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crimson or dark purple, smooth or with gland-tipped 

 hairs, Y^ to 2/3 inch in diameter. 



Occurrence. — mesa VERDE, rare: head of Navajo Canyon. 

 GRAND CANYON, 5,500 lo 9,100 feet. North Rim, common in 

 the canyons at edge of rim: Bright Angel Point; Point Sub- 

 lime; Point Imperial; Cape Royal; Powell Plateau; Neal 

 Spring. South Rim, common near nm : below Grand View ; 

 Yavapai Point. Canyon, common: Bright Angel trail; Kaibab 

 trail about I'/2 miles below North Rim. 



20a. WooLLYFLOWER GoosEBERRY (Var. lasian- 

 thum (Greene) Jepson) . — Flowers yellow, the tubes 

 hairy, borne in groups of 2 to 4; berries yellow or dark 

 red, smooth or nearly so. 



Occurrence. — LASSEN. YOSEMITE: Merced Lake; Lyell 

 Fork Tuolumne River; Bloody Canyon; Mono Pass; Merced 

 Lake trail. SEQUOIA, 7,000 to 11,000 feet: Farewell Gap; 

 Hockett Meadows. 



2L Redshoot Gooseberry (Ribes setosum 

 Lindl.). — Similar to trumpet Gooseberry, but smaller; 

 stems spreading, 1 to 21/2 feet long, more or less prickly 

 between the 3 stout spines; flowers 1 to 3 in a cluster, 

 white, tinged with violet; berry smooth, red to black; 

 occurs in moist locations in the 

 Rocky Mountains. (Syn. R. saxi- 

 montanum E. Nels.) 

 Occurrence. — YELLOWSTONE: Mammoth. ROCKY MOUN- 

 TAIN. ISLE ROYALE: reported by Holt on shore cf Siskowit 

 Lake. 



22. Desert Gooseberry {Rib e s yelutinum 

 Greene). — Somewhat similar in appearance to trumpet 

 gooseberry; spines usually 1 below the leaves, long and 

 slender; leaves small, deeply indented; flowers yellowish 

 or whitish, bell -shaped, 1 to 4 on drooping stems; ber- 

 ries purplish, densely soft-fuzzy, about 1/6 to I/4 inch in 

 diameter; occurs on mountain slopes of the interior 

 plateau region. 



Occurrence. — GRAND CANYON, on the South Rim and below, 

 3,000 to 8,000 feet: Grand View road; Bright Angel trail. 



23. Sierra Gooseberry (Ribes Roezli Regel.), 

 fig. 40. — Stout, spreading shrub, II/2 to 5 feet high; 

 stems with 1 to 3 spines below the leaves, not prickly 

 between; .leaves usually i/^ to 1 inch across, hairy or 

 smooth, roundish or kidney-shaped, divided into 3 to 5 

 broad lobes, the margins toothed; flowers y^ to 1 inch 



lA rn 3/ 



Fig. 39. Trumpet 



gooseberry (Rihes 



leplanthum) . 



/2 to 1 incr 

 long, the tube dark purplish-red, 1/2 to % inch long, 

 more or less hairy, with 5 teeth as long as the tube; 



Fig. 40. Sierra goose- 

 berry (Ribes 

 Roezli) . 



