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2. RIBES GRACILLIMUM Coville & Britton, N. Am. Fl. 22: 205. 
1908. 
Type locality: “Stanford University, California.” 
Distribution: Foothills of the Coast Ranges and the Sierra 
Nevada of central California southward to southern California. 
This species has been referred to R. aureum or R. tenuiflorum in 
the California manuals. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Eaton’s Wash, near Sierra Madre, Abrams 
1491; Glendora, Baker 4154. 
3. Rises vipurniFouium A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad.17: 202. 1882. 
Type locality: “Northern part of Lower California near All 
Saints Bay.” 
Distribution: Islands off the coast of southern California, and 
on the mainland from the vicinity of Del Mar, San Diego County 
southward to All Saints Bay, Lower California. Upper and 
Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Santa Catalina Island, Miss Merritt, 
April, 1894; Brandegee, May 12, 1894. 
4. Rrpes cEREUM Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 512. 1830. 
Cerophyllum Douglasiit Spach, Hist. Veg. 6: 153. 1838. 
Ribes balsamiferum Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 94. 1861. 
Type locality: “On the dry exposed granite rocks or schist, 
throughout the chain of the river Columbia from Great Falls, 45° 
46’ 17’ N. Lat. to the source of that stream in the Rocky Moun- 
fins; 62°07’ og!” 
Distribution: Southern British Columbia southward through 
the Rocky Mountains and along the Pacific Coast to the higher 
mountains of southern California. Canadian Zone. 
Specimens examined: Mount Pinos, Elmer 3987; Abrams & 
McGregor 235; North Baldy, San Gabriel Mountains, Abrams & 
McGregor 619; near the summit of Mount San Antonio, Leiberg 
3354; Abrams 1937, 2707; Huston Flat, San Bernardino Moun- 
tains, Shaw €F Illingsworth 106; Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto 
Mountains, Hall 2350; San Jacinto Mountains, Hasse, July 2, 1892. 
5. RIBES NEVADENSE Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 1: 63. 1855. 
Ribes Grantii Heller, Muhlenbergia 4: 27. 1908. 
Type locality: No locality given with the original description, 
