208 RIBESACE. aieiee 
lines long, abruptly inflated adove its union with the ovary, twice as long 
as the oblong lobes: petals oblong, rounded at the summit, about half as 
long as the lobes of the calyx; styles smooth. 2-cleft at the apex .about 
equalling the short included stamens: fruit ovoid, black, viscid-pubescent. 
On mountains, Brit. Columbia to California and the Rocky Mountains. 
R. cereum Dougl. Hort. Trans. vii, 312. A low shrub 2-3 feet high 
with rather stiff branches and whitish bark: leaves roundish-cordate, usu- 
ally broader than long, incisely 3-5-lobed and doubly crenate-toothed 6-9 
lines in diameter. more or less viscid-pubescent and dotted with white 
waxy glands on one or both sides: racemes nodding, 1-5-flowered ; bracts 
ovate to lanceolate, often toothed, appressed to the ovary, 3-4 lines lonz, 
longer than the very short pedicels; calyx tubular, 6 lines long, viscid- 
glandular, the ovate spreading lobes less than a line long; petals minute, 
broadly cuneiform ; stamens inserted on the tube of the calyx and included 
in it; style minutely pubescent above, 2-lobed: fruit bright red, minntely 
glandular... On dry rocky ridges, Brit. Columbia to California and the 
Rocky Mountains. 
+ + Flowers bright red varying to white; racemes drooping, many- 
flowered. 
R. sanguineum Pursh1 c. 164. A stout shrub 3-12 feet high with 
erect branches: young branches and petioles glandular-pubescent: leaves 
cordate, 3-5 lobed, deeply serrate, glabrous above, eanescent-pubescent 
beneath, 1-3 inches in diameter: racemes 1-+¢ inches long, pubescent and 
glandular, rather loosely many-flowered; bracts spatulate to obovate, en- 
tire or erose dentate, 6 lines long, about equalling the slender pedicels; 
calyx-tube cylindrical, 4 lines long, about equalled by the ample obovate or 
broadly lanceolate red lobes; petals oblong, obtuse, narrowed below to a 
broad claw, 2 lines long; style smooth, minutely 2-cleft: fruit subglobose, 
sparingly glandular-hirsute, black with a dense white blaom. Very com- 
mon in wooded districts, Brit. Columbia to California. 
* * Calyx with very short or no tube and rotate or saucer-shaped 
limb. ; 
R. ciliosum. Stems prostrate,2-4 feet long: leaves broadly cordate, 1-2 
inches in. diameter, acutely 3-5-lobed acutely serrate and_ ciliolate, 
minutely pubescent on the veins. beneath smooth above. on petioles about 
as long as the blade with dilated ciliate base: racemes 6-10-flowered ; bracts 
small, ovate, about half as long as the smooth pedicels; calyx dark red, 
saucer-shaped, with broad rounded lobes and very short tube; petals 
broadly obovate, 4 line long; anthers broader. than long, sessile or nearly 
so; style very short, entire: fruit red, about the size of the common red 
currant and much like it in flavor. in marshy ground about the base 
of Mount Hood on the south side. 
R. laxiflorum Pursh Fl. 731. R. acerifolium Howell: R. Howellit 
Greene. Stems cespitose, erect to ascending, 3-9 feet long: leaves triangu- 
lar, 2-3 inches in diameter, truncate or more or less cordate at base, deeply 
5-lobed, the acute lobes laciniately doubly serrate, smooth above, often 
resinous-dotted beneath; petiole as long or longer than the blade, rather 
abruptly dilated and ciliate at base: racemes finely pubescent, 5-12-flow- 
ered; bracts usually linear-lanceolate, 1-2 lines long, about equalling the 
slender pedicels; calyx rotate, with broad spatulate lobes; petals red, 
narrowly spatulate, a line long; anthers broader than long, on flat pedi- 
cels a line or more long; style deeply 2-lobed: fruit purple or black, with 
. a whitish bloom, 2-3 lines in diameter. About springs and_ wet places 
along the coast and in the highest mountains, Alaska to Oregon. 
R. erythrocarpum Covill & Leiberg Proc. Biol. Soc. of Wash. x, 132. 
Stems trailing, rooting and giving rise to ascending branches 4-8 inches 
high: leaves round-cordate, 6-18 lines in diameter deeply 3-loted, the 
