158 SAXIFRAQACEAE 



■Rots. — RiBES VICTORIS Greene, Pitt. 1:224 (1888), type loc. Lake Lagunitas, Mt. Tamalpals, 

 rirtor K. Chcsnut (typ. vidi) ; Jopson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 273 (1901), ed. 2, 202 (1911), Man. 474 

 (1925), in small part". Var. gkkenkianum Jepson, Man. 474 (1925). R. greeneianum Ilel. Muhl. 

 1:111 (1905), type loc. Vaca Mts., C. F. Baker 2915. Grossularia grccnciana Gov. & Britt. N. Am. 

 Fl. 22:212 (1908). h'. vicioris Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 273 (1901), cd. 2, 202 (1911), mainly. 

 H. vtcn:iesii var. mitiiis Jancz. Mem. Soc. Geudve 35:363 (1907), type loc. Middleton grade, Mt. 

 St. Helena, Jepson 13,507 (a form of the dry hills), (typ. vidi). H. victoris var. minus Jepson, 

 Man. 474 (1925). 



22. R. sericeum Eastw. Lucia Gooseberry. Erect branching shrub "several 

 feet hip:li", the stems very prickly, the prickles bristle-like; herbage with a short- 

 pilose whitish pubescence; leaf-blades thinnish, deeply 3 (or 5) -cleft; raceme 

 (1 or) 2-flowered, on peduncles % to VA inches long; peduncles slender, white- 

 pilose and bristly with gland-tipped bristles; flowers 9 to 11 lines long; sepals red, 

 sparingly villous ; petals rather less than half as long as the stamens ; anthers drab 

 or tan-color, not apiculate; ovary densely covered with gland-tipped spines and 

 intervening white hairs; berries often large (8 to 11 lines in diameter), spiny. 



Caiions, 5 to 1000 feet: Santa Lucia Mts., mostly along the coast. Feb.-Mar. 



Geog. note. — It seems likely that wherever Eibes sericeum occurs, it replaces R. meuziesii. 

 Our former student, Stephen N. Wyckoff, says that Ribes menziesii var. hystrix stops a few miles 

 south of Monterey on the Santa Lucia coast, and that Ribes sericeum begins with equal abruptness 

 and continues southward some distance. 



Locs. — Bixby Creek, Wychoff 99; Little Sur, Davy 7378; Big Creek, K. Brandegee; Gorda, 

 PlasTcett; Santa Margarita, Berg. 



Refs.— Ribes sericeum Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, Bot. 2:246, pi. 24, figs. 9a-9f (1902), 

 type loc. Gorda, Santa Lucia Mts., Plaskett (typ. vidi) ; Jepson, Man. 475 (1925). 



23. R. marshallii Greene. Hupa Gooseberry. Low, spreading, sometimes 

 forming almost mat-like colonies 3 to 7 feet across; flowers similar to those of 

 R. lobbii; calyx-tube bowl-shaped, as broad or broader than high; calyx-lobes crim- 

 son, 2 lines broad, 6 to 7 lines long; petals yellow; anthers glandless; ovary white- 

 woolly, with non-glandular spines imbedded in the tomentum; berry subglobose, 

 6 to 7 lines in diameter, covered with long (2 to 3 lines) glandless spines. 



High montane, 6000 to 7000 feet : Humboldt and Siskiyou Cos. July. 



Locs, — Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4189; Trinity Summit, Manning; Shackelford Canon, 

 w. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 2819. 



Refs. — Ribes marshallii Greene, West Am. Sci. 3:24 (1887), type loc. Trinity Summit, 

 C. C. Marshall (typ. vidi), Pitt. 1:31 (1887) ; Jepson, Man. 475 (1925). 



24. R. lobbii Gray. Oregon Gooseberry. Bush 2 to 3 feet high ; herbage spar- 

 ingly glandular-pubescent ; spines at nodes 3 ; leaf-blades % to 1^/4 inches broad, 

 3-lobed and serrate, sparsely hispidulose; peduncles 1 to 3-flowered; flowers pen- 

 dulous, 10 to 11 lines long; calyx crimson or Turkish red, sparingly hairy outside, 

 its tube cylindric, longer than broad ; calyx-lobes long-oblong, somewhat spreading 

 or recurved-coiling, longer than the tube ; petals involute, white ; stamens and style 

 much exserted; anthers with minute wart-like glands on the back; ovary densely 

 covered with stipitate glands as if tessellated, half -sheathed or closely subtended 

 by a truncate bract; berry oval, 6 to 8 lines long, densely covered with short gland- 

 tipped spines. 



High montane, 5500 to 6500 feet : northern Lake Co. to Siskiyou Co. North 

 to British Columbia. June. 



Locs. — Snow Mt., T. Brandegee; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4189; Trinity Summit, 

 Jepson 2038, 2044; Salmon Summit, Jepson 2093; Cold Spring Camp, Woolly Creek, Butler 261; 

 Jackson Lake, Siskiyou Co., Alexander 4" Kellogg; Humbug Creek, Siskiyou Co., Butler 265, 1442. 

 Ashland, Ore., Eowell. 



Refs. — Ribes lobbii Gray, Am. Nat. 10:274 (1876), type loc. Vancouver Island, Wood; 

 Jepson, Man. 475 (1925). B. subvestitum Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4931 (1856), not H. & A. 



25. R. binominatum Hel. Ground Gooseberry. Stems trailing, not bristly, 

 2 to 4 feet long ; nodal spines 3, unequal ; leaf -blades 3 to 5-cleft, % to l^/^ inches 



