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6. Bibes americanum Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. no. 4. 1768. 

 Ribes Jloridum L'Her. Stirp. Nov. 4. 1785. 



Type locality: Pennsylvania. 



Range: British America to Virginia, Nebraska, Colorado, and northern New 

 Mexico. 



New Mexico: Trout Spring, Gallinas Canyon (Cockerel!). Damp woods. 



7. Ribes woliii Rothr. Amer. Nat. 8: 358. 1874. 



Ribes mogollonicum Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 121. 1881. 



Type locality: "Twin Lakes and Mosquito Pass, Colorado Territory.'' 



Range: Colorado and Utah to New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Wheeler Peak; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Jemez Moun- 

 tains; Sanctis Mountains; Magdalena Mountains; Mogollon Mountains; White Moun- 

 tains. Damp woods, in the Transition and Hudsonian zones. 



This is the more common black currant of the higher part sot' the mountains. It is a 

 shrub, sometimes 3 meters high, with rather large, 5-lobed leases, the lobes broadly 

 ovate, the sinuses not deeply cut, and the margin crenate-serrate, the teeth small; 

 the fruit which is edible but insipid is about 1 cm. in diameter, generally with a 

 bloom. 



The type of Ribes mogollonicum was collected in the Mogollon Mountains by E. L. 

 Greene, in 1881. 



2. GROSSULARIA Mill. Gooseberry. 



Spreading shrubs. with numerous stems armed at the nodes with simple or 3-forked 

 spines; leaves broadly ovate to rotund, rather deeply 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes coarsely 

 crenate; racemes few-flowered; pedicels not jointed beneath the ovary; ovary and 

 fruit spiny, hairy, or smooth; hypanthium evident; fruit not separating from the 

 pedicel. 



KEY to the species. 



Ovary densely bristly, the bristles developing into sharp stout 



spines in fruit 1. G. pinetorum. 



Ovary smooth, not spiny in fruit. 



Styles glabrous; leaves small, 20 mm. in diameter or less, on 

 petioles as long or shorter, crowded; young stems densely 

 spiny, the spines usually stout, often 1 cm. long, diver- 

 gent and curved; flowers copiously ciliate and somewhat 

 glandular outside 2. G. leptantha. 



Styles hairy near the base; leaves larger, mostly more than 20 

 mm. in diameter, on rather slender petioles linger than 

 the blades, Dot so numerous as in the preceding; young 

 Btems mostly smooth, the spines short, often deflexod, (i 

 nun. long or less; Sowers almost glabrous outside 3. G. inermia. 



1. Grossularia pinetorum (Greene) Coville A Britton, N. Amer. VI. 22: 'JI7. 1908. 



Ribes pinetorum Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 157. 1881. 



Type locality: "In woods of Pinus ponderota, in the higher elevations of the 

 Pinoe Altos ami Mogollon Mountains," New Mexico. Type collected by Greene. 



Range: New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Zuni Mountains; San Male,, Peak; Magdalena Mountains; Mogollon 

 Mountains; Black Range; White and Sacramento mountains. Woods in the moun- 

 tains, Trail it ion Zone. 



A 1 urge shrub, often 2 meters high or mure, common in the pine-covered areas of the 

 mountains of the southern half of the State, It may be recognised b) the large and 



