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Maple leaved Currant.) 
Re. acerifolium Howell. Stems decumbent, often trailing for several 
5g 
eet, bark reddish gray or mahogany color, smooth, shining, marked by trans- 
verse checks in age; branchlets white, turning brown, minutely puberulent, 
sprinkled with golden, sessile glands; petioles about as long as the blades, 
puberulent, reddish, well expanded at the base, the margins membranous in 
some and substipular, usually bearing stalked glands 2-3 ma. long, the hairs 
plumose; blades orbicular-reniform in outline, 5-6 cm. in diameter, 5-lobed, 
the lower lobes obscure, the upper divergent, all ovate, obtuse or acute, 
the base truncate or cordate with an open sinus, the margin doubly dentatee> 
serrate, the teeth ovate, obtuse, 1-2 ma. long; the veins impressed prominent 
‘conspicuousy sessile, glands; buds green, 5-5 mm. long,ovoid, obtuse, appressed, 
beneath, subvarallel, giving a characteristic appearance to the leaf, upper 
surface somewhat shining, the lower puberulent on the veins, sprinkled with 
inconspicuous, the terminal larger; racemes drooping, 7-15 flowered, pubescent 
and glandular with short-stalked glands, the bracts oblong, 5-6 mma. long, 
membranous; pedicels 2-5 mn. long; calyx campanulate, the ovary globose, 
constricted at the apex, pubescent and bearing stalked glands, the tube 1 mm. 
long, the lobes oval, veiny, <.5 m. lon, finely woolly, greenish; stamens 
scarcely 2 me long, the filaments subulate; petals rose-colored, obovates> 
spatulate, 1-1.2 ma. long; styles & mm. long, united 2/3 their length; fruit 
globose, 5-6 mm. in diameter, erect by reason of the recurved pedicels, black 
with a heavy bloom, thus appearing blue, bearing a few stalked glands; seeds 
ovoid, flattened, 5 mm. lonz. (RB. Howellii Greeneg). <—~ 
Lion Head Mt., in the drainages of Lion and Two Mouth creeks, 4500-5500 
feet, growing there along the margins of the streams, associated with Ribes 
lacustre, Menziesia glabella and Shodendron albiflorum, abundant locally. 
One specimen was found in the valley of tne upper Priest tiver, at an 
elevation of about 2800 feet. = 
