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Ranjje and tlie Sierra, but chiefly northward ; apparently uncommon 

 within our limits ; on the Salinas, Klee. Called R. aureum in the " Botany 

 of California ; " but that has spicy-fragrant flowers, a purple opaque 

 sweetish fruit, and is not found on the Pacific Coast. 



* * Unaruied; leaces plailed in ilu bud; calyx-iube broader. — 

 EiBES proper (Currant). 



2. R. bracteosuiii, Dougl.; Hook. Fl. i. 233 (1833). Shrub 4—10 ft. 

 high ; branches glabrous : leaves 3 — 9 in. broad, 5— 7-cleft, glabrous, at 

 least in age, but resinous-dotted ; lobes ovate or narrower, acute or 

 acuminate, coarsely and doubly serrate ; petioles long : raceme go - 

 flowered, 3 — 6 in. or at length 1 ft. long ; bracts persistent, from filiform 

 to spatulate, or the lower larger and passing into leaves : fl. greenish- 

 white ; calyx-tube saucer-shaped, the lobes roundish : berry black, 

 resinous-dotted, I3 in. in diameter. — Woods of Mendocino Co., Bolander, 

 thence northward to Alaska. 



3. R. cereniii, Dougl.; Bot. Eeg. t. 1263(1829). Shrub 1—3 ft. high, 

 with many short stout branches, minutely pubescent, resinous-dotted 

 and glutinous : leaves 1 in. broad, rounded or reniform, rather obscurely 

 3-lobed, crenately toothed or incised : racemes compact, short-peduncled, 

 3 — 5-flowered : calyx white, often with a greenish or pinkish tinge ; 

 tube cylindrical, Jg in. long ; lobes short, ovate, recurved : petals orbicu- 

 lar : berry scarlet, translucent, the pulp very firm, sweet, but with a 

 disagreeable resinous flavor. — The commonest species of the Rocky 

 Mountain region, reaching the eastern, and even the western slope of the 

 Sierra Ne^^ada within our borders ; rather ornamental, whether in flower 

 or fruit, but the fruit of no value. 



4. R. viscosissimum, Pursh, Fl. i. 163 (1814) ; Hook. Fl. t. 76. Shrub 

 2 — 6 ft. high, with straggling branches and smooth dark brown bark : 

 leaves thin, 1 — 4 in. broad, round-cordate, moderately lobed, both faces 

 and the petioles clothed with glandular-viscid hairs ; stipules foliaceous 

 racemes ascending, somewhat corymbose : fl. large, greenish-white 

 calyx-tube campanulate, the oblong-ovate lobes scarcely spreading 

 petals white, smaller than the calyx-lobes : berry oblong, ^g in. long, 

 black, glandular-hirsute. — Forests of the higher Sierra, in dry rocky 

 places, as far south as Mariposa Co., but more common northward. 



5. R. saiig^nineniii, Pursh, 1. c. 164 (1814); Smith, Eees Cycl. xxx. 

 (1815) ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1349. Shrub 4—8 ft. high ; young branches 

 dull-red and densely soft-puberulent : leaves cordate, 3— 5-lobed, thick - 

 ish, 2 — 3 in. broad, very soft-tomentulose on both faces ; the ascending 

 petioles 2 in. long, gradually dilated and very coarsely ciliate at base : 

 racemes short-peduncled, ascending, 00 -flowered, dense : calyx not brac- 

 teolate at base, campanulate-funnelform, 6 lines long, deep rose-red. 



