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SA X I FRAGACE.E. Ribes. 



In the Coast Kunges, fiom Monterey to Mendix.ino counties, mostly under HedwooiU. Flowers 

 fragrant. Divisions of the cajisnle only a line lung. 



13. EIBES, Linn. OimitANT. Gooseukuuy. 

 Calyx witli tiil)i) adiialu lo tlio ^lohoso ovary lunl iiiDrc or less oxtciulud beyond 

 it; tho limb o-clcl'L or rarely 4-clei't, and couunoiily colored or petaloid. Petals 

 erect, mostly smaller than the calyx-lobes, inserted in the sinuses. Stamens as 

 many as the petals and alternate with them : anthers commonly very short. Ovary 

 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentiu: styles 2, or more or less united into one: sti^^nias 

 terminal. Berry crowned more or less by tho withered remains of the flower, many- 

 seeded, rarely rather lew-seeded. Seeds with a gelatinous outer and a crustaceous 

 inner coat. Embryo minute in firm albumen. — Siirubs, often resinous-glandular 

 or viscid ; with alternate (often fascicled) palmately veined and lobed leaves ; stip- 

 ules wanting or adnate to the petiole, and peduncles one-flowered or racemosely 

 2 -many-flowered, mostly terminating short and 1 - 2-leaved axillary shoots; pedi- 

 cels subtended by a bract, and usually bearing a pair of bractlets. I'lacentie and 

 styles occasionally 3 or 1. 



A ruther large genus of llm norlhern tini|)erate zone, with a few .s|>ecies (^\tl iiding down tho 

 Andes. North Aniurieu is rich in sjiecies, imd only in Californiii are all tho set:liuns of the genus 

 represonteil. The thorns under the fascicles in the lirst two scclions answer to leaves, as in the 

 Barberry. 



§ 1. Thorn I/: parts of the floiuer more covimonlij 4 : calyx turgid at base; the narrow 

 lubes erect : stamens lonc/exserted : ovules and seeds ratlier feiv : otho'zvise as 

 in the follou'ing section. — IJoBSONiA, IJerlandier. 



1. R. speciosum, I'nrsh. Tall, the trunk sometimes as thick as a man's arm, 

 and attaining G to lU feet in height : branches bristly-prickly and armed with large 

 triple thorns under the fascicles: leaves small, coriacet)Us, nearly evergreen, glabrous 

 or almost so, rouuilish or cuneiform and slightly 3 - S-lobed : flowers 2 to 5 on the 

 bristly-glandular peduncle, drooping, cylindraceous, bright red, almost an inch long 

 and the stamens as much longer : anthers very short : berry dry, densely glandular- 

 bristly. — r.ot. Tteg. t. 1557; Bot. Mag. t. 3530. B. stamtneimi, Smith. 



Woods and ravines, Bay of Monterey to San Diego. Kemarkablo and jjrized in cultivation for 

 its showy Fuchsia-like blossoms. Calyx-lobes erect. 



§ 2. Mostly thorny under the fascicles, and sometimes {but variably) scattered /nickly 

 or bristly along the branches: leaves ]>laited in the bud: peduncle (except in 

 the last) only \ - i-floivered : calyx mostly recurved or rejiexed at Jlowering- 

 time, afterwards erect : berry many-seeded. — Grossularia, A. Richard. 

 {Grossularia, Dill. Gooseberry.) 



* Calyx-tube campamdate to cylindraceous : 2'cduncle 1 -i-fowered. 



+■ Anthers sagittate, mucronate-tipjied : berry prickly, large and ruther dry. 



2. R. Menziesii, Pur.sli. Shrub 2 to G feet high, with naked, glandular-bristly 

 or more prickly l)rauc]ies and stout usually triple thorns under the fascicles : leaves 

 pubescent or sometimes glabrous (from a half to one and a half inches in diameter), 

 roundish or round-cordate, 3 - 5-lobed ; the lol)es crenately toothed and incised: 

 ])eduncles 1 - 2-flowered : calyx about half an inch long, jjurijlish-red ; its obh)ng 

 lobes spreading or ref^urved in anthesis, elongated-oblong, more or less longer than 

 the somewhat funnelform tube, hardly longer than the stamens, which surpass the 

 whitish petals : berry 4 to G lines in diameter, besides the prickh'.s, whicii generally 

 thickly cover it, and are ciLlier short or long, usually straw-colored, sometimes 



