1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 225 



3. Ribes viscosissimum Pursh., Fl. Am. Sept., p. 163, 1814. 



Type locality. — ' ' On the Rocky Mountains in the interior of North 

 America. ' ' 



Ra7ige. — British Columbia to the southern Sierra Nevada and in 

 the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Slide Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada, 

 7,500 feet, Heller 10936 ; near summit of Mt. Tallac, 9,500 feet, Abrams 

 4830 ; Grass Lake, Tahoe, McGregor 96 ; Velma Lakes, Eldorado 

 County, Hudsonian zone, 8,000 feet. Hall 8805; Peregoy's, above 

 Yosemite, A. Gray in 1872; Bridal Veil Creek, Yosemite, 8,000 feet, 

 Bolander 6323; ridge below Nellie Lake, Fresno County, 8,200 feet. 

 Smiley 594; Hockett's meadows, Tulare Count j^, Culbertson (B 4383) ; 

 Kaweah meadows, Tulare County, rocky places at 9-10,000 feet, Pur- 

 pus 1767. 



3a. Ribes viscosissimum Pursh. var, Hallii Jancz., Mem. Soc. 

 Geneve, vol. 35, p. 328. 1907. 



Type locality. — "Pres du lac Independence," Sierra County. 



Range. — Same as the species. 



Specimens examined. — Near Lake Independence, 7,800 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 4533 ; Lake of the Woods, Tahoe, 8,000 feet. Smiley 71 ; 

 summit of Spanish Peak, Plumas County, 7,000 feet, Hall 9287 ; Sum- 

 mit, 7,300 feet. Smiley 448 ; Rubicon Peak, Tahoe, 8,200 feet. Smiley 

 409. 



This variety seems scarcely worth maintaining, its characters of 

 glandless ovary and sepals purple tinted as contrasted with the gland- 

 ular ovary and sepals greenish white of the species are inconstant ; 

 Dr. HalP°^ has called attention to a collection from the Yosemite 

 showing specific and varietal characters upon the same branch ; 

 another number indicating the pureh^ arbitrary nature of this sep- 

 aration is Baker 1055 from King's Canon, Ormsby County, Nevada; 

 cited by Janczewski as representing var. Hallii with ovary glabrous, 

 the sheet of this number in the Gray Herbarium shows the glandular 

 ovary said to be distinctive of the species. 



