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bus tubulatis, petalis oblongis, bracteis lineari-spathulatis pedi- 

 cello diiplo brevioribus germinibiis hirsutis. 



On the Rocky-mountain in the interior of North America. 

 M. Lewis. June. v. s. in Herb. Lewis. Flowers large, yel- 

 low; the whole plant covered with viscous hairs. This species 

 approaches near to R. glandulosiini. fi. periiv. j. p. ij. t. 2jj.f. 

 b. It differs principally in the leaves being equally lobated, not 

 having the middle lobe projecting; its long sleuder pedicels, and 

 its petals. 



'*' Douglas, who was acquainted with this species in the field, gives the best 



description of it in Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 511: " - - 



"This is a large branching bush, six to eight feet high, with perfectlj- smooth 

 dark red bark; the viscid glandular pubescence which clothes the j'oung shoots, 

 like the preceding [i?. sanguineuin'], disappears with the white, thin, deciduous 

 bark in spring. The leaves are heart shaped, three-lobed, serrate on the edges, 

 rugose and veiny, three and a half inches in length, two and a half in breadth, 

 on footstalks of nearly equal length, everywhere clothed with a copious clammy, 

 glandular pubescence, which emits when touched, a peculiar scent, like that of 

 old apples. The flowerstalks are lax, nearly double the length of the leaves, 

 equally pubescent and glutinous. The calyx fs tubular, short, swollen or ven- 

 tricose in the middle, with lanceolate, spreading, and somewhat waved seg- 

 ments of a faint yellow color, fragrant. The petals are ovate, white, one-third 

 shorter than- the limb of the calyx, and of the same length with the stamens. 

 Style slightly cloven. The berry is turbinate, the fourth of an inch long, hairy, 

 dark brown or black, with a thick, tough skin. Like R. sanguineum, the seeds 

 are small, very numerous, adhering together by a small quantity of colorless, 

 slimy flnid, having no true pulp. *" The flavor of the berries is musky, or mawk- 

 ish, and so disagreeable that two or three are sufficieot to produce vomiting. 

 No animal, so far as I know, touches it, excepting a species of Myoxus, which 

 feeds on the leaves and berries in summer, and on the bark during the winter 

 months. ' ' 



"It is an inhabitant only of the subalpine range of the highest mountains, 

 abounding in dry fissures of limestone rocks, flowering in May, and ripening its 

 fruit in August. On the hills around the Kettle Falls of the Columbia river, in 

 48° 37' 40'''' N. Latitude, 118° W. Longitude, at an elevatiou of 8000 feet above 

 the level of the sea, it forms a principal part of the brushwood, and is equally 

 plentiful on the western declivities of the Rocky mountains, between the para- 

 llels of 46° and 52° N. Latitude." 



The species is not uncommon in California in the northern Sierras, and oc- 

 curs as far south as Mariposa county. 



