_'!_> GROSSULARIACEAE (GOOSEBERRY FAMILY) 



erally numerous: leaves slender-petioled, rather densely pubescent or puberu- 

 Icnt, 2-3 cm. broad, 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenately incised or coarsely toothed: 

 ealvx-tube cylindrical, longer than the oblong lobes: stamens not exserted: 

 berry sparingly bristly or rarely glabrous, pleasantly acid. Wyoming and 

 Montana to the Saskatchewan. 



3. Ribes leptanthum Gray, PI. Fendl. 53. 1848. Freely branched and 

 rigid, only moderately leafy, 4-12 dm. high: spines long, rather slender, 

 usually single (rarely triple): leaves roundish, small, 8-12 mm. broad, cre- 

 nately incised or toothed: peduncles very short, 1-2-flowered : flowers yellow 

 or yellowish: anthers oblong: berry smooth. Southern Colorado, southward 

 and westward. 



3a. Ribes leptanthum brachyanthum Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 205. 1876. Very 

 leafy, finely and densely puberulent: calyx shorter: berry densely glandular. 

 (R. brachyanthum Card., Bush Fruits 460. 1898.) Coming into our range 

 from the westward. 



4. Ribes saximontanum E. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 30: 118. 1900. The spreading 

 stems 3-8 dm. long, more or less bristly; spines triple, stout, 8-12 mm. long: 

 leaves suborbicular, finely-pubescent or glabrate, 6-20 mm. broad, deeply 

 3-lobed and each lobe bilobed: flowers 1-3, about 1 cm. long, white tinged with 

 violet: calyx-tube cylindrical, villous within, longer than the oblong lobes: 

 stamens included: style villous, divided halfway to the base: berry smooth, 

 reddish-purple. Colorado to Montana. 



5. Ribes lentum (Jones) Coville and Rose, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 15: 26. 

 1902. Freely branched, 3-6 dm. high, bristly-prickly or almost naked: spines 

 short-triple or multiple: leaves finely-pubescent, suborbicular, 2-3 cm. broad, 

 5-parted and the lobes incisely cleft or toothed: racemes 5-9-fl owered ; flowers 

 greenish-white: calyx-tube short, with short rounded leaves: petals and 

 stamens very short: berry light red, medium size, well-flavored, smooth or 

 more usually lightly glandular-bristly. Subalpine; in the Rocky Mountains 

 and the Sierras. 



6. Ribes parvulum (Gray) Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Card. 1: 203. 1900. 

 Stems procumbent, mostly less than 1 m. high; spines weak, slender, some- 

 times wanting; the branches often very hispid-bristly: leaves suborbicular, 

 3-5-parted or lobed, cordate at base, nearly glabrous, 2-4 cm. long: flowers 

 in 5-12-flowered racemes: berry small and currant-like, nearly black when 

 ripe, covered with short weak gland-tipped bristles. R. lacustre parvulum. 

 Very near to R. lacustre (Pers.) Poir, a species of the cold bogs to the northward 

 and eastward of our range. R. echinatum Lindl. is a form of R. lacustre with 

 less dissected and somewhat pubescent leaves. It occurs in dryer situations, 

 mostly on wooded hillsides; in our range northwestward. 



7. Ribes coloradense Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 14: 3. 1901. Stems 

 procumbent, unarmed, with brown bark; the twigs pubescent and glandular: 

 leaves cordate-reniform, 4-7 cm. broad, 5-lobed, nearly glabrous but with 

 minute sessile glands; the lobes ovate-triangular: racemes 6-12-flowered, the 

 pedicels and rachis glandular and minutely pubescent: calyx-lobes spread- 

 ing, ovate, obtuse; the tube short, salverform, glandular-pubescent: petals 

 short, broad, purplish: fruit spherical, sparingly glandular-hairy, black, with 

 bloom. R. prostratum. Mountains of Colorado. 



S. Ribes Wolfii Rothrock, Am. Nat. 8: 358. 1874. Unarmed shrub, 5-12 

 dm. high, glandular-pubescent on the young branches, petioles, and pedicels: 

 ornate-orbicular, thickish, 4-8 cm. broad, smooth above, paler and 

 sparsely glandular-pubescent beneath: raceme 4-10-flowered ; the flowers 

 yellowish-white, varying to red: calyx-lobes spatulate, not reflexed: petals 

 red. half as long us the sepals: young berry glandular-hairy, smoother with 

 a^e. /{. sanguineum variegatum. Wyoming to New Mexico, Utah, and Ari- 

 xona. 



<). Ribes viscosissimumPursh,Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 163. 1814. A shrub 8-1 f>d in. 

 hitfli with reddish shreddy bark and stiffish branches; young branches, leaves, 

 and inflorescence \ i^- id-pubescent: leaves round-cordate, shallowly :Mobed. 

 inciaely crenate, 3-5 cm. in diameter: racemes short; bracts spatulate, 12-16 



