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RIBES. . CRASSULACEA, 211 
high, variously branched: subaxillary spines 1-3, usually stout and de- 
flexed, leaves roundish, more or less cordate,3-5-lobed, the lobes crenately 
incised; peduncles slender, usually 3-flowered: bracts broad, scarious: 
lobes of the calyx ligulate about twice the length of the campanulate tube: 
stamens exserted; anthers small, oval; style about equalling the stamens 
and calyx, 2-parted, hairy below; fruit small black. Brit. Columbia to 
California. 
++ ++ ++ +» Flowers large and showy. 
R. Lobbii Gray Am. Nat.x,274. Stems 2-6 feet high, much branched, 
subaxillary spines 3, usually unequal: leaves roundish, truncateor slightly 
cordate at base, more or less pubescent and glandular: peduncle almost 
filiform, 1-3-flowered; bracts broad about equalling the short pedicels: 
calyx campanulate, pubescent, the dark red ligulate lobes about equalling 
the tube, twice as long as the white truncate cuneate petals, strongly re- 
flexed; stamens long exserted, slightly unequal; anthers nearly orbicular: 
style about equalling the longest stamens: fruit 6-8 lines in diameter 
scents glandular hispid. Washington to California, west of the Cascade 
ange. 
-R. Marshallii Greene Pitt. i, 31 (?). Stems 2-4 feet high; subaxillary 
spines 3; roundish, 3-5-lobed, crenately toothed, an inch or less in diam- 
eter, smooth not glandular; peduncles short, usually 1-flowered: bracts. 
broadly lanceolate: calyx dark red, campanulate, 8-12 lines long, the 
lanceolate acute lobes much longer than the tube: petals oblong, rounded 
at the summit, 2-3 lines long, yellow: stamens and style exserted but 
shorter than the calyx-lobes; anthers oblong, obtuse at both ends, fruit 
large an inch long or more, covered with fleshy spines but not glandular. 
In forests in the Siskiyou Mouutains. 
+ + Anthers sagittate, mucronate-tipped. 
++ Bracts presistent. 
R. Menziesii Pursh. Fl. 732. Stems 5-10 feet high, branches strongly 
hispid or varying to glabrous: leaves deeply 3-cleft, the lobes coarsely in- 
cised, usually soft-pubescent beneath: pedicels slender, 1-2-flowered; 
bracts broadly ovate, acute; calyx 6-10 lines long, the lanceolate obtuse 
lobes twice as long as the campanulate tube: petals broadly cuneate, 
rounded at the summit; stamens equalling the calyx, anthers lanceolate, 
a line long, style longer than the stamens; ovary densely glandular hispid. 
In the coast ranges, Southern Oregon to California. 
++ 4+ Bracts deciduous. 
R. amictum Greene 1. c. 69. Stems 2-4 feet high, intricately branched: 
subaxillary spines 1-3, slender: leaves orbicular to oblong, less than an 
inch long, 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenately toothed: peduncle short, usually 
one-flowered; bract broadly ovate, longer than the very short pedicel, 
clasping the ovary when young: calyx 6-10 lines long, the lanceolate acute 
lobes but little longer than the narrow tube: fruit densely spinose. On 
dry rocky ridges, southwestern Oregon and adjacent California. 
OrDER XXXIII. CRASSULACEAE D. C. Fl. France. iv, 382. . 
Succulent or fleshy herbs with simple leaves without stipules 
and usually cymose inflorescence. Sepals 4-5, rarely 3-20, 
imbricate in the bud, more or less united at base, persistent. 
Petals as many as sepals and alternate with them, not unguicu- 
late, imbr icate in the bud, inserted on the base of the calyx, 
sometimes united at base. Stamens as many as petals and 
