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Refs. — RiBES MONTiGENTJM MeCl. Erythea 5:38 (1897) ; Jepson, Man. 470, fig. 466 (1925). 

 B. nubigenum McCl. Erythea 2:80 (1894), type loc. Mt. San Antonio, McClatchie ; not R. nubi- 

 genum Philippi (1856). R. lacustre var. molle Gray, Bot. Cal. 1:206 (1876), type from the n. 

 Sierra Nevada. E. molle Howell, Fl. Nw. Am. 209 (1898). E. lacustre var. lentum Jones, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 5:681 (1895), type loc. Bromide Pass, Henry Mts., Utah, Jones. B. lentum 

 Gov. & Rose, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 15:28 (1902). 



12. R. divaricatum Dougl. Straggle Bush. Shrub 4 to 6 feet high, with 

 very long straggling branches ; bark whitish or dull gray ; herbage glandular when 

 young; spines at the nodes 1, sometimes 3; leaf -blades green and minutely pubes- 

 cent above, pubescent or puberulent and usually pale beneath, % to 1^ (or 2^/4 ) 

 inches broad, 3 to 5-cleft, truncate or subcordate at base, rarely rounded; racemes 

 drooping, loosely 3 to 5-flowered, sometimes 2 or 6-flowered; pedicels 3 to 4 lines 

 long, with a small roundish bract at base; flowers 2i/^ to 4 lines long; calyx charac- 

 teristically pilose, its tube I/2 to l^^ lines long, its lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, 

 green without, dull purple within, longer than the bowl-shaped tube; petals white, 

 fan-shaped, plane, % to 1 line long; stamens and style exserted, the latter deeply 

 cleft, densely long-villous at the middle; ovary and berry glabrous and spineless; 

 berry subglobose, 2V2 to 314 lines in diameter. 



Shaded caiion bottoms and flats, 20 to 2000 feet : Coast Ranges from Humboldt 

 Co. to Ventura Co. North to British Columbia. Apr. 



Tax. note. — While in California plants the calyx is thinly hairy, in British Columbia and 

 Washington, on the other hand, the calyx is usually glabrous. This glabrous form rarely re- 

 appears in California, as at Samoa near Eureka (Tracy 1027). 



Locs. — Blue Slide, Van Duzen River, Humboldt Co., Tracy 6943; Potter Valley, Mendocino 

 Co., Purpus 911; Cobb, Lake Co., M. S. Baker 2322a; Lower Lake, Lake Co., Chandler; Forest- 

 ville, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 21; Olcma, Marin Co., Jepson 4035; Berkeley, Jepson 9598; La- 

 fayette, Contra Costa Co., Davy 997; Coyote Hills, Alameda Co., Bioletti; Carmel River, Monterey 

 Co., Heller 6523; Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo Co., Alice King; Carpinteria, Ventura Co., 

 Brewer 252 (intergrade to var. parishii Jepson). 



Var. parishii Jepson comb. n. Branchlets covered with a close dense felt; leaves pubescent, 

 silky on the under side when young; calyx reddish, 3^4 to 5 lines long; petals red. — ^Wet places, 

 San Bernardino Valley. Apr. 



Refs. — RiBES DIVARICATUM Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7:515 (1830), type loc. "Northwest 

 Coast", 45° to 52° n. lat., Douglas; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1359 (1830) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 273 

 (1901), ed. 2, 202 (1911) ; Man. 471, fig. 467 (1925). E. villosum Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. 1:547 

 (1840), type loc. Santa Barbara, Nuttall. E. divaricatum var. montanum Jancz. Mem. Soc. 

 Geneve 35:391 (1907), type loc. Snow Mt.; flowers glabrous (ex char.). Var. parishii Jepson. 

 E. parishii Hel. Muhl. 1:134 (1904), type loc. Warm Creek, San Bernardino Valley, S. B. # W. F. 

 Parish. Grossularia parishii Cov. & Britt. N. Am. Fl. 22:224 (1908). The var. amictum Jepson, 

 Man. 471 (1925), lapsus calamus typographicus, due to inadvertent transfer of matter, is false 

 and meaningless. 



13. R. inerme Rydb. "White Gooseberry. Stems slender, often simple, 2 to 

 5 feet high, prickles none, or rarely a few ; bark whitish ; spines at nodes 1 to 3, 

 short (1 to 2 lines long) or none; leaf-blades quite glabrous or sparingly pubes- 

 cent especially beneath, 1 to 2 inches broad, subcordate, 5-cleft, the lobes incisely 

 toothed; petioles usually with a few scattered bristles; flowers 1 to 3, nodding, 

 gi-eenish or purplish, 3 lines long ; calyx characteristically glabrous, its tube about 

 as long as the lobes; stamens twice as long as the minute petals; style villous be- 

 low the middle; ovary glabrous; berry smooth, glabrous, dark purple, 4 lines in 

 diameter. 



Mountains, 3500 to 10,600 feet : Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Modoc Co.; 

 eastern Mendocino Co. to Siskiyou Co. East to the Rocky Mts. and north to 

 British America. May. 



Locs. — Mineral King, Tulare Co., Jepson 1027; Heart Lake, nw. Inyo Co., ace. Peirson; 

 Kennedy Mdws., upper Stanislaus River, Jepson 6543; Bloody Canon, Mono Co., Chesnut 4" 

 Drew; Deer Park, Placer Co., Helen Gevi 50; Little Truckee River, S. B. Doten 51; Pine Creek, 



