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base, pubescent and glandular on the lower part, glabrous on the upper. 

 Leaves thin, three- to five-lobed, broadly ovate-orbicular, reniform or trun- 

 cate at base, 2-4 cm. long, not quite so wide, incised-crenate, clothed with 

 fine, white, silky hairs which are appressed or spreading, also with fine 

 gland-tipped hairs; petioles about as long as the blades, more glandular and 

 more spreading-pilose, dilated only at the very base, and without the appear- 

 ance of stipules. Peduncles one- to three-flowered, slender, erect, with 

 pubescence like the petioles; pedicels about half as long; bracts orbicular or 

 three-lobed, foliaceous; bractlets similar but smaller. Flowers 2 cm. long, 

 open-campanulate in the bud. Calyx with the divisions at length reflexed, 

 longer than the tube and the ovary, oblong, purplish red, greenish near the 

 apex, softly silky villous on both sides; tube campanulate, veined, slightly 

 glandular at base. Petals white, 5 mm. long, involute, erose along the almost 

 truncate apex. Stamens with filiform, purple filaments, exserted beyond the 

 sepals in the opening flower, and also beyond the pistil; anthers narrowly 

 linear-oblong, almost 2 mm. long, obtuse. Pistil two-cleft for 2 mm. Ovary 

 densely clothed with horizontally spreading fine, silky hairs mixed with some 

 longer, glandular hairs, the glands purple. Fruit purple, clothed with short, 

 weak bristles and scattered hairs. Some of the bristles retain the purple 

 glands on the fruit. 



Collected in flower by Mr. R. A. Plaskett, at Spruce 

 Creek; also at Gorda, in flower and fruit. Collected by 

 the author at Pacific Valley, with immature fruit. R. seri- 

 ccum flowers in December and January and fruits in June. 

 At Point Sur specimens were collected by the author in 

 June, 1893, with very large, pear-shaped fruit, almost 4 cm. 

 long, and specimens with globular fruit were collected at 

 aboiit the same time at Slate's Hot Springs. All these 

 localities are on the coast of Monterey County, California, 

 at the base of the Santa Lucia Mountains, and the range 

 extends from south of Point Gorda to north of Point Sur. 



Ribes sericeum is related to R. subvestitum Hook & Arn. 

 but it has different leaves, different pubescence, and the 

 floral organs are not the same. 



8rtr. Ribes sericeum viridescens, var. nov. The variety 

 is similar to the type, but the flowers are smaller and green- 

 ish, the leaves are more densely clothed with silky white 

 hairs, and are more orbicular-reniform. The peduncles in 

 the specimens examined all have single flowers. 



This variety was collected by R. A. Plaskett at Gorda, 

 Monterey County, California, January, 1898. 



