GROSSULARIACEAE. 1 75 



Flowers 5-merous. 



Berry armed with prickles. 



Herbage glandular-pubescent. 1. G. amara. 



Herbage not glandular-pubescent. 



Leaves shiny, minutely and sparsely 

 pubescent; calyx-lobes twice the length 

 of the tube. _ 2. G. hesperia. 



Leaves canescent; calyx-lobes equaling 



the tube. 3. G. roezli. 



Berry without prickles, glabrous or pubescent. 4. G. parishii. 

 Flowers 4-merous, bright red and showy. 5. G. speciosa. 



\. G. amara (McClatchie) Coville & Britton. Shrub, 1-3 m. 

 high, the rigid stems and branches beset with yellow-brown com- 

 monly triple spines, often hispid; leaves, inflorescence and young 

 branches glandular-hirsute; leaves thin, 1-4 cm. broad, 3-5-lobed 

 and incised; peduncles 1-2-flowered; bracts round-ovate, usually 

 3-lobed, 6 mm. long; calyx-tube oblong-campanulate, 6 mm. long; 

 lobes reflexed, 6 mm. long, purplish red; petals pinkish white, 

 rounded, erose-toothed at summit; stamens equaling or slightly 

 exceeding the petals; anthers sagittate, mucronate, purplish; berry 

 12-20 mm. broad, densely covered with glandular bristles. _ 



Frequent on shaded slopes in the San Gabriel Mountains below 

 4000 feet altitude. February-March. 



2. G. hesperia (McClatchie) Coville & Britton. Shrub, 1.5-3 

 m. high, with spreading branches; stems smooth, beset with dark- 

 colored commonly single spines; inflorescence and young branches 

 puberulent; leaves thin, 12-20 mm. broad, 3-5-lobed, the lobes 

 incised; peduncles 1-2-flowered; bracts broad, fan-shaped with 

 ciliated membranous pink margins; calyx-tube campanulate, slightly 

 inflated, about 2 mm. long, lobes greenish-red, 6-8 mm. long, petals 

 cuneate-oblong, 3-4 mm. long, 2-3-toothed at summit or entire; 

 filaments 4-6 mm. long; anthers mucronate, greenish; berry 12-20 

 mm. in diameter, densely beset with rather long spines. 



Common in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains below 

 3000 feet altitude. January-February. 



3. G. roezli (Kegel) Coville & Britton. Shrub, 10--15 dm. high 

 with pubescent but not bristly branches, the nodal spines straight 

 or recurved, brownish, 1.5 cm. long; leaves 15-25 mm. broad, reni- 

 form-rounded in outline, 3-5-lobed and incisely dentate-crenate, 

 finely pubescent on both sides; peduncles 1-3-flowered; ovary usually 

 white-hairy, bristly; calyx-tube 5-7 mm. long, purplish, pubescent, 

 the lobes lanceolate, 7-10 mm. long. 



Southern Sierra Nevada southward to the San Bernardino 

 Mountains; North Baldy; Mt. San Antonio, and Santiago Peak, 

 Santa Ana Mountains. 



4. R. parishii Heller. Shrub, 1-2.5 m. high, spreading, branches 

 tomentose, thorns single or sometimes triple; leaves roundish, 3-5- 

 lobed, the lobes incisely toothed, sparsely tomentose; peduncles 

 slender, elongated, drooping, 3-9-flowered; pedicels with broad 

 bract at base; calyx purplish, 6-8 mm. long; tube short, campanulate, 



