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peduncles mostly shorter than the petioles, 1-4-flowered; bracts small, much shorter than 
the pedicels; ovary glabrous; hypanthium glabrous, narrowly campanulate, green, 2,5-3.5 
mim. long, a little longer than the green or purplish glabrous sepals; petals pink or white, 
oblong to obovate, about a third as long as the sepals; stamens about twice as long as the 
petals, shorter than the sepals; berry wine-colored, smooth, about 8 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Slough Creek, Yellowstone Park. 
DISTRIBUTION : Montana to the interior of British Columbia, eastern Washington, Oregon, and 
California, Utah, and New Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Janez. loc. cit. 110 a, 6, d, e, 
39. Grossularia klamathensis Coville, sp. nov. 
A shrub 1-2 m. high, erect, seldom with any bristles, the young twigs white and gla- 
brous; nodal spines usually single, 1 cm. or less in length, often wanting. Leaf-blades 
Gre onic alae often broader than long, 2-5 cm. wide, cordate at the base, 3-5-lobed, 
crenate, villous on both surfaces; petioles pubescent along the upper side, glabrous on the 
lower, often fibrillate toward the base; peduncles commonly 1-2 cm. long, glabrous, 2-5- 
flowered; bracts ovate, ciliate, about 2 mm. long; pedicels 8 mm. or less long, glabrous; 
ovary glabrous; hypanthium sparingly villous or glabrous, green, about 2 mm. long; 
sepals linear-oblong, about 4 mm. in length, green, often purple-margined, sparingly vil- 
lous or glabrous; petals-half the length of the sepals or less, white, fan-shaped; stamens 
equaling the sepals or nearly so; styles hairy; berry black with a bloom, 6-10 mm. in 
diameter. 
Type collected at Keno, Klamath County, Oregon, May 10, 1898, Elmer I. Applegate 2008. 
DISTRIBUTION : Southern Oregon and northeastern California. 
40. Grossularia hirtella (Michx.) Spach, Hist. Vég. 6: 180. 1838. 
Ribes hirtellum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1: 111. 1803. 
Ribes saxosum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 231. 1832. 
Ribes oxyacanthoides saxosum Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb..4: 100. 1893. (As to name.) 
Ribes huronense Rydb.; Britton, Man. 487. 19 be 
Ribes oxyacanthoides calcicola Fernald, Rhodora 7: 155. 1905. 
A shrub 6-12 dm. high, with slender, mostly esetose branches, but sometimes bristly ; 
bark of the older branches dark-brown, the young shoots gray and glabrous; nodal spines 
usually wanting, if present subulate, 12 mm. long or less. Leaves ovate-orbicular to reni- 
form-orbicular in outline, incisely 3-5-lobed and dentate, mostly cuneate at the base, vary- 
ing to subcordate, thin, 2-6 cm. wide, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, not glandular, the 
slender petioles often bearing long hairs; peduncles 1-3-flowered, not longer than the peti- 
oles; bracts only about 1.5mm. long, much shorter than the pedicels; ovary glabrous, 
rarely pubescent or with stalked glands; hypanthium greenish, narrowly campanulate, 
glabrous or sparingly villous, about 3 mm. long, equaling or a little shorter than the 
green or purplish sepals; petals obovate, about half as long as the stamens; style villous; 
berry glabrous, or rarely with stalked glands, purple or black, globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Saguenay River (Quebec). 
DISTRIBUTION : Newfoundland to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Sputh Dakota, and 
Manitoba. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. fl. 6892; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1868; Card, Bush Fruits /. 
92; Cycl. Am. Hort. f. 2220 (all as Ribes oxyacanthoides) ; ’Mém. Soc. Genéve 35°: J. 111 (as Ribes 
gracile). 
EXCLUDED SPECIES 
Ribes resinosum Pursh, Bot. Mag. p/. 2583 (1813), supposed to have been collected by 
Fraser in the mountains of North America, is Rides orientale Desf., of Asia. 
