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broad, slightly or not at all rugose, minutely scabrous and some- 

 what glandular with sessile glands above, pale and glandular- 

 pubescent beneath ; petioles beset with stalked glands and more 

 or less puberulent; inflorescence glandular-pubescent, racemes 

 rather long-peduncled, drooping, many-flowered ; bracts ovate, 1 

 cm. long, ciliate-toothed above ; pedicels 3-4 mm. long ; calyx rose- 

 colored below, becoming nearly white above, its tube cylindric, 

 pubescent within, 12 mm. long; its lobes broadly ovate, rounded 

 at apex, 4-5 mm. long; petals rounded, 2 mm. broad; anthers 

 nearly sessile, 2 mm. long; style pubescent; berries becoming 

 reflexed at maturity, on short pedicels, pubescent and rather 

 sparsely beset with coarse gland-tipped hairs, purplish, 1 cm. 

 long. 



Occasional in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains, below 4000 

 feet altitude. March-April. 



3. R. Nevadense Kell. Rather slender, loosely branching 

 shrub, 1-2 m. high, older bark flaky deciduous; leaves 5-10 cm. 

 broad, thin, not rugose, bright green and glabrous above, paler 

 beneath and sparsely pubescent ; stipular base of petiole ciliate- 

 margined with long coarse plumose hairs ; racemes rather short 

 and dense, on rather long pendulous peduncles; flowers rose- 

 colored ; calyx-tube urceolate, 3 mm. long, lobes spreading, about 

 equaling the tube ; berry small, globose, glabrous, black. 



Strain's Camp, Mount Wilson. Frequent along streams in the San An- 

 tonio and San Bernardino Mountains, in the pine belt. May. 



** Thorny. GOOSEBERRY. 

 *- Flowers 5-merous. 



4. B. divaricatum Dougl. Shrub, 1-2.5 m. high, spreading, 

 glabrous or nearly so, thorns single or sometimes triple; leaves 

 roundish, 3-5-lobed, the lobes incisely toothed ; peduncles slender, 

 elongated, drooping, 3-9-flowered ; pedicels with broad bract at 

 base; calyx green without, purplish within, 5-7 mm. long; tube 

 short, campanulate, much exceeded by the oblong lobes; petals 

 white, fan-shaped, margins convolute; filiform filaments and 

 style much exserted; berry small, glabrous, black. 



Oak Krioll, near Pasadena, McClatchie. March. 



5. B. amarum McClatchie. Shrub, 1-3 m. high, the rigid 

 stems and branches beset with yellow-brown commonly triple 

 spines, often hispid; leaves inflorescence and young branches 



