198 Coville — Ribes Mescalerium, an Undescribed Cvrrant. 



branched form common in cereicm. Viscosissimitm is ordinarily 

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



The name selected for the species, tnescaleriufn, 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. 



