326 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



This species has been confused with Ribes hudsonianum Richards., which is ^ot known 

 west of the Rocky Mountains. 



14. Ribes ciliosum Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 1: 208. 1898. 



Ribes miijrdtorhim Suksdorf, Deutsche Bot. Monatss. 18: 86. 1900. 



T\PE locality: ' ' Marshy ground about the base of Mt. Hood on the south side," Oregon. 

 Collected by Howell. 



Range: Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington. 



Specimens examined: Skamania County, Suksdorf 969; Klickitat River, Flett 1320; 

 without locality, Vasey in 1889. 



15. Ribes sanguineum Pursh, Fl. 1: 164. 1814. Red flowering currant. 

 Type locality: "On the Columbia River." Collected by Lewis. The exact locality 



was near Deer Island. 



Range: British Columbia to California in the coast region. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 2658, 2654; Cascade Mountains, latitude 

 49°, Lyall in 1859; Seattle, Piper 97; Lake Washington, Engelman c£' Sargent, July 16, 1880; 

 Admiralty Head, Piper, April, 1898; Tacoma, Fleit 69; upper Nisqually Valley, Allen 80; 

 Port Ludlow, Binns; Silverton, Bouck 66; Columbia River, Douglas in 1833; without 

 locality. Cooper; Lake Chelan, LaTce & Hull 462. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



The color of the flowers of this species varies from veiy dark to very pale crimson. Occa- 

 sional specimens are white-flowered. 



16. Ribes cereum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 7: 512. 1830. 

 Ribes reniforme Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 21. 1834. 



Type locality: On "the river Columbia from the Great Falls 45° 46' 17" N. Lat. to 

 the source of that stream in the Rocky Mts." Collected by Douglas. 



Range: British Columbia to New Mexico and South Dakota. 



Specimens examined: Ellensburg, Piper 2625; Mount Adams SuTcsdorf, September, 

 1877; Columbia Valley, Lyall in 1860; Rock Island, Sandberg cfc Leiberg 442; Rattlesnake 

 Mountains, Cotton 324; upper Naches River, Henderson, June, 1892; White Bluff's, Lake 

 cfc Hull 461; Rock Lake, Sandberg & Leiberg, June, 1893; Rock Creek, Sandberg cfc Lei- 

 berg 93; Coulee City, Henderson, July, 1892; Spokane, Sandberg, McDougal & Heller, 

 April 20, 1892; Heller 2936; Pullman, Piper, May, 1894; near Almota, Piper, April, 1894, 

 June, 1894; without locality, Vasey in 1889. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran. 



17. Ribes viscosissimum Pursh, Fl. 1: 163. 1814. 



Type locality: "On the Rocky Mountains in the interior of North America." Col- 

 lected by Lewis. The e.^act locality is on the Lolo Trail, Bitterroot Mountains, Idaho. 



Range: British Columbia to California and Montana. 



Specimens examined: Twisp River, Whited 181, and July, 1896; Klickitat River, Fleit 

 1306; Conconully, Whited 1323; Nason Creek, Sandberg & Leiberg 684; Spokane, Sand- 

 berg & Leiberg, May, 1893; Blue Mountains, P/;w, July, 1896; Sargent, July 3, 1S96; with- 

 out locality, Brandegee in 1883; without locality, Vasey \a 1889; Mount Carlton, Ereager 

 251; Wenache Mountains, Cotton 1278. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition and Canadian. 



18. Ribes aureum Pursh, Fl. 1: 164. 1814. Golden currant. 

 Type locality: "On the banks of the rivers Missouri and C()luml)ia." Collected by 



Lewis. 



Range: Washington to Montana and southward to California. 



Specimens examined: Wenache, Whited 22; 1349; Ellensburg, PZ/vr in 1897; Naches 

 River, Henderson in 1892; Douglas County, Spdhnan in 1896; North Yakima, Flett in 



