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lobes coarsely crenate and the crenature uneven ; apiculate-dentate, gland- 

 ular-ciliate, more or less glandular: racemes erect, usually 10-20-flowered : 

 bracts herbaceous, lanceolate to obovate, 1-3 lines long, equalling or 

 shorter t an the slendar pedicels; calyx saucer-shaped, the oblong 

 lobes spreading, yellow dotted with red, \% lines long; petals broadly 

 spatulate, glabrous; %-% as l n g as the calyx-lobes; filaments glabrous, 

 equalling the petals, style glabrous, 2-parted: "fruit scarlet, 4-5 lines long, 

 subpyriiorin to spherical, glandular. Common on Mount Mazama around 

 Crater Lake, Oregon. 



R. bracteosum Dougl. Hook. Fl i, 233. Stems ascending, 2-8 feet 

 long: leaves long-petioled, cordate, 7-S inches in diameter, deeply 5-7- 

 lobed, the lobes acuminate, coarsely and doubly serrate or incised, resinous 

 dotted beneath : pedicels 6-12 inches long, loosely many flowered; bracts 

 foliaceous, lanceolate to linear, the lower ones broad and petioled the upper 

 reduced and sessile, all as long or longer than the pedicels; calyx rotate, 

 the purplish oblong lobes nearly 2 lines long: petals broadlv cuneiform, 

 rounded at the apex, less than a line long; style shorter than the petals, 

 deeply cleft; fruit black, resinous dotted. Common along mountain 

 streams in deep shade, Alaska to California. 



R. Hndsonianum Richard. Franklin Journ 2 ed. 6. Stems erect, 4- 

 6 feet high ; leaves round-cordate in outline, 2-4 inches in diameter, smooth 

 above, resinous dotted beneath, 3-5-lobed, the k-bes acute, coarsely and 

 doubly serrate : racemes erect, with or without a few small leaves at base, 

 2-4 inches long, many- flowered ; bracts setaceous, much shorter than the 

 pedicels; calyx campanulate deeply 5-parted, the oblong obtuse lobes more 

 than a line long; petals oblong, minute; style glabrous, deeply cleft : fruit 

 globose, resinous dotted. Along mountain streams, Brit. Columbia to 

 Eastern Washington. 



3. GROSSULARIA Tourn. as genus. (GOOSEBERRY). Stems 

 usually armed with subaxillary spines and often prickly : leaves 

 plicate in the bud: peduncles (except in the first) 1-4-flowered : 

 calyx more or less campanulate : ovules very numerous, in sev- 

 eral rows: berries often prickly. 



* Calyx-tube saucer -shaped, spreading immediately above the 

 ovary : peduncles racemously several-flowered : anthers very short, 

 pointless berries small and currant-like, sparingly bristly-glandular. 



R. lacustre Poir. Suppl ii, 856. Stems prostrate or ascending, 3-4 

 feet long, very prickly when young; subaxillary spines several, weak and 

 scarcely differing from the prickles : leaves cordate, 3-5-parted, the lobes 

 deeply incised and toothed, the teeth bristly apiculate, 6-18 lines long; 

 petioles slender, 12 inches long ciliate with long brownish bristles: racemes 

 5-9-flowered; calyx rotate ; stamens about the length of the petals; styles 

 short glabrous, 2-cleft; ovary glandular-hispid; fruit small, black. In 

 cold mountain marshes and along streams, Alaska to California and the 

 Atlantic States and Canada. 



R. molle R. lacustre. var moUe Gray Bot. Cal. i, 206. Stems 1-4 feet 

 high, intricately much branched : young shoots often prickly : subaxillary 

 spines triple or multiple, rigid: leaves round-cordate in outline, 6-12 lines 

 in diameter. 3-5-parted, the divisions 3-lobed and incisely toothed, soft- 

 pubescent and sparingly glandular both sides : racemes 1-9 flowered short- 

 peduncled; bracts ovate, acute, as long as the pedicels; flowers greenish- 

 white, the open calyx three lines in diameter, its short lobes rounded; 

 petals small; stamens veiy short: berries light red, not larger than peas. 

 On rocky ridges in the mountains of Southeastern Oregon to California. 



