220 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 22 
TYPE LOCALITY : Above Donner Lake, toward Castle Peak, California. 
DISTRIBUTION : High elevations in the Sierra Nevada, California. 
24, Grossularia quercetorum (Greene) Coville & Britton. 
Ribes quercetorum Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 83. 1885. 
kRibes Congdoni Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 101. 1904. 
Ribes leplanthum quercetorum Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 380. 1907. 
Ribes velutinum Congdoni Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 381. 1907. 
Esetose, or sparingly bristly, 1-1.5 m. high, the bark gray-brown ; nodal spines usually 
solitary, straight or slightly curved, 1 cm. long or less; young shoots pubescent. Leaves 
suborbicular in outline, 1-2 cm. wide, 3-5-cleft, rather thin, the lobes dentate, both surfaces 
finely pubescent or nearly glabrous, not glandular or with few glands, the base truncate or 
subcordate, the pubescent petioles mostly shorter than the blades; peduncles pubescent, 
about as long asthe blades, 2-3-flowered; bracts broad, shorter than the pedicels; ovary 
glabrous ; hypanthium yellow, pubescent, about 2.5-3 mm. long, short-cylindric, as long as 
or somewhat shorter than the yellow pubescent or ciliate sepals; petals shorter than the 
sepals, a little longer than the stamens ; anthers short-oblong ; style glabrous ; berry smooth, 
globose, about 8 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY : El Paso de Robles, California. 
DISTRIBUTION : Middle California to Lower California. 
25. Grossularia velutina (Greene) Coville & Britton. 
Ribes leptanthum brachyanthum A. Gray, Bot. Calif.1: 205, 1876. 
Ribes velutinum Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 83, 1885. 
Ribes brachyanthum Card, Bush Fruits 460. 1898. 
Ribes glanduliferum Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 56. 1905. 
Ribes Stanfordii Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 41: 315. 1906. 
Ribes velutinum brachyanthum Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 381. 1907. 
Ribes velutinum Greeneianum Jancz. Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 381. 1907. 
A shrub 2 m. high or less, with recurved branches devoid of bristles, the young 
shoots finely pubescent; nodal spines pale, acicular, 0.5-2 cm. long, straight or slightly 
curved. Leaves suborbicular in outline, 3-5-cleft, crenate, 1-1.5 cm. wide, cordate or 
truncate at the base, finely pubescent on both sides, or sometimes nearly glabrous; petioles 
pubescent and sometimes with some gland-tipped hairs, mostly shorter than the blades; 
peduncles 1-3-flowered, shorter than the leaves; bracts broad, pubescent, longer than the 
pedicels, or shorter ; ovary densely pubescent, often glandular-hairy, rarely glabrous ; hypan- 
thium short-cylindric, pubescent, about 2 mm. long and 3 mm. in diameter; sepals yellow, 
somewhat pubescent, about 3 mm. long; petals oblong to obovate, yellow, 2-2.5 mm. long ; 
stamens not exceeding the petals, the anthers obtuse, 1-1.5 mm. long; style glabrous; 
berry yellow, about 7 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Northern part of California and regions adjacent. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oregon to Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, andthe mountains of southern 
California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: C. K. Schneid. Handb, Laubh. 1: /. 262 v, w ; Jancz. loc. cit. f. 106. 
26. Grossularia Cynosbati (L.) Mill. Gard. Dict. 
ed. 8.no. 5. 1768. 
Ribes Cynosbati I,. Sp. Pl. 202. 1753. 
Ribes gracile Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1: 111. 1803. 
Ribes Cynosbati glabratum Fernald, Rhodora 7: 156. 1905. 
Stems usually less than 1.5m. high, the nodal spines slender, solitary or sometimes 
2 or 3 together, erect or spreading, 6-10 mm. long, or often wanting ; prickles few and weak 
or none. Petioles 12-35 mm. long, slender, generally pubescent, sometimes with gland- 
tipped hairs; leaf-blades nearly orbicular, 3-5 cm. broad, somewhat pubescent, at least when 
young, truncate or cordate at the base, deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenate-dentate or 
incised ; peduncles and pedicels slender, the peduncles 1~3-flowered ; bracts small, ovate, 
much shorter than the pedicels; ovary setose; hypanthium green, ovoid-cylindric, much 
thicker than the ovary, 3-4 mm. long, about as thick aslong, glabrous; sepals green, oblong, 
shorter than the hypanthium ; petals obovate, shorter than the sepals; stamens a little longer 
