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completely hidden. ‘The lower lip is situated at about the mid- 
dle of the corolla, and is composed of three short, rounded teeth, 
the middle one twice the length of the lateral ones and only 
half as wide, somewhat spoon-shaped. An inhabitant of clayey 
banks in and about thickets or in open woods. While it may 
be fairly plentiful at any given place, the localities are scattered. 
It occurs above our place, and I have heard of another station 
near Saratoga. To my personal knowledge it is found as far 
north as Sonoma county. 
; RIBES SUKSDORFII.—In a recent letter from Mr. Suksdorf 
he confirms my supposition concerning the place where the type 
was collected. He writes as follows: ‘The specimens you re- 
ceived from me wete collected right here at Bingen, on the 17th 
of April, 1897. It may be well to state here that I am at the 
same place where I have collected for so many years, our post 
office being first at White Salmon. Later the people took the 
post office away from the river, a few miles further back and 
higher up on the bluff. Then the post office of Bingen was 
established here, twelve years ago or more. In a specimen col- 
lected in fruit in 1883, there are two spines at one place and 
three at another, and a few spines are longer than usual. I 
have a few 4-flowered racemes, and in one specimen they are 
mostly 2-flowered. However, these things all seem to be excep- 
tions, yet they show that some variation is to be expected in 
both species. I have noticed many times that there is some 
variation in the color and size of the calyx. I hope it may 
prove to be very distinct from R. divaricainm, of which I have 
only two small fragments, collected below Vancouver, not 
enough to be of much value for comparison, but the flowers and 
leaves are different,” 
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