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as much as five inches in diameter below; the older stems and branches terete; the 
younger joints strongly tuberculated. Spines often an inch long, generally from 15 to 25 
in each fascicle. 
GROSSULARIACEZ. 
253. Ripes trricuum, Dougl. in Hort. Trans. 7. p. 516. Margin of Santa Fé 
Creek ; May. — The specimens are in flower only. The pedicels are short, as in R. 
hirtellum, Michz. (Torr. § Gray, Fl. 1. p. 546), which the plant much resembles; but 
the leaves are rounder and more downy, the campanulate calyx is yellowish-green, with 
no purple tinge, and the spines are triple. The stamens are somewhat longer than the 
petals, but shorter than the oblong calyx-lobes. ‘These are not mentioned in the publish- 
ed character of R. irriguum, Dougl. But I am confident that this is the species in ques- 
tion, as I have the same from the valley of the Kooskooskee, where it appears to abound. 
According to Mr. Spalding, who sends it, it grows by the water-side, and yields “a most 
delicious gooseberry or currant, tasting like a plum.” The same is in Geyer’s collection, 
(No. 330), in flower, under the name of R. triflorum. The fruit scarcely exceeds a large 
currant in size, and is perfectly smooth. — From Mr. Spalding I also have characteristic 
specimens of R. divaricatum, Dougl., which, he remarks, is often twelve feet high, and 
which is likewise said by Geyer to form “a robust shrub or small tree, 8 to 15 feet high, 
very thorny; stems 2 to 4 inches in diameter.” 
254. R. LEPTANTHUM (sp. noy.): glabrum, esetosum ; spinis subaxillaribus solita- 
riis validis rarius geminis ternisve ; foliis parvis (4-6 lin. latis) crebris 5-fidis, lobis 
incisis ; pedunculis brevibus deflexis 1 — 2-floris ; pedicellis subnullis; bracteis rotundatis 
ovario brevioribus ; calyce tubuloso gracili extus piloso albido, lobis subspathulatis tubum 
zequantibus staminibus petalisque integerrimis subduplo longioribus; stylo glabro indivi- 
so; stigmatibus binis; baccis inermibus glabris. — Rocky banks of the Rio del Norte, 
and ravines near Santa Fé; May. — Shrub 3 to 4 feet high. Flower nearly half an inch 
in Jength,— Very distinct from any species in the Flora of North America ; apparently 
resembling the R. microphyllum, H. B. K., of Mexico, which, however, is said to have 
very short peduncles, red flowers, a campanulate calyx, retuse petals, and a 2-cleft 
style. ; 
255. R. cereum, Dougl. 1. c.; Torr. & Gray! Fl.1.p. 551. (R. pumilum & R, 
reniforme, Nuit.! Mss.) Shaded banks of Santa Fé Creek; May, in flower. Shrub 3 
to 4 feet high. ips 
+256. R. sp.; leaves only, of a glutinous species, perhaps merely a form of R. cere- 
um. Rocky hill-sides, near Santa Fé, and on the Mora River. 
