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tomentose: ex free from all but base of 

 ova, sep reflexed: pet w, narrowly ellip- 

 tical or a little spatulate below, 1^" 

 long, obtuse at apex: sta 10; fil filiform 

 or flattened: ant'h roundish, dark-r: sty 

 erect and approximate in fl, carpels at 

 length divergent. S. Virsriniensis, Bo- 

 land, Catal. 11; Brew & Wats, bot Cal 

 1:104, not L." Greene, Pittonia 1:283. 

 Torrey cl b 23:3o3. Very common in the 

 central parts of Cal: abundant on Mis- 

 sion Hills; SF; Humboldt Co; SD! 



Abrams, PI LA 190. 



McClatchie. Erythea 2:79. LA Co, 



Parsons, W Fls Cal 16 t. 



GennH RIDES Linnaeus. 



Erect branching- shrubs with alt pal- 

 mately lobed, often resinous-glandular 

 or viscid Ivs: stipules when present act- 

 uate to the potio'e: rt^ racemoso, rarely 

 so-.tary on 1-^-leaved axy shoots; pedi- 

 cels subtended by a bract and usually 

 bearing 2 bractlets at about the middle*: 

 ex-tube adnate to the globose ova and 

 more or less produced above it: pet 5 or 

 rarely 4, erect, mostly smaller than the 

 ex-lobes: sta equaling the pet in number 

 and alt with them: ova 1-celled with 2 

 parietal placentae: sty 2, more or loss 

 united; stig terminal: fr a berry, crown- 

 ed with the withered remains of the fl. 

 BIBES CEBETJM Dougl. 



Dougl bot P.eg t 1263 (1829). 



"This bush is of more humble stature 

 and slender habit than (viscosissirnum), 

 growing erect, about 5 or 6 hi, with w 

 smooth bark on the old branches. The 

 young shoots which are curved an.l flex- 

 ible, are covered with a brown, viscid, 

 scentless, glutinous substance, which, 

 when exposed to the sun, acquires a 

 rough, hardened, waxy, warty, appear- 

 ance. The Ivs are nearly round, blunt- 

 ly 3-lobed, crenate, Fcarcoly 1' long, of a 

 leathery texture, and almost veinless, 

 clothed on the upper surface with w and 

 (in dry weather) hardened waxy min- 

 ute granulations, quite smooth below; 

 footstalks somewhat longer than the 

 Ivs, :-5 or 5-flowered, Bliffatljr pubescent, 

 hanging in grtjit profusion be-ow the 

 branches, with scarcely any partial foot- 

 stalks; bracteas wedge-shaped, glandu- 

 lar and toothed at the apex. The ex is 

 tubular, imperfectly 4-sided, w. pink at 

 the base, ^' long, with rounded, short, 

 reflected seg, double the length of the 

 minute, somewhat kidney-shaped pet: fil 

 same length as the pet; sty slightly 

 Cloven: berry spherical. sm. r and 

 glossy, thin skinned, rarely containing 

 more than 3 large sds, and a great 

 quantity of insipid, viscid, r juice. 



"On dry exposed decayed granite rocks 

 cr schist, throughout the chain of the 

 river Columbia, from the great fa!!s 15- 

 46' 17" N. Lat. to the sources cf that 

 stream in the Rocky mts 52 07' 0)". 

 This is a common ;hrun, fi'ne: in M> md 

 Ap, and ripening its fr in Je." Djug.'as. 

 Hort Soc tr 7:512 (1830). 



"This cpecies. or probably a. eg rotate 

 of pevera 1 species, is wicle'v rfiffuserl. -re- 

 curring throughout the entire Tlo<- cy 

 mountain system, and through 'ho ifl-er- 

 Tn.- '-'f California. rr.-?in2r from ibf-no* 1 

 by v.-ay of the Tehachapi int.* the hi mts 



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of Ventura Co in ths southern Coast 

 Range." Heller, Muhlenbertfia i:71-2. 



Parry, PI Wyo 5. 



H-!l, U 84. 

 RIBES DIVARICATUM I>ougl. 



McClatchie, Erythea 2; 79. LA Co. 



Abrams, Fl LA 193. 



Shrub, 1-2.5 m hi, spreading:, gla- 

 brous, or nearly so, thorns single or 

 sometimes triple; Ivs roundish, 3-5- 

 lobed, the lobes inciaely toothed; pedun- 

 cles slender, elongated, drooping, 3-9- 

 fld; pedicels with broad bract at base; 

 ex g without, purplish within, 5-7 mm 

 long; tube short, campanulate, much ex- 

 ceeded by the oblong lobes; pet w, fan- 

 shaped, margins convolute; filiform fil 

 and sty mucii exsei-ted; berry sm, gla- 

 brous, bk. 



Gray, bot Cal 1:^03. 



Douglas, Ilort Sec tr 7:513, 



Lindley, bot reg t 1359. 



P.ibes villosum Nuttall, in T & G Fl 

 1:547, "a soft downy form," fide Brew- 

 er & Watson. 



S Ber (Parish 694); LA (Davidson); 

 British Columbia. 

 BI3S5 INDECORTTM Eastw. 



"Shrub with erect sts, having dark 

 brown, shreddy bark on the older 

 growth, the younger parts tomentose 

 and glandular: Ivs 3-lobed, 2-4 em long, 

 2-3 cm wide, finely rugose on the upper 

 surface, clothed with stipitate glands, 

 and a fine sparse, silky pubescence; 

 lower surface w with a felt-like tomen- 

 tum, and with a few gland-tipped hairs 

 on the veins; margins irreg, doubly cre- 

 nate; petioles stout, shorter than or 

 equalling the blades, glandular and 

 tomentose. the stipular dilation 'as wide 

 on each side as the petiole) fringed on 

 tue margin with uneven, gland- tipped 

 hair^. Inn 1 racemose, spreading or pend- 

 ent, in fr surpassing the Ivs; fls sessi'e 

 but erect; peduncle-^ short; bracts folia- 

 ceous, almost equalling the fls, laaceD- 

 late. 6 mm long. .' mm wide, with the 

 margins fringed with long, er^and-tip- 

 !,&! hairs. Peduncles stout, gflaTu 1 uter, 

 and tomentooe: fls at ba-e subiendeJ I:y 

 2 membranous, glandular, and tomen- 

 tose bracteoles, ex-tube more than twice 

 as long as the broad, rounded divisions; 

 these tomentose and glandular on both 

 sides, almost 2 mm wide; pet orbicular, 

 reniform. 1 mm wide, crenulate, on very 

 short and broad claws: sta as long as 

 the pet, on stout, short, deltoid fll; anth 

 O.'o mm long, longer than the fil: sty 

 stout, hairy at base, 2-cleft at apex, 

 with broad, y stiar; ova tomentose and 

 somewhat glandular. 



"Collected by the author at Cion 

 He : ghts. near SD, Mr 14, 1891. There 

 1? a 1c ^o a specimen in the H'o Cal ac col- 

 lected by Dr. Gaorge Thurber at Pan 

 Pasijual. SO Co: it is labeled Rifces 

 sa.ngr.ineuna. No. (100. 



"Rihe^ indecortir^ is nearest to Ribes 

 malvaceum. but differs most r.ot!ceT v>1 v 

 in the much smaller and se.?i'e f.s. T'lC 

 fi-^rHl organs, too, are not the same." 

 Fatv"iod, Cal *f* pr, sr 3. bot 2:243. t 

 23. f 3 a, 3 b (1902>. 



Heller, :*luhlenbergia 1:'8-0. 



^-ujiva lae^. ini-, ^.oui Co v^ajtvv JO>J) 



