CATALOGUE. 99 
Colorado (Vasey.) Found in the Uinta Mountains ; 8,000 feet altitude ; 
August. (375.) 
Var. A more alpine form, witli small leaves, ^-V broad, glabrous or 
somewhat glandular-pubescent, the racemes short, 3-5-flowered ; fruit hispid ; 
the younger branches often very prickly. This, according to Dr. Gray, is 
the 2?. setosum of Douglas from the Saskatchewan. Frequent in the Rocky 
Mountains of Colorado and collected by Prof Brewer in the Sierras of 
CaHfornia. In the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 
9-10,000 feet altitude ; July, August. (376.) 
RiBES PEOSTRATUM, L'Hcr. Leavcs about 2' in diameter ; racemes short 
and few-flowered. New England to Pennsj lvaiiia and Wisconsin, north to 
latitude 57° and west to the Pacific Coast from Washington Territory to 
Sitka ; Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Wahsatch Mountains ; 9,000 feet 
altitude; July. (377.) 
RiBES BEACTEOSUM, Dougl. Unarmed, glabrous; leaves on long petioles, 
cordate, deeply 5-7-lobed, sprinkled with resinous dots beneatli, the lobes 
acuminate, coarsely doubly serrate or incised ; racemes long, erect, many- 
flowered, on short peduncles ; calyx rotate, glabrous ; flowers white ; fruit 
black, resinous-dotted and scarcely eatable. — Stems 4-8° high, rather weak ; 
leaves often large, 3-7' broad; the elongated fruiting racemes 4-10' long. 
Nearly allied to the last but distinguished by the longer nearly sessile 
racemes of numerous flowers, the glabrous fruit, and the larger, more sharply 
serrate leaves. On the western coast from Sitka to California (Bolander.) 
In the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 6-7,000 
feet altitude ; in flower. May ; in fruit, August. (378.) 
RiBES CEREUM, Dougl. Unarmed ; leaves roundish, mostly cordate, 
3-5-lobed, incisely crenate, viscid-pubescent or nearly glabrous, often 
resinous-dotted; racemes nodding, on short peduncles, crowded, 3-5-flowered; 
bracts ovate, appressed to the nearly sessile ovary ; calyx tul)ular, glaiididar, 
the segments very short, recurved ; petals minute, orbicular ; stamens 
included; style undivided; siiijiiias two; fruit globose, usually somewhat 
glandular. — A diffusely branching shrub, 1-3° high ; leaves j-1' broad ; 
calyx 3-4" long, pinkish white; peduncles rarely \' long; fruit Ii«f]it-red, 
sweet, somew^hat resinous. Tlie amount of tlie resinous secretion upon the 
plant varies nearly with the elevation of the locality.. From Wasliington 
Territory and California to Colorado and southward in New Mexico. Fre- 
