose, 6 mm. in diameter. 
Type collected at Semeleque Springs (now Samalayuca), 30 miles south of El Paso (in Chi- 
huahua), /. WZ. Bigelow, Mexican Boundary Survey 700. 
