1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 225 



3. Ribes viscosissimum Pursh., Fl. Am. Sept., p. 163, 1814. 



Type locality. ' ' On the Rocky Mountains in the interior of North 

 America. ' ' 



Range. British Columbia to the southern Sierra Nevada and in 

 the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 



Zone. Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Slide Mountain, "Washoe County, Nevada, 

 7,500 feet, Heller 10936 ; near summit of Mt. Tallac, 9,500 feet, Abrams 

 4830; Grass Lake, Tahoe, McGregor 96; Velma Lakes, Eldorado 

 County, Hudsonian zone, 8,000 feet, Hall 8805; Peregoy's, above 

 Yosemite, A. Gray in 1872; Bridal Veil Creek, Yosemite, 8,000 feet, 

 Bolander 6323; ridge below Nellie Lake, Fresno County, 8,200 feet, 

 Smiley 594; Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, Culbertson (B 4383) ; 

 Kaweah meadows, Tulare County, rocky places at 9-10,000 feet, Pur- 

 pus 1767. 



3a. Ribes viscosissimum Pursh. var. Hallii Jancz., Mem. Soc. 

 Geneve, vol. 35, p. 328. 1907. 



Type locality. "Pres du lac Independence," Sierra County. 



Range. Same as the species. 



Specimens examined. Near Lake Independence, 7,800 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 4533 ; Lake of the Woods, Tahoe, 8,000 feet, Smiley 71 ; 

 summit of Spanish Peak, Plumas County, 7,000 feet, Hall 9287 ; Sum- 

 mit, 7,300 feet, Smiley 448 ; Rubicon Peak, Tahoe, 8,200 feet, Smiley 

 409. 



This variety seems scarcely worth maintaining, its characters of 

 glandless ovary and sepals purple tinted as contrasted with the gland- 

 ular ovary and sepals greenish white of the species are inconstant; 

 Dr. Hall 101 has called attention to a collection from the Yosemite 

 showing specific and varietal characters upon the same branch; 

 another number indicating the purely arbitrary nature of this sep- 

 aration is Baker 1055 from King's Canon, Ormsby County, Nevada; 

 cited by Janczewski as representing var. Hallii with ovary glabrous, 

 the sheet of this number in the Gray Herbarium shows the glandular 

 ovary said to be distinctive of the species. 



