1 74 GROSSULARI ACEAE. 



3-5-flowered; pedicels shorter than the bracts; calyx white or green- 

 ish, the tube cylindric, 8-10 mm. long, much longer than the ovate 

 recurved lobes; petals rounded; berry reddish and sweet. 



A northern species belonging to the Canadian Zone; Mt. San 

 Antonio and the San Bernardino Mountains. 



5. R. nevadense Kell. Rather slender, loosely branching shrub, 

 1-2 m. high, older bark flaky deciduous; leaves 5-10 cm. broad, 

 thin, not rugose, bright green and glabrous above, paler beneath 

 and sparsely pubescent; stipular base of petiole ciliate-margined 

 with long coarse plumose hairs; racemes rather short and dense, 

 on rather long pendulous peduncles; flowers rose-colored; calyx- 

 tube urceolate, 3 mm. long, lobes spreading, about equaling the 

 tube; berry small, globose, glabrous, black. 



Strain's Camp, Mount Wilson. Frequent along streams in the 

 San Antonio and San Bernardino Mountains, in the pine belt. 

 May. 



6. R. malvaceum viridifolium Abrams. Shrub 1-2 m. high, 

 the young branches short-pubescent and more or less densely 

 glandular with stalked glands; leaves rather thick, 3-7 cm. broad, 

 slightly or not at all rugose, minutely scabrous and somewhat 

 glandular with sessile glands above, pale and glandular-pubescent 

 beneath; petioles beset with stalked glands and more or less puberu- 

 lent; inflorescence glandular-pubescent, racemes rather long- 

 peduncled, drooping, many-flowered; bracts ovate, 1 cm. long, 

 ciliate-toothed above; pedicels 3-4 mm. long; calyx rose-colored 

 below, becoming nearly white above, its tube cylindric, pubescent 

 within, 12 mm. long; its lobes broadly ovate, rounded at apex, 4-5 

 mm. long; petals rounded, 2 mm. broad; anthers nearly sessile, 2 mm. 

 long; style pubescent; berries becoming reflexed at maturity, on 

 short pedicels, pubescent and rather sparsely beset with coarse 

 gland-tipped hairs, purplish, 1 cm. long. 



Occasional in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains, 

 on north wooded slopes below 4000 feet altitude. March-April. 



7. R. indecorum Eastw. An erect shrub, 1-2 m. high, with 

 shreddy bark and tomentose and glandular twigs; leaves 2-4 cm. 

 broad, 3-lobed, finely rugose on the upper surface, glandular-pubes- 

 cent and sparsely silky, the lower surface densely white-tomentose; 

 racemes 2-3 cm. long, short-peduncled; flowers on very short pedi- 

 cels; bracts lanceolate, nearly as long as the pale pink or white calyx; 

 calyx-tube 3-4 mm. long, the lobes oval, about half as long; style 

 hairy at base; ovary densely tomentose. 



In the chaparral and along dry washes, from Ventura County 

 to northern Lower California; Arroyo Seco; San Gabriel Wash; 

 Claremont. 



2. GROSSULARIA Mill. Gooseberry. 



Shrubs armed with simple or 3-forked nodal spines 

 or rarely spineless. Racemes few-flowered, the flowers 

 bracteate; pedicels not jointed without bractlets or 

 these minute and at the base of the pedicel. Ovary 

 often spiny. Fruit not disarticulating from the pedicel. 



