208 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumME 22 
TYPE LOCALITY : Not given. 
DISTRIBUTION : Mountains of California, southern Oregon, and western Nevada. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Eastw. loc. cit. pl. 23, f. 4-5; pl. 24, f. 6-7; C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 
1: f. 265 a,; Janez. loc. cit. f. 53, 54. 
40. Ribes sanguineum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 164. 1814. 
Caloboirya sanguinea Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 4: 21. 1835. 
Coreosma sanguinea Spach, Hist. Vég. 6: 155. 1838. 
Ribes Scuphami Rastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. TII. Bot. 2: 242. 1902. 
An unarmed shrub, 14 m. high, the young shoots puberulent and often with some 
stalked glands. Leaves reniform-orbicular in outline, rather firm in texture, 3-5-lobed, 
cordate with a widely open sinus at the base or subtruncate, dark-green and puberulent 
above, whitish-tomentose beneath, the lobes obtuse, irregularly dentate or denticulate, the 
terminal one usually about as long as broad, the petioles mostly shorter than the blades, 
puberulent and commonly glandular ; racemes erect or ascending in the wild plant, as long 
as the leaves or longer, mostly 10-15-flowered, pubescent and glandular; pedicels 5-10 mm. 
long; bracts oblanceolate, glandular, longer than the pedicels; ovary with stalked glands 
and usually some curled whitish simple hairs among them; hypanthium red, cylindric- 
campanulate, 3-5 mm. long, pubescent, sepals oblong, somewhat longer than the hypan- 
thium, red, pubescent; petals white or reddish, spatulate, about half as long as the 
sepals; stamens equaling the petals; style glabrous; berry blue-black with a bloom, some- 
what glandular. 
TYPE LOCALITY: On the Columbia River. 
DISTRIBUTION : British Columbia to northern California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: p/. 13 ; Bot. Cab. pl. 1487, Bot. Reg. pl. 1349 ; 
Bot. Mag. /. 3335; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. II. £/. 109; Maund, Bot. Gard. p/. 377; Paxton’s Mag. 
Bot. 1: £2. opp. 3; Loud. Arb. f. 739; Spach, Hist. Vég.6: pl. 47, f. 1; Eastw. loc. cit. pl. 23, 
tf. 2; Mém. Soc. Genéve 358: f. 57, 
41. Ribes glutinosum Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 
‘II. 1: 476. 1835. 
Ribes sanguineum glutinosum Loud, Arb. 988. 1836. 
Ribes albidum Paxton, Paxton’s Mag. Bot. 10: pl. 55. 1843. 
Ribes glutinosum melanocarpum Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 124. 1894. 
Ribes Santae-Luciae Janez. Bull. Acad. Cracovie 1906: 9. 1906. 
Ribes deductum Greene ; Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 320; hyponym. 1907. 
Unarmed, similar to R. sanguineum, but the leaves commonly without tomentum on 
either side} often somewhat tomentose beneath ; young shoots, petioles and racemes more or 
less pubescent and glandular. Leavesreniform-orbicular in outline, cordate or subtruncate 
at the base, 3-5-lobed, 8 cm. wide or less, more or less puberulent and glandular on both 
sides, or the upper surface glabrous when mature, the lobes obtuse, irregularly crenate- 
dentate, the terminal one often broader than long ; racemes spreading or nodding, usually 
15-40-flowered ; pedicels 1 cm. long or less, often longer than the bracts; ovary usually 
glabrous, except for the stalked glands; hypanthium red, rarely white, pubescent and some- 
times bearing stalked glands, nearly cylindric, 3-5 mm. long, somewhat shorter than the 
red sepals; style glabrous; berry oblong, 1 cm. long or less, blue with a bloom, or black. 
TYPE LOCALITY : California (by inference). 
DISTRIBUTION: Coast of middle California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Maund, Bot. Gard. pi. 597; Paxton, loc. ctt.; Loud. Arb. £740; C. K. 
Schneid. Handb. Laubh.1: f. 2650; Janez. loc, cit. f. 55, 56, 58. f . 
42. Ribes malvaceum Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 30: no. 13. 1815. 
Ribes tubulosum Eschsch, Mém. Acad. St. Petersb. 10: 283. 1826. 
Ribes tubiflorum Meyer, Mém. Acad. Mosc. 7: 140. 1829, 
Ribes malvaceum Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. London II. 1: 476. 1835. 
Ribes sanguineum malvaceum Loud. Arb. 988. 1836. 
Ribes malvaceum viridifolium Abrams, Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 67. 1902. 
Ribes viridifolium Heller, Muhlenbergia1: 77. 1904. 
Ribes purpurascens Heller, Muhblenbergia 4: 29. 1908. 
Young branches, petioles, under leaf-surfaces, and inflorescence tomentose and glandu- 
lar-pubescent. Leaves suborbicular to ovate-orbicular in outline, thin to rather firm in 
