Re irriguum Dougl. A more or less straggling shrub, even diffuse, 
the branches 1-2 m. tall, drooping, infrequently rooting when touching the 
ground; bark ches tnut-brown, rather shining, marked by transverse lenticels, 
often shredding, young bark ‘dull grey, the new growth becoming pale strawe 
colored, rarely brown, densely crisp-pubescent, frequently with longer go 
hairs, obscurely clandular, the nodal spines stout, 1-3, seldom wanting, ¢ 
canes more or less bristly: buds 5 mm. long, lanceolate, very acute, 
usually terete and bisecting the angle, sometimes flattened and appressed, the 
scales puberulent, the margins ciliolate, not glandular, the terminal bud 
scarcely larger; leaf blades ¢-6 cm. in diameter, rotund or rotund-reniform 
in outline, o-lobed, the lowermost obscure, the upper cut to the middle or 
‘more, obovate, cuneate, incised and toothed above the middle, the teeth ovate, 
apiculate, cordate at the base, the sinus broad, or truncate, both surfaces : 
softly pubescent, the lower velvety and obscurely glandular with small . 
stalked glands; petioles about equal to the blades, villous, bearing stalked 
glands and plumose hairs on the expanded base; racemes droopin:, borne on 
lateral fruiting spurs, 1-5 flowered, glandular and woolly, the bracts 1-2 mm. 
long, rotund-ovate glandular and woolly; pedicels 2-5 mm. lons; caly: tubular, 
glaorous or sparinsly hispid, greenisiu-white or purplish, the tube 3-3.5 m. 
long, somewhat constricted at tne base, aairy within, the lobes soon reflexed, 
oval or obovate 5 mne lonz; petals obovate, subequal to the tube; stamens 
equalling the sepals, inserted at the apex of the tube, hairy at the base; 
Styles uiited about half their length, pilose at the middle, equalling the 
Sepals; berry smooth, reddish-purple, not glandular, 6-12 mm. in diameter, 
bearing a very light bloom; seeds ovoid, 2.5 ma. long. 
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Frequent in our region except in the Priest River and Clearwater River 
drainages, usually below 5000 feet, occurring mostly in the open, along rocky 
river banks, on o] ate s or in ary Douglas fir-larch forests at low altitudes. 
