Ribes. SAXIFRAGACE.E. 207 



Shady woods, Cottonaby Creek, Meiflocino Co., Bolander. Through the western part of Ore- 

 gon to Sitka. 



9. R. cereum, Dougl. A foot to a yard high, much branched, minutely 

 pubescent, usually resinous-dotted and more or less glutinous, sometimes glabrous : 

 leaves rounded or reniform, obscurely or more decidedly 3-lobed, crenately toothed 

 or incised, half an inch to an inch in diameter, of rather firm texture : racemes 

 drooping, compactly 3 5-flowered : pedicels hardly any or shorter than the bract : 

 calyx waxy-white, sometimes greenish or pinkish ; the tube cylindrical, 4 or 5 lines 

 long, very much longer than the ovate recurved lobes : petals orbicular : berry red- 

 dish, sweetish. Bot. Eeg. t. 1263; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3008. 



Not rare through the drier parts of the Sierra Nevada, from Mt. Pinos (Rothrock) northward, 

 and through the interior to Washington Territory, New Mexico, and Dakotah. A var. pedicellare, 

 from Montana, has slender pedicels longer than the bract. 



* * Calyx prolonged above the ovary into a campanulate or cylindrical tube : fruit 

 and foliage more or less glandular : leaves rounded or with roundish lobes : bracts 

 conspicuous. 



+- Flowers dull white or greenish, or sometimes purplish-tinged: raceme somewhat 



corymb-like and few-flowered. 



10. R. viscosissimum, Pursh. A foot to a yard high, pubescent and viscid- 

 glandular : leaves cordate-rounded and moderately lobed, thinnish, veiny, 1 to 4 

 inches in diameter : racemes ascending : flowers slender-pedicelled, about half an 

 inch long and comparatively broad : calyx-tube at first campanulate ; its lobes ob- 

 long and at least half the length of the tube: berry black. Hook. Fl. i. 234, t. 76. 



AVoods in the Sierra Nevada at 6,000 to 8,000 feet, from Mariposa Co. northward to the British 

 boundary and also in the Rocky Mountains. A form with smooth ovaiy, Sierra Co., Lcmrnon. 



+- +- Floivers rose-red, or varying to white : racemes drooping, mostly many-flowered. 



11. R. sanguineum, Pursh. Shrub 2 to 12 feet high, varying from nearly 

 glabrous to tomentose-canescent, either almost glandless or glandular : leaves 

 rounded-cordate and obtusely 3 5-lobed : racemes dense : calyx-tube above the 

 ovary from campanulate to short-cylindraceous, 2 or 3 lines long, equalling or ex- 

 ceeding the oblong lobes : berry mostly somewhat hispid-glandular, tough and not 

 juicy, blackish, rather bitter. Dougl. in Hort. Trans, vii. t. 13; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1349 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t 3335. Runs into indefinite varieties, such as 



Var. glutinosum, a more glandular and less pubescent form, with large many- 

 flowered racemes.- K. glutinosum, Berith. in Hort. Trans, n. ser. i. 476. 



Var. nialvaceuin, the most tomentose form ; the smaller and contracted ra- 

 cemes, ovaries, and calyx also tomentose-villous ; the latter often flesh-color or white. 

 R. malvaceum, Smith ; Don in Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 340. 



Var. variegatum, Watson. Low, nearly glabrous : racemes short and dense, 

 ascending, barely glandular : calyx-tube broadly campanulate, not longer than the 

 lobes, rose-color with the petals white (as they often are in the typical form), the 

 whole flower only 3 lines long. Bot. King Exp. 100. R. Wolfii, Rothrock in 

 Am. Naturalist, viii. 358, & in Wheeler, Cat. 38. 



Common through the Coast Ranges, on rocks and hills ; the var. glutinosum and var. malva- 

 ceum commoner southward ; the ordinary form extending northward to British Columbia. Var. 

 variegatum in the Sierra Nevada, from Plumas to Placer counties ; also in the mountains of 

 Colorado, Rothrock. 



4. Thornless and prickless : leaves convolute in the bud : racemes several-flowered : 

 calyx-tube elongated : berry naked and glabrous, many-seeded. SIPHOCALYX, 

 Emll. (Chrysobotrya, Spach.) 



1 2. R. aureum, Pursh. Shrub 5 to 1 2 feet high, glabrous or almost so, gland- 

 less : leaves 3 - 5-lobed, rarely at all cordate ; the lobes usually few-toothed or 



