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bracts ate broad and obtuse, with a green wedge-shaped spot 
near the apex. The calyx is 6mm. long, its tube 3mm. long 
thus equaling the lobes, these oblong, 2 mm. wide, veined, as are 
also the petals. Petals white, oblong, slightly narrowed at apex 
and base, with practically no claw. Stamens a little shorter 
than the petals, the stoutish filaments barely exceeding in length 
the oblong, blunt anthers, which are fully 1mm. long.  Pistil 
stoutish, equaling the petals, the two thick lobes divaricate. 
The ovary is glandular. 
Whether there is any typical R. xevadense in eastern her- 
baria I do not know, but 2. Graniz7 is certainly distinct enough 
from the typical plant. 
Ribes purpurascens 
Shrub about 4 feet high, the several branches slender: bark 
on the lower part of the stem probably greyish, brownish above: 
leaf rather thin but firm, the blade broadly ovate in outline, the 
largest 4 or 5cm. long and as broad, 3-lobed, the lobes about 
2cm. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, shallowly and irregularly 
several lobed, these irregularly serrulate, dull green and pustular 
dotted above and with some very short hairs, especially near the 
margins, paler and shortly tomentose beneath, the pale veins 
conspicuous, slightly cordate at base or almost truncate; the pet- 
iole a little more than half the length of the blade, short-woolly 
and somewhat glandular; stipular dilation 4 or 5 mm. long, 
I mm. wide. somewhat woolly, the edges ciliate, the apex fringed 
with long hairs: flowering clusters apparently somewhat de- 
clined, 6 or 7cm. long, the glandular peduncles nearly as long 
as the inflorescence: flowers rather loosely racemose: bracts 
lanceolate, acuminate, 5 or 6inm. long, about 1.5mm. wide, 
purplish, shortly pubescent, the margins with stalked glands: 
pedicels at first very short, but occasionally as much as 5 min. 
long, glandular and tomentose: calyx or hypanthium cylindri- 
cal, narrow, the tube 5mm. long, 2 mm. across, purplish, short- 
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pubescent and somewhat glandular on the outside, short-pubes- 
