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BOTANY. 
quent on the mountains throughout Nevada and Utah, from their base to 
nearly the highest peaks; 5-11,000 feet altitude; May-September. (379.) 
RiBES viscosissiMUM, Pursh. Unarmed, viscid-pubescent; leaves cordate, 
roundish, obtusely 3-5-lobed, the lobes short, rounded, doubly creuate- 
serrate ; racemes suberect, somewhat corymbed ; bracts conspicuous, spatu- 
late, nearly equaling the glandular pedicels ; calyx campanulate, the greenish- 
yellow segments rather shorter than the tube ; style 2-cleft at the apex ; 
fruit ovoid, black, viscid-pubescent. — Stems 3° high, rather weak, growing 
on shaded mountain slopes ; flowers large, ^ long above the ovary. Rocky 
Mountains of Idaho. In the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 8-9,000 feet altitude ; 
June-August. (380.) 
RiBES SANGuiNEUM, Pursh. Unarmed, gland ular-puberulent or more 
or less tomentose ; leaves cordate, 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate, subglabrous 
above ; racemes puberulent and glandular, exceeding the leaves, loosely 
many-flowered ; pedicels about the length of the flowers, rather shorter than 
the ovate-spatulate bracts ; calyx tubular-campanulate, the segments ovate or 
oblong, obtuse, reflexed, longer than the petals ; style more or less bifid ; 
fruit subglobose, somewhat glandular-hirsute, destitute of pulp. — A variable 
species, doubtless including i?. glutinosum, Benth., and perhaps also R. 
malvaceunij Sm., which, however, has the leaves strigose-hirsute above, the 
racemes shorter and more dense, and the style and interior of the calyx-tube 
hairy. The calyx is 3-5" in length and with the bracts usually of a deep 
rose-cplor. Frequent from Washington Territory through California. 
Var. VAKIEGATUM. Nearly glabrous throughout, with the petioles and 
peduncles glandular-puberulent, and the ovary somewhat glandular-hispid ; 
flowers in short dense racemes, the pedicels about equaling the ovate reddish 
bracts ; calyx campanulate, the tube very short, scarcely equaling the ovate 
deep rose-red segments ; petals white, rounded, short ; style deeply bifid. — 
Possibly a distinct species, but probably only an extreme form of R. san- 
guineuin in those respects in which that species is most variable — pubescence, 
form of the calyx, and denseness of inflorescence, None of the specimens are 
yet in full flower. A branching shrub, 2-3° high ; Washoe Mountains, near 
Carson City, on stream banks ; 5,000 feet altitude ; April. Collected also 
by Dr. Anderson. (381.) 
RiBES AUREUM, Pursh. Unarmed, glabrous ; leaves convolute in verna- 
tion, rather thick, 3-lol)ed, lobes divaricate, incisely few-toothed, ciliate when 
