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in close racemes, bea-atiful golden yellow; berries red or brov/n, 

 of an exquisitely fine taste, and considerably larger size than 

 any of the garden currants. " The shrub before flowering has the 

 appearance of a species of Crataegus y 



For manj' years our botanies mentioned but a single species of the j-el!o\v 

 flowered currant, until in the Flora Franciscana, 196. 1891, Professor Greene 

 reinstated Lindley's R. iefiui^orum, restricting to that name the plant of tiie Pa- 

 cific coast. In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington for 

 1903, pages 23-26, Mr. F. Y. Coviile discusses this group of plants, and shows 

 that the name te^iuiflorum is a s3^^onym of PAireum, the type of whfch was co^" 

 lected by Captain Meriwether Lewis April 16, 1806, "on the site of the present 

 town of The Dalles, in Oregon." The eastern plant, of the Missouri region, is 

 to be known as R. longifiorurn Nutt. Our California plant, which may pos- 

 sibly prove to be distinct from aureuni if it has an uniformly amber colored fruit, 

 is found principally in the northern part of the State, in both tlie Coast Range 

 r.nd the Sierra. 



2. Ribes bracteosuin Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. is 

 233- ^833. 



Inerme, foliis Icnge petiolatis cordatis profunde 5-7 lobis, 

 lobis acuminatis incisis duplicato-serratis supra hispidulis sub- 

 tus resinoso-punctatis, racemis saepe terminalibus demum de- 

 flexis, pedicellis (quoad axin) erecte-patentibus pubescentibus 

 bracteas spathulatas excedentibns, calyce rotato glabro, petalis 

 minutis rotundatis, germinibus baccisque resinoso-punctatis. 



Species insignis, 5-8 pedalis, ramis erectis, glabris, inenni- 

 bus. Folia juniora nunc 3 lobata adulta et tunc longe petiolata 

 5- plerum.que 6-loba, circumscriptione cordata, ampla, supra hir- 

 sutula, subtus glabra paliidiora, punctis resinosis adspersa, lobis 

 acuminatis, subregnlariter incisis duplicato-serratis. Racemi 

 saepe in ramulis terminales prinium erecti, fructiferi deSexi, 

 valde eiongati spitliamaei. Rachis robiista glabriuscula. Pedi- 

 celli semi-unciam longi pubescentes, erecto-patentes, stricti, non 

 raro oppositi, bractea spathuliformi nunc ad basin racemi foli- 

 osa lobata distincte petiolata, lobis acutissimis. Flores purpu- 

 rascenti-fiavi. Calyx rotatus; lobi obtusissimi petalis rotundatis 

 3-plo majeres. Germen globcsum, punctis mxajusculis resinosis 

 adspersum. Bacca nigra rnagnitudiiie (vix matura) R. ruhri^ 

 resinoso-p u nc lata. 



