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nearly an inch broad, prominently lined at the base, scarcely 
pubescent, decurrent into the stem on both sides. Flowers ses- 
sile, small. Calyx lobes lanceolate, provided with a mid-nerve, 
veined, the margin pubescent. Petals obovate, scarcely longer 
than the calyx lobes, one-third of the limb bifid; lobes obtuse; 
about 2 lines long, over a line broad. Stamens shorter than the 
petals. Style simple, stigma undivided, clavate. Ovary pubes- 
cent just as the capsule. 
Differs from the preceding [Z. roseum] to which it is re- 
lated: leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate (not oblong, attenuate in- 
to the petiole); petals scarcely exceeding the calyx (not much 
, longer). 
From &. montanum it differs: leaves ovate-lanceolate (not 
lanceolate); petals sub-equaling the calyx (not longer); pistil 
simple (not 4-lobed). 
RIBES BRACTEOSUM Douglas mspt. 138. Leaves cordate, 
5-7-lobed, coarsely biserrate, somewhat pilose, racemes very long, 
lax, puberulent, bracts linear, the length of the pedicels. 
Branches unarmed, the older ones cinereous. Leaves scat- 
tered, long petioled, 5-7-lobed, cordate at base; lobes ovate-lan- 
ceolate, coarsely biserrate; scattered, clothed with short white 
appressed hairs on both sides, 2-3 inches long and broad.  Peti- 
oles 2-4 inches, channeled above, little dilated at base, and pro- 
vided with several rigid plumose bristles, the other hairs very 
short, white, puberulent. Racemes axillary, simple, very long, 
ineasuring 6-9 inches, erect, bearing about 50 flowers. Pedicels 
4.6 lines long, puberulent, the linear bracts at the base scarcely 
longer, subpnbescent with white hairs. Petals subovate, thrice 
longer than the stamens. Ovary ovate. 
Specimens of this species, collected by Douglas on the coast 
of western North America, and preserved in the herbarium of 
Prescott, agree exactly with ours from Sitka. 
RIBES AFFINE Douglas mspt. 138. Leaves 5-lobed, coarsely 
sub-biserrate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath on the nerves 
