150 SAXIFRAGACEAE 



Rofs. — RiBES BRACTEOSUM Dougl. ; Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. 1:233 (1834), type loc. Columbia 

 River mouth, Scoulcr 4" Douglas; Jcpson, Man. 470 (1925). 



[}. R. viburnifolium Gray. Jslaxd Gooserkrry. Evergreen straggling bush; 

 leaf-blades glabrous, loatliory, oval, rounded at apex or sometimes retuse, entire 

 or sparsely crenate, % to l^o inches long, sprinkled beneath with resin dots; ra- 

 cemes erect; jiediccls iilil'orm, 2 to 5 lines long; calyx rotate, pink, 2^2 to 3 lines 

 wide ; petals minute, V4 as long as the calyx-lobes; stamens very short; berry oval, 

 glabrous, 3 lines long. 



Rocky canons, frequent on moist north slopes : Santa Catalina Island. Also 

 in Lower California. Jan. 



Locs. — Ribes viburnifolium Gray is well-known on Santa Catalina Isl. (Jepson 3055), but 

 has never been reported by Californian collectors from Santa Cruz Isl., which is cited as a station 

 by Janczcwski (Mem. Soc. Geneve 35:341). This is perhaps a slip since he does not cite the 

 former station. 



R«fs. — Ribes viburnifolium Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17:202 (1882), type loc. All Saints 

 Bay, L. Cal., Parry, Pringle, Jones; Trask, Erythea 7:141 (1899); Skan, Bot. Mag. t. 8094 

 (1906); Jepson, Man. 470 (1925). 



10. R. lacustre Poir. Swamp Gooseberry. Stems prostrate or ascending, 

 3 to 4 feet long; spines at the nodes ascending or suberect, mostly 5 to 9, the lateral 

 pair often small, the stems prickly or sometimes naked; leaf -blades nearly or quite 

 glabrous, % to 2i/4 inches broad, deeply and incisely 3 or 5-lobed with mostly open 

 sinuses, the lobes incised and serrate; racemes at first erect, later recurving, 1 to 

 2 inches long, with 7 to 12 greenish flowers on pedicels 2 to 3 lines long; calyx 

 saucer-shaped; stamens about the length of the petals, minute; ovary with scattered 

 gland-tipped prickles, otherwise glabrous; berry black, 2 lines broad, with weak 

 gland-tipped bristles. 



Cold wet mountain meadows, 5000 to 6000 feet: North Coast Ranges from 

 Humboldt Co. to Siskiyou Co. North to Alaska, east to New England. June-July. 



Locs. — Trinity Summit, Jepson 2030; Union Creek, Salmon Mts.; Marble Valley, Marble 

 Mt., BuUer 203. 



Refs. — Ribes lacustre Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 2:850 (1811), type loc. Lake Mistassini, Canada; 

 Hooker, J. D., Bot. Mag. t. 6492 (1880); Jepson, Man. 470 (1925). B. oxyacanthoides var. 

 lacustre Pers. Syn. PI. 1:252 (1805). 



11, R. montigenum McCl. Cloud-cap Gooseberry. Low or straggling, much 

 branched bush 1 to 2 feet high, the stems with 1 to 3 or 4 spines at the nodes, the 

 internodes bristly-prickly or nearly naked; herbage short-pubescent, glandular- 

 sticky; leaf -blades small (4 to 8 lines broad), 3 to 5-parted, the lobes incised; flow- 

 ers reddish-brown ; peduncles short ; racemes 5 to 7-flowered, the pedicels very 

 short, % to 1^3 lines long; calyx greenish, fading pinkish, its tube saucer-shaped, 

 2V2 to 3 lines broad ; petals dull crimson or deep red, fan-shaped, l^ line long ; sta- 

 mens inserted in the sinuses of the glandular 5-lobed disk, very short; ovary hairj', 

 with glandular bristles intermixed; berry light red with weak scattered gland- 

 tipped or rarely glandless bristles or sometimes smooth, 2^2 to 3 lines in diameter, 

 slightl}' acid, palatable. 



Dry slopes on the high mountains, 7500 to 12,500 feet : Sierra Nevada from 

 Tehama Co. to Fresno Co.; south to the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San 

 Jacinto mountains. East to the Rocky Mts., north to British Columbia. July. 



Locs. — Brokeoff Mt., Tehama Co., J. Grinnell; Summit, Nevada Co., Bolander; Tinker Knob, 

 Sonne; Mt. Tallac, Jepson 8135; Carson Pass, Jepson 8114; Sonora Pass, Jepson 6577; White 

 Wolf Mdw., Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 1280; Mt. Lyell, Jepson 3346; McClure Fork Merced 

 River, Jepson 4429e; Echo Creek, Merced River, Jepson 3179; Eagle Mdvr., Yosemite, A. L. 

 Grant 372; Kaiser Peak, A. L. Grant 1012; Nellie Lake, Fresno Co., Newton; Kearsarge Pass, 

 Jepson 858; Harrison Pass, Jepson; Mt. Whitney, Jepson 1096; Mt. Pinos, J. Grinnell 27; Mt. 

 San Antonio, Peirson 73, 685 ; Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2410. 



