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chief food of chipmunks and chickadees; Mt. Pinos, J. Grinnell 28; Devils Punch Bowl, San 

 Gabriel Mts., Peirson 516 ; North Baldy, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 256 ; Dry Lake, San Bernar- 

 dino Mts., J. Grinnell 1 ; Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 2320 ; Santa Rosa Peak, Jepson 1450. 



Refs. — RiBES CERETJM Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7:512 (1830), type loe. upper Columbia 

 River, Douglas; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1263 (1829) ; Jepson, Man. 468, fig. 462 (1925). B. balsami- 

 ferum Kell. Proc. Gal. Acad. 2:94, fig. 25 (1861), type loc. Washoe, Nev., J. A. Veatch. Var. 

 viridescens Jancz. Mem. Soc. Geneve 35:338 (1907), the foliage greener and less glandular. — 

 Colo, and Cal. (Sierra Nevada). 



3. R. viscosissimum Pursh. Mountain Currant. Leafy shrub 1 to 3 feet 

 high with reddish shreddy bark and fragrant foliage ; herbage glandular-hispidu- 

 lose and also puberulent, especially on the branchlets and petioles; leaf -blades 

 cordate-rounded, shallowly 3-lobed with rounded lobes and open sinuses, crenate, 

 11/2 to 2Y2 inches broad; racemes ascending, short, somewhat corymb-like, 3 to 

 13-flowered; bracts oblong, conspicuous; flowers 8 lines long; pedicels 2 to 5 lines 

 long; calyx greenish or pinkish, its tube nearly as broad as long, its oblong lobes 

 at least half the length of the tube; petals dull white, broadly ovate, very obtuse, 

 their tips approximate and so narrowing the opening a little; stamens not exceed- 

 ing the petals; ovary covered with gland-tipped hairs; berry black, more or less 

 glandular-bristly. 



High mountains, 8000 to 9500 feet : Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Mariposa 

 Co.; eastern Modoc Co. East to the Rocky Mts. and north to British Columbia, 

 June-July. 



Locs. — Hockett Mdw., Little Kern River, Ctdbertson 4383; Wilsonia, Grant Park, Newlon 

 217; Kaweah Mdws., Sequoia Park, Purpus 1464; Huntington Lake, A. L. Grant 1027; McClure 

 Fork Merced River, Jepson 3220; betw. White Wolf Mdw. and Harden Lake, Tuolumne Co., 



A. L. Grant 1274; Pine Creek basin, Warner Mts., Frances Payne 50. 



Var. hallii Jancz. Calyx purple-tipped; ovary glabrous; berry glabrous, with a bloom. — 

 Sierra Nevada from Mariposa Co. northward to Mt. Shasta, thence west into the far North Coast 

 Ranges. This is a fairly well-marked geographic variety, but there are intermediate states in the 

 region where the variety and species meet. For example a collection from Matterhorn Canon, 

 Yoscmite Park, Jepson 4498, is such a transition form; in these spms. glabrous and gland-tipped 

 ovaries occur on the same branchlet; while one may also find flowers on a given branchlet, some 

 with white, others with purple calyx-lobes. The following are fairly typical of the variety: Glen 

 Alpine, Eldorado Co., Pendleton d' Reed 1060 ; Summit sta., Nevada Co., Jepson 13,505 ; Truckee, 

 Sonne 59; Webber Lake, Doten; Alturas, Goldsmith; Mill Canon, ne. Modoc Co., Manning; 

 Medicine Lake, M. S. Baker 472; Ash Creek, Mt. Shasta, M. S. BaTcer; Shackelford Canon, w. 

 Siskiyou Co., Jepson 2821 ; Cold Spring Camp, Woolly Creek, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 260; Jackson 

 Lake, Siskiyou Co., Alexander 4- Kellogg 148; Trinity Summit, Jepson 2037. 



Refs. — RiBES VISCOSISSIMUM Pursh, Fl. 1:163 (1814), type loc. Lolo Trail, Bitterroot Mts., 

 Ida., Lewis (cf. Piper, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11 :326,— 1906) ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 :234, t. 76 

 (1834) ; Jepson, Man. 469 (1925). Var. hallii Jancz. Mem. Soc. Geneve 35:328, fig. 62 (1907). 



B. hallii Jancz. Bull. Intern. Acad. Sci. Crae. 1906:9, type loc. Lake Independence, Hall 4" Bah- 

 cock 4533 (not 5533), 4320 (not 4370). 



4. R. nevadense Kell. Seerra Currant. Slender diffuse or erect shrub 3 to 

 6 feet high; foliage and racemes similar to R. glutinosum, but the flowers very 

 much shorter; calyx reddish, 1 to 2 lines long, its tube short and broad, almost 

 bowl-shaped, its lobes erect; petals white, slightly shorter than the calyx-lobes; 

 style very short; berry blue-black but covered with a white bloom. 



Higher mountains, 3600 to 7100 feet : North Coast Ranges from Trinity Co. 

 to Siskiyou Co.; Sierra Nevada from Shasta Co. to Tulare Co.; south to the San 

 Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. May-July. 



Locs. — Grizzly Creek, Trinity Co., Alexander tf- Kellogg 275; Shackelford Creek, w. Siskiyou 

 Co., Butler 1759; Jackson Lake, Siskiyou Co., Alexander <S- Kellogg 164; Mt. Shasta, Jepson 

 13,520 (leaves minutely glandular-dotted beneath) : Goose Valley, Shasta Co., M. S. Baker; Man- 

 zanita Lake, Lassen Peak, Jepson 15,290 ; Rich Point, Middle Fork Feather River, Jepson 10,617 

 Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 13,521; Glen Alpine, Eldorado Co., Pendleton ^ Eeed 1061 

 Kyburz, South Fork American River, Bamuley 11,268; Antelope, Amador Co., Hansen 1690 

 Calaveras Big Trees, A. L. Grant; Hetch Hetchy, Jepson 3473 (a form of a dry situation) 

 Peregoy Mdw., Yosemite Park, A. L. Grant 1305; Bench Mdw., Kaiser Ridge, Jepson 13,277 



