RIBES. RIBESACE. 209 
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 slender pedicels; calyx saucer-shaped, the oblong 
lobes spreading, yellow dotted with red, 14% lines long; petals broadly 
spatulate, glabrous; 4-14 as long as the calyx-lobes; filaments glabrous, 
equalling the petals, style glabrous, 2-parted: fruit scarlet, 4-5 lines long, 
subpyriform 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, 7-8 inches in diameter, deeply 5-7- 
lohed, 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 broadly 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. Hudsonianum 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 lubes 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. laecustre Poir. Suppl ii, 856. Stems prostrate or ascending, 3-4 
feet long, very prickly when young; subaxillary spines several, weak and 
scarcely ditfering from the prickles: leaves cordate, 3-5-parted, the lobes 
deeply incised and toothed, the teeth bristly apiculate, 6-18 lines long; 
petio!es slender, 1-2 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 molle 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; 
tals small; stamens ve'y short: berries light red, not larger than peas. 
n rocky ridges in the mountains of Southeastern Oregon to California. 
