Jiibes. SAXIFRAGACE^. 207 



Shady woods, Cottonaby Creek, Mendocino Co., Bolander. Tlirou'di tlie western part of Ore 

 gon to Sitka. ^ 



9. R. cereum, Dougl. A foot to a yard liigh, much branched, minutely 

 l^ubescent, usually resinous-dotted and more or less glutinous, sometimes glabrous : 

 leaves rounded or reniform, obscurely or more decidedly 3-lobed, crenately toothed 

 or incised, half an inch to an inch in diameter, of rather hrm texture : racemes 

 drooping, compactly 3 - 5-flo\vered : 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. — Bot. Reg. t. 1263; Hook. Bot, Mag. t. 3008. 



Not rare tlu-ongh the drier parts of the Sierra Nevada, from Mt. Pinos (Rolhrock) northward, 

 and through the interior to Washington Territory, New Mexico, and Dakotah. A var. pedicellarc, 

 from Montana, has slender pedicels longer than the bract. 



% * Gahjx prolonged above the ovari) into a campanulate or cylindrical tube : fruit 

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

 conspicuous. 



+■ Flowers dull white or greenish, or sometimes imrxjlish-tinged : raceme somewhat 

 corymb-like and feiv-flowered. 



10. R. viscosissimum, Pursh, A foot to a yard high, pubescent and viscid- 

 glandular : leaves cordate-rounded and moderately lobed, thinnish, veiny, 1 t(j 4 

 inches in diameter : racemes ascending : flowers slender-pedicelled, about half an 

 inch long and comparatively broad : calyx-tube at tirst campanulate ; its lobes ob- 

 long and at least half the length of the tube: berry black. — Hook. 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 Rocky Mountains. A form with smooth ovary, Sierra Co., Levwion. 



-f- -f- Flowers rose-red, or varying to white : racemes drooping, mostly many-flowered. 



11. R. sanguineum, Pursh. Shrub 2 to 12 feet high, 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, blackish, rather bitter, — Dougl. in Hort. Trans, vii. t. 13; Lindl. Bot. Pteg. 

 t. 1349 ; Hook. P.ot. Mag. t. 3335. — Runs into indefinite varieties, such as 



Var. glutinosum, a more glandular and less pubescent form, with large many- 

 flowered rac('m('s. — R. glutinosum, Benth. in Hort. Trans, n. ser. i. 476. 



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

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

 — R. mcdvaceum, Smith ; Don in Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t, 340. 



Var. variegatum, Watson. Low, nearly glabrous : 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), tht^, 

 whole flower only 3 lines long. — Bot. King Exp. 100. R. Wotjii, Rothrock in 

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



Conuiion through tlie Coast Ranges, on rocks and hills ; the var. glufinosum and var. malva- 

 ceum commoner southward ; the ordinary form extending northward "to British Cohinibia. Var. 

 variegatum in the Sierra Nevada, from Phimas to Placer counties ; also iu the mountains of 

 (Colorado, Rothrock. 



§ 4. Thornless and p>rickless : leaves convolute in tlie bud: racemes severcd-Jloirered : 

 calyx-t^ibe elongated : berry naked and glabrous, many-seeded. — Siphocalvx, 

 Endl. [Chrysobotrya, Spach.) 



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

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



