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1906] ELMER—NEW WESTERN PLANTS 315 
Type specimen no. 4586, collected on Black Mountain, Santa Clara County, 
California, July 1905. 
It is a very late summer-flowering annual, chiefly confined to dry gravelly 
soil immediately bordering thickets of the Californian chamiso (Adenostoma jasci- 
culatum H. and A.). Named for Mr. L. R. ABRAMS, a former student of botany 
and classmate at Stanford University. 
Ribes Stanfordii, n. sp.—A rigidly branched shrub, 1 to 1.5™ high, 
nearly as broad: bark on the younger branches light brown, becom- 
ing grayish white with age, thin, separating into shreds; branchlets 
subtended and protected by 3 spines, very short and rigid; spines 
about 1°™ long, straight, shining brown, divaricate, distinct, the 
middle ones usually longer, exceeding the axillary leafy branchlets; 
branchlets terminated by 1 to 3 small tufts of leaves, subtended by 
diminutive spines, each tuft provided with a subwhorl of 3 to 5 leaves 
and terminated by a small inflorescence of 1 to 3 flowers: leaves 
orbicular, 8™™ long including the finely glandular pubescent 2 to 3"™ 
long petiole, deeply cleft into 3 segments, soft pubescent on both 
sides, rather thick, the segments usually terminated by subequal 
obtusely rounded teeth or lobes, obscurely 3 to 5-nerved; petiole 
gradually expanded at base into the adnate stipules: flowers 3, 
upon a short and pubescent peduncle, each separately inserted and 
sessile, subtended by conspicuously broad pubescent bracts: calyx 
about the ovary densely pubescent, 3™™ in diameter, its tube 2"™ in 
diameter, less pubescent, about 2™™ long, the 5 segments exceeding 
the corolla by 1™™, triangularly obtuse, puberulous on the outer 
surface, 2™™ long, yellow, rotate or much reflexed: corolla deeper 
yellow, inserted upon the calyx throat and alternating with the seg- 
ments, straight, obovate, 2™™ long: anthers 5, inserted upon the 
calyx throat and opposite the segments, equaling the corolla; fila- 
ments glabrous, flattened, 1.5™™ long: style erect, subterete, slightly 
exceeding the stamens: anthers ovate, obtuse at apex, light yellow, 
truncate or only obscurely lobed at base, 1.5™™ long, 1™™ wide at 
the base: berry yellow and pubescent at least when young. 
Type specimen no. 3958, collected on Mt. Pinos near Griffin’s Postoffice, 
Ventura County, California, July 1902. 
It was discovered in open pine regions in the vicinity of cliffs and rocky out- 
croppings at the summit. Not common. Distributed as R. nubigenum Mc- 
Clatch 
