214 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 22 
Leaves thin, 2-5 cm. wide, orbicular to ovate-orbicular, 3-5-lobed, incised-dentate, not 
rugose, glabrous or sparingly pubescent above when young, finely loosely pubescent or 
nearly glabrous but with mainly sessile or very short-stalked glands beneath; petioles 
about as long as the blade, whitish-pubescent and with stalked glands; peduncles 1-3- 
flowered, pubescent and with stalked glands, as long as the petioles or longer; bracts 
orbicular to ovate, sometimes lobed, shorter than the pedicels; ovary pubescent and with 
both glandular and non-glandular bristles; hypanthium purple, pubescent and glandular, 
subcampanulate, about 4 mm. long, nearly half as long as the sepals; sepals greenish- 
purple, lanceolate, glandular-hairy and sparingly villous below, conspicuously villous at the 
apex; petals white, obovate, acute, clawed, about 5 mm. long, about as long as the flat 
filaments ; anthers sagittate, mucronate, 3 mm. long; styles surpassing the sepals; berry 
purple, densely prickly. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Gorda, Santa Lucia Mountains, California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Santa Lucia Mountains. 
ILLUSTRATION : Eastw. loc. cit. pl. 24, f. 10. 
6. Grossularia leptosma Coville, sp. nov. 
A shrub 1-1.6 m. high, the young twigs sparingly bristly, sometimes densely so, often 
without bristles ; nodal spines subulate-acicular, 2 cm. long or less. Leaves suborbicular in 
outline, cordate or truncate at the base, thin, not rugose, 5 cm. wide or less, 3-5-lobed, 
crenate-dentate, scantily pubescent on both sides, or glabrous above, the lower surface with 
usually nearly sessile glands and sometimes some stalked ones on the principal veins ; peti- 
ole glandular-hairy and pubescent, about as long as the blade; flowers 1 to 3 together, the 
glandular and pubescent peduncle as long asthe petioles or shorter; bracts ovate, usually 
shorter than the pedicels ; ovary densely glandular-bristly ; hypanthium pubescent and with 
stalked glands, greenish-purple, 2.5-3.5 mm. long; sepals purple or greenish-purple, lance- 
olate, about three times as long as the hypanthium ; petals broad, white, erose-truncate, about 
three-fifths as long as the filaments; stamens equaling the sepals, the anthers lanceolate, 
mucronate, about 2 mm. long; berry oval or globose, densely glandular-bristly, about 1.5 
cm. in diameter. 
Type collected in Bear Valley, Marin County, California, March 31, 1894, 7. Burtt Davy 6%, 
and identified by Professor Edward L. Greene as Ribes subvestitum H. & A. That plant, however, 
is the same as Rk. Menziesit Pursh. 
DISTRIBUTION : Middle California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Jancz. loc. cit. f. 91, 92. 
7. Grossularia senilis Coville, sp. nov. 
A shrub with loosely or densely bristly twigs; nodal spines triple, acicular, 1-2 cm. 
long. Leaves ovate-orbicular in outline, 3-5-lobed, cordate at the base, incisely crenate- 
dentate, 4 cm. wide or less, thin, somewhat paler beneath than above, sparingly villous and 
glandular-hairy above, or nearly smooth, beneath softly villous-pubescent and with scattered 
stalked glands, the villous and somewhat glandular-pubescent pétioles as long as the blades 
or shorter; flowers solitary or 2 together on villous and glandular-hairy peduncles 1.5-3 
cm. long; bracts ovate, dentate, mostly shorter than the pedicels; ovary densely villous, 
with a few gland-tipped or glandless bristles; hypanthium purple, pubescent, cylindric- 
campanulate, 4-5 mm. long, nearly half as long as the purple, lanceolate, villous, and 
glandular-hairy sepals; petals white or whitish, involute, erose, about as long as the fila- 
ments, half the length of the sepals or more; anthers ovate-lanceolate, sagittate, mucronate, 
nearly 3 mm. long; berry unknown. 
Type collected near Saratoga, Santa Clara County, California, 4.4. Heller, and distributed as 
Ribes subvestitum WH. & A. 
DISTRIBUTION: Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, California. 
8. Grossularia californica (H. & A.) Coville & Britton. 
Rives californicum H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 346. 1838. 
Ribes occidentale H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 346. 1838. 
Ribes oligacanthum Kastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 246. 1902. 
Ribes occidentale californicum Jancz, Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 368. 1907. 
