192 Saxifragaceae 



1. It. affinis Gray. Stems 1 or several, 15-40 cm. high, sca- 

 brous-hirsute; basal leaves few, round-reniform, slightly lobed, 

 2-3 cm. broad; cauline 3-lobed to the middle, the lobes coarsely 

 toothed ; calyx 5 mm. long, turbinate, the tube more or less ad- 

 herent to the ovary; pedicels about equaling or slightly exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; lower petals 8-10 mm. long, 3-toothed, the upper 

 slightly smaller, entire; seeds faintly striate-pitted or almost 

 smooth. 



Occasional on shady banks in the foothills, below 4000 feet altitude. 

 March-May. 



5. RIBES L. 



Erect branching shrubs with alternate palmately 

 lobed, often resinous-glandular or viscid leaves. Stipules 

 when present adnate to the petiole. Flowers racemose, 

 rarely solitary on 1-2-leaved axillary shoots ; pedicels 

 subtended by a bract and usually bearing 2 bractlets at 

 about the middle. Calyx-tube adnate to the globose 

 ovary and more or less produced above it. Petals 5 or 

 rarely 4, erect, mostly smaller than the calyx-lobes. 

 Stamens equaling the petals in number and alternate 

 with them. Ovary 1-celled with 2 parietal placenta? ; 

 styles 2, more or less united ; stigmas terminal. Fruit a 

 berry, crowned with the withered remains of the flower. 



* T hornless. CUBRANT. 



*- Flowers yellow; leaves convolute in bud. 



1. B. tenuiflorum Lindl. Shrub, 1-3 m. high, nearly gla- 

 brous, glandless ; leaves light green, 3-5-lobed at apex, not cor- 

 date ; racemes many-flowered ; bracts green, conspicuous ; flowers 

 bright yellow; calyx salver-shaped, tube 1 cm. long or more; lobes 

 oval, % as long as the tube; berry glabrous, amber color. 



Eaton's Wash, near Sierra Madre. February-March. 



*- *- Flowers not yellow; leaves plaited in tlie bud. 



2. B. malvaceum viridifoliuni Abrains. Shrub 1-2 in. high, 

 the young branches short-pubescent and more or less densely 

 glandular with stalked glands; leaves rather thick, 3-7 cm. 



