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TWO CALIFORNIAN SPECIES OF RIBES 
By A. A. HELLER 
Ribes Grantii 
A shrub 4 to 6 feet high, the branches wide spreading: old 
bark grey, the younger growth brownish: bud scales persistent, 
oblong, rather large, 1cm. long, 5mm. wide, pinkish: leaves 
orbicular-ovate in outline, cordate at base, 4 or 5cm. long and 
3 or 4cm wide, 3-lobed, irregularly and finely crenate-dentate, 
thin, bright green on both sides, somewhat roughish puberulent 
beneath on the veins, otherwise glabrous; the slender petioles 
somewhat shorter than the blade, densely puberulent and some- 
what glandular; stipular dilation narrow, less than 1 mm. wide, 
about 2mm. long, the edge ciliate and the apex fringed with 
long hairs: peduncles in flower ascending or spreading, appar- 
ently downcurved in fruit, about equaling the subtending leaf, 
rough-puberulent: flowers in dense clusters 2 or 3 cm. long: 
bracts oblong-lanceolate, 4 or 5 mm. long, either pale or pinkish, 
the edges shortly lacerate, slightly exceeding the slender puber- 
ulent pedicels: calyx campanulate, rose color, 5mm. long, the 
tube puberulent and greenish, one-third the length of the lobes, 
these broadly elliptical-ovate, 31mm. wide across the middle, 
beautifully veined, these slightly anastomosing near the edges, 
glabrous: petals white, lined with anastomosing veins, round 
ovate, nearly 3 mm. long and broad, the base truncate or nearly 
so, the short claw 1mm. wide: stamens equaling or a little 
shorter than the petals, the filaments subulate; anthers broad 
and roundish, 1mm. long and nearly as broad: pistil /rather 
stout, as long as the stamens, the apex two-lobed, the lobes 
about 1 mm. long, thick: ovary armed with stalked glands. 
The type, in my herbarium, 1s Geo. B. Grant’s no. 6241, 
collected May 17, 1904, on the north side of Mt. Wilson, Los 
Angeles county, California, elevation about 5500 feet. Mr. 
Grant writes as follows concerning it: 
