THE GOOSEBERRY OF THE PLAINS 



455 



toothed at the summit, reaching half way to the base of the an- 

 thers; style commonly 2-cleft, glabrous, together with the stamens 

 about equaling the calyx lobes in length; anthers double, short, 

 broad and blunt ; ovary and berry densely covered with very short, 

 fine, glandular-tipped prickles or hairs, which extend to the 

 peduncles, petioles and other young parts of the plant. 



Found on the Pacific coast from northern California northward. 



In general appearance this species closely resembles R. sub- 

 vestitum, Hook. & Arn., and is the plant figured under that name 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 4931. R. Lobbii is distinguished by the absence of 

 prickles from, the stems, its long filaments and short, blunt an- 

 thers, and the shorter and finer, stiff, glandular hairs which cover 

 its fruit. 



R. Marsliallii, Greene, as originally described,* seems to corre- 

 spond so closely to this species that without access to specimens 

 there does not appear to be suffi- 

 cient reason for giving it specific 

 rank. 



12. R. GRACILE, Michx. (Fig. 86.) 



Low shrub, the old stems gen- 

 erally smooth and shining, the 

 young shoots densely covered 

 with prickles, which scale off 

 with the bark as they grow older. 

 Thorns mostly single, sometimes 

 triple, stout, straight, reddish, 

 /-% inch (G-10 mm.) long; 

 branches with occasional small, 

 slender prickles ; leaves thin, 

 rather sharply toothed, %-l/ 

 inches (2-4 cm.) in diameter; 

 peduncles mostly 2 -flowered, long 

 slender and drooping, smooth, 

 or barely showing a trace of 

 pubescence ; flower finely divided 



and fragile ; calyx tube narrow, almost cylindrical ; lobes long and 

 narrow, often widely extended when in flower, whitish, or greenish 

 white; petals thin, obovate, or wedge-shaped, reflexed at the 



Ribesgracile (X%). 



*Pittonia 1:31. 



