80 ERYTHEA. 



2 — 4- (usually 3-) lobed bract, about 3 Imes long; flowers | 

 in. long; calyx-tube oblong-campanulate, 3 lines long, seg- 

 ments purplish-red, reflexed, 4 lines long, tips greenish, 

 especially on back; petals pinkish-white, red-streaked near 

 base on inside, 2 lines long, strongly involute, suborbicular 

 when flattened out, rounded and erose-toothed at summit; 

 pinkish filaments equalling or slightly exceeding the petals; 

 anthers sagittate, ovate-oblong, mucronate, purplish; ovary 

 densely glandular hairy; mature berry ^ — fin. in diameter, 

 densely covered with glandular bristles which produce a very 

 bitter secretion; pulp sweet. — Quite common in shaded 

 canons of San Gabriel Mountains. Collected at various 

 dates daring 1893 and winter of '94; flowering in February 

 and March; fruiting from May to August. 



Ribes nnbigeiiTim, n. sp. Shrub 1 — 2 ft, high with numer- 

 ous rigid spreading branches, armed with strong triple 

 spines below the leafy fascicles, 3 — 5 lines apart; outer bark 

 smooth and light brown on one or two year old branches, but 

 becoming loose and silvery with age; leaves and inflorescence 

 hirsute, some of the hairs bearing glands; leaves i — | in. 

 broad, deeply 5-parted, the lobes incised and toothed; 

 racemes 3— 6-flowered, bracts cordate, acuminate; calyx 

 about J in. broad, its rounded lobes spreading from place of 

 insertion on ovary; petals minute; stamens less than a line 

 long; anthers broader than long, deeply lobed; red berries 

 glandular-hirsute, 2 — 3 lines in diameter, containing 1 — 3 

 large seeds. — Collected Aug. 16, 1893, on summit of Mt. San 

 Antonio, 10,000 ft. altitude, among dry exposed rocks. 



AMERICAN SPECIES OF WULFENIA. 



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By Edward L. Greene, 



This genus was first recognized by Jacquin, and was pub- 

 lished in 1781, the type being a perennial herb of the 

 Carinthian Alps wliich, but for its peculiar habit, would have 



