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(sheep do not browse it in this district); Marble Fork Kawoah Kivcr, Jcpson 692; Garfield 

 Forest, Sequoia Park, Jcpson 4(>71 ; Mt. Wilson, Pcirson 72; San Bernardino Mts. (Fish Creek, 

 J. GrinnrU, Mill Creek Canon, Jcpson 5585) ; Strawberry Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 130G; 

 Tahquitz Vallev, Mt. San Jacinto. F. M. Rccd 2309. 



Rcfs.— Kibes ne\-adense Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 1:03 (1855), ed. 2, 1:65 (1873), type loc. 

 above Placerville, E. TV. Garvett (of. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card. 6:367) ; Jepson, Man. 469 (1925). 

 R. malvacenm Kell. I.e. 46. not Smith. K. sanguincum var. varicgatum Wats. Bot. King 100 

 (1871), tvpe loc. Washoe Mts. near Carson City, Nev., Watson 381. E. ascendens Eastw. Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. ser. 3, Bot. 2:244, pi. 23, figs. 4a, 4b (1902), type loc. Millwood, Fresno Co., Eastwood. 

 li. ascendent var. jaspcrae Eastw. I.e. pi. 23, fig. 5, type loc. San Emigdio Caiion, Kern Co., 

 Jasper, li. hiticUianuvx Eastw. I.e. 245, pi. 24, figs. 6a, 6b, type loc. Caiion Creek, Trinity Co., 

 Eastwood. K. glauccsccns Eastw. I.e. pi. 24, figs. 7a, 7b. type loc. Mt. Shasta, Eastwood. R. gran- 

 tii Hel. Muhl. 4:27 (19(i8), type loc. Mt. Wilson, Geo. B. Grant 6241. 



5. R. sanguineum Pursh. Blood Currant. Shrub 4 to 9 feet high, the stems 

 slender, erect or spreading; bark brownish, shreddy; foliage sticky when young; 

 loaf-blades roundish-cordate in outline, 3-lobed or with 2 supplementary lobes, 

 rather finely serrate, IVo to 3 inches broad, green above, pale pubescent or tomen- 

 tulose beneath; racemes erect, rather long-peduncled; bracts crimson; flowers 

 blood-red, 6 to 7 lines long; calyx funnelform, its tube shorter than the lobes; 

 petals short-spatulate ; ovary sprinkled with short stipitate glands, otherwise gla- 

 brous, rarely puberulent ; berry blue-black, with bloom, 4 to 5 lines in diameter. 



IMontane, 2000 to 6000 feet : northwestern Lake Co. ; northern Humboldt Co. ; 

 Siskiyou Co. North to British Columbia. Apr.-June. 



Locg. — N. Humboldt Co., on the Klamath Eiver, Goddard 159; Marble Mt., Jepson 2822; 

 Shackelford Creek, Siskiyou Co., Butler 258, 262; Quartz Valley, Siskiyou Co., Butler 671; Pine 

 Mt., nw. Lake Co., Purpus 1041. Elk Lake, B. C, Pineo. The plants at the Joaquin Spr., Mt. 

 Hamilton (^Jepson 4217), are intermediate with the variety glutinosum, having blood-red flowers 

 and perfectly glabrous ovaries but drooping racemes. 



Var. glutinosum Loud. Winter Cuiurant. Similar to the species ; racemes drooping ; flow- 

 ers deep or pale pink. — Common in caiions or on northward slopes near the coast, 50 to 2000 feet: 

 San Luis Obispo Co. to the Berkeley Hills and Mt. Tamalpais and northward to Del Norte Co. 

 Jan. -Apr. The berries when full ripe are soft and bland iDut not at all sweet. At the time of 

 mature fruit the foliage possesses a marked aroma or nutmeg odor. 



Locs. — Arroyo Grande, Brewer 431; Los Gates, Biolettl; Saratoga, Keller; Lake Merced, 

 San Francisco, Jepson; Berkeley, Jepson 9800; Eoss Valley, Marin Co., Jepson 13,500; Olema, 

 Jepson; Inverness, Jepson 502; Seaview, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker; Eureka, Tracy 2948; Law- 

 rence Creek, Humboldt Co., Tracy 6960; Eedwood Creek, Humboldt Co., Jepson 1972; Smith 

 Eiver, Goddard. 



Var. melanocarpum Jepson comb. n. Berries black. — Canons in the low hills about San 

 Francisco Bay: Berkeley, Jepson 9801; Santa Clara Co. ace. Greene. The berries when full ripe 

 are soft and a little sweet. The foliage is without aroma. 



Var. deductum Jepson. Six to 16 feet high; leaves thin; flowers very pale or whitish, few 

 in a mostly loose drooping raceme; berry ripening slowly. — Very dense shade of woods: San 

 Mateo Co.; Berkeley; Eureka. 



Refs. — EiBES SANGXnNEXJM Pursh, Fl. 1:164 (1814), type from the Columbia Eiver, Lewis; 

 Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1349 (1830) ; Douglas, Trans. Hort. Soc. Lend. 7:509, pi. 13 (1830) ; Jepson, 

 Man. 469 (1925). R. scnphami Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, Bot. 2:242, figs, la, lb (1902), 

 type loc. Smith Eiver, J. R. Scupham. Var. glutinosum Loud. Arb. 988 (1838) ; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 273 (1901), ed. 2, 202 (1911), Man. 469, fig. 465 (1925). R. glutinosum Benth. Trans. 

 Hort. Soc. ser. 2, 1:476 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas. Var. melanocarpum Jepson. R. glu- 

 tinosum var. melanocarpum Greene, Man. Eeg. S. F. Bay 124 (1894), "Berkeley and Santa Clara 

 Co." Var. DEDUCTUM Jepson, Man. 469 (1925). R. deductum Greene; Jancz. Mem. Soc. Genfeve 

 35:320 (1907), type loc. Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo Co., C. F. Baker 441. 



6. R. malvaceum Sm. California Black Currant. Stems stout, usually 

 many from the base, forming a strictly erect and compact bush 4 to 6 feet high; 

 leaf-blades shallowly or somewhat deeply 3-lobed, thick, conspicuously rugulose, 

 slightly glandular-scabrous above, more or less white-tomentulose beneath, % to 

 2% inches broad ; racemes drooping ; flowers rose-color, very pale pink, or whitish, 

 4 to 5 lines long ; calyx-tube broadly cylindric, longer than the rotate or spreading 

 lobes ; petals very broad, truncate ; ovary white-hairy and with short gland-tipped 

 hairs ; berry ripening rapidly, glaucous, somewhat hispidulous or hairy. 



