198 Coville Ribes Mescalerium, an Undescribed Currant. 



branched form common in ceretim. Viscosissimum is ordinarily 

 a few-branched straggling shrub 2 to 4 feet high. 



The name selected for the species, mescalerium, commemo 

 rates the Mescalero Apaches, a tribe of Indians who in former 

 times inhabited the region in which the plant occurs and who 

 now occupy a reservation in the White Mountains of Lincoln 

 County, New Mexico. 



