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ward in the Rocky Mountains ; California. In the East Humboldt Mountains, 
Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 7,000 feet aUitude ; June-September. (372.) 
RiBES IRRIGUUM, Dougl. Branches naked or prickly ; subaxillary 
spines 3, or sometimes more, stout, rarely reflexed ; leaves roundish, 5-lobed, 
cuneate, truncate or subcordate at base, crenately serrate, nearly glabrous, 
somewhat hairy between the veins beneath and cihate ; peduncles slender 
and usually elongated, 3-flowered, glabrous, the bracts somewhat glandular- 
ciUate calyx cylindrical and narrow (with the ovary often J' long,) glabrous, 
the segments Hnear-oblong, exceeding the tube, sometimes reflexed; the 
petals short, oblong-spatulate ; the stamens usually exceeding the calyx but 
shorter than the deeply cleft style, filaments and style hairy ; fmit rather 
large, smooth, deep-purple, edible. — Stems 6° high, branches red ; leaves 
1-1 J' in diameter; flowers purphsh white. The above description is drawn 
from a large number of specimens. From New Mexico (353 Fendler) and 
Colorado (James) to Oregon (330 Geyer) and Cahfornia (1756 Brewer;) 
also collected by Frdmont on the Sweetwater and by Stretch in Washoe 
Valley. Abundant on stream-banks in the West Humboldt Mountains, 
Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude ; flowering in June, fruit ripe in September and 
October. (373.) 
RiBES LEPTANTHUM, Gray. Plant. FendL, p. 53. Without prickles ; 
the subaxillary spines solitary, (rarely 2-3,) stout ; the dense minute pubes- 
cence glandular and often mixed with resinous dots or the whole plant glab- 
rous ; leaves small, numerous, 5-cleft, lobes incised ; peduncles short, deflexed, 
with 1-2 yellow flowers ; calyx tubular or somewhat campanulate, more or 
less silky-pubescent, the lobes sub-spatulate, often reflexed, equahng the 
tube and about twice longer than the stamens and petals ; style glabrous, 
undivided, stigmas two ; fruit unarmed, glabrous. — Low (2-3° high) and 
diffusely branched; leaves usually 4-6", sometimes 1' broad; flowers 2-4" 
long. Collected by James and also by Fremont (254, 1844, and 372, 1846) 
and frequently since ; New Mexico, Colorado and California. Frequent on 
the Waslioe and Trinity Mountains, Nevada, and also found at Black Rock, 
at the southern end of Salt Lake; 4,300-6,000 feet altitude; April, 
May. (374.) 
RiBES LACUSTRE, Polr. Raccmes G-T-flowered ; fruit nearly smooth ; 
leaves 1 J' in diameter. New England to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, north- 
ward to the Arctic Circle and west to Washington Territory and Alaska ; 
