THE RED-FLOWERED CURRANT 



477 



stamens; style 2-cleft at apex, glabrous, slightly exceeding the 

 stamens ; ovary beset with short, glandular-tipped hairs, which 

 extend upward to the calyx and downward to the peduncles ; fruit 

 bluish black, generally rough, glandular- hairy, tough, dry and 

 bitterish. A variable species. 



Var. VARIEGATUM, Watson. 



Described as 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, the whole 

 flower only 3 lines (6 mm.) long. Available specimens in fruit 



Fig. 104. Ribes sanguineum (X%). 



indicate a slightly thicker and more leathery leaf, decidedly downy 

 beneath, a somewhat loose, erect, few-flowered cluster, with 

 deciduous bracts. This form is well marked, and perhaps ought 

 to stand as a separate species, being so recognized by some, under 

 the name R. Nevadense, Kellogg. 



What appears to be the eastern representative of the same form 

 was described from Colorado by Rothrock,* under the name JR. 

 Wolfii. Judging from the description only, this differs somewhat 

 from the western form, and perhaps ought to be recognized as a 

 separate variety, or possibly even as a distinct species. 



Original distribution. From southern British Columbia, through 

 California, eastward to the Rocky Mountains, in the form Wolfii, 



*Amer. Nat. 8:358. 



