/^'^''•'••- SAXIFK'AGACE/E. 207 



^''"''^..yo^l^' ^'"ttonaby Cieck, Men.locino Co., lluhmd,:,: Tl.n.n-1, tlie western i.art ol' Ore- 

 Ron to hitkft. . o 1 u 



9. R. cereum, Bougl. A foot to a yard high, mucli branclied, minutely 

 pubescent, usually resmous-dotted and more or less glutinous, sometimes -dabrous • 

 loaves rounded or reniforni, obscurely or more decidedly 3dobed, crenately toothed 

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

 drooping, compactly 3 - 5-llowcred : 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. — ]5ot. iJog. t. 12G3; Hook. Hot. J\Iag. t. 3008. 



Not rare through tlie drier parts of the Sierra Nevada, from Mt. Finos {llothrock) northward 

 and tlirongh the ulterior to Wasiiington Tenitory, New Me.xieo, and Dakotah. A var. pcdicellare 

 trom Alontana, has slender pedicels longer than the bract. ' 



>!= * Gah/x prolonged above the ovary into a campanulale or ci/findrical tube : fruit 

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

 conspicuous. 



-<- Flowers dull ivhite or greenish, or sometimes purplish-tinged : raceme somewhat 

 corgmh-like and feiihjhu'ered. 



10. R. viscosissimum, I'ursli. 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 lirst campanulate ; its lobes ob- 

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



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

 boundary and also in the Kocky Mountains. A form with smooth ovary, Sierra Co., Lemmon. 



-(- -J- Ftou'ers rose-red, or varying to white : racemes drooping, mostly many-floioered. 



11. R. sanguineum, Pursh. Shrub 2 to 12 feet liigli, 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, blackisli, rather bitter. — Dougl. in Hort. Tnins. vii. t. 13; Lindh IJot. Reg. 

 t. 131<J ; Hook. J5ot. Mag. t 3335. — Uuus into indelinito varieties, sucli as 



Viir. glutinosum, a more glandular and less pubivscent form, with lurgo many- 

 llowcMcd rac(>.mes. — R. glutinosum, l5enth. in flort. Trans, n. ser. i. 47G. 



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

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

 — It. malvaceum, Smith ; Don in Brit. Fl. Card. ser. 2, t. 340. 



Var. variegatum, Watson. Low, nearly glalirous : 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 

 Avhole flower only 3 lines long. — ]]ot. King Exp. 100. R. Woliii, Rothrock in 

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



Common througli the Coast Ganges, on rocks and hills ; tlie var. ghdinosHin and var. malva- 

 ceum commoner southward ; the ordinary form extending northward to r>ritisli Columbia. Var. 

 varwiatnm in the Sierra Nevada, from IMumas to Placer counties ; also in tbe mountains of 

 Colorado, lloUirock. 



§ 4. Thnniless and prirkless : leaves convolute in the hud: racemea several-flowered : 

 cahix-tube eUmgadd : berry naked and glabrous, many-seeded. — SiriloCALYX, 

 JMidl. {Chrysobotrya, Si>ach.) 



12. R. aureum, Pursli. Shrub 5 to 12 feet high, glabrous or almost so, gland- 

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



