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3. jAMESIA Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1 : 593. 1840. 



Shrub with erect stems, usually shreddy bark, and deciduous toothed leaves. Flowers 

 showy, perfect, cymose. Hypanthium turbinate to hemispheric, the lobes 5, triangular- 

 ovate to lanceolate. Petals 5, convolute, oblong-obovate, pubescent within. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments subulate. Ovary imperfectly 3-5-celled; styles 3-5, distinct; stigmas terminal. 

 Ovules numerous. Capsule about half inferior, conic, beaked by the persistent distinct 

 styles. [Name in honor of Dr. Edwin James, botanist of Long's Expedition to the Rocky 

 Mountains, 1820.] 



A monotypic genus of western North America. There is an earlier Jamesia (Raf. 1832) but Torrey and 

 Gray's name has been conserved. 



1. Jamesia americana var. californica (Small) Jepson. Jamesia or Cliff Bush. 



Fig. 2308. 



Edwinia californica Small, N. Amer. Fl. 22: 176. 190S. 



Jamesia americana var. californica Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 466. 1925. 



Erect much branched shrub, 2-10 dm. high, the bark shreddy, grayish- or reddish-brown, 

 the young twigs strigose or short-villous. Leaves ovate, 15-25 mm. long, prominently crenate- 

 serrate, the teeth mucronulate, lower surface strigose-canescent, the upper sparsely strigose and 

 dark green, lateral veins prominent, impressed on the upper surface; pedicels and hypanthium 

 strigose; sepals triangular-ovate, about 2.5 mm. long; petals 6-7 mm. long, narrowly oblong- 

 ovate ; styles elongating after anthesis, becoming twice the length of the calyx. 



Rock ledges, Arctic-Alpine Zone; southern Sierra Nevada, from Mono County to Tulare County, also in the 

 Panamint Mountains, California. June-Aug. 



4. FENDLERELLA Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 25 : 626. 1898. 

 Low or depressed shrub, with shreddy bark. Leaves opposite, small, entire and sub- 



2309. Fendlerella utahensis 



2310. Whipplea modesta 



2311. Ribes lacustre 



2312. Ribes montigenum 



2313. Ribes viburnifolium 



2314. Ribes bracteosum 



