74 



6. Ulbes saiig'umeuaiii Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1; 164. 1814- 

 R. inerme; foliis cordatis trilobis serratis venoso-lineati^i 



supra glabris, snbtus tetiui toin^iito albicantibus, racemis laxis 

 pubescentibus foliis daplo long-iDrib:i5, calycibus tubulatis, pet- 

 alis oblongis loiigitucline calycis, bractels obovato-spathulatis 

 loiigitudiue pedicellorutn, geminibus hirsiitis. 



On the Columbia river. M. Lewis. March, v. s. in Herb. 

 Lewis. Flov/ers beautiful, of a blood red or purple; branches 

 purple. It approaches near to R. albijteruium. Fi. peruv. j. p. 



12. t. 2J2.f. b. 



Credited to California from Del Norte county. Doug'las, who also gave an 

 extended description of this species in Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 509. 1830, says con- 

 cerninc^ its history: "So long ago as the year 17S7, my esteemed friend, Archi- 

 l.>ald Menzies, Esq., during his first voyage around the world, discovered this 

 species near Nootka Sound, a'.id, subsequently on his second voyage with the 

 celebrated Vancouver, in 1792, found it again on various points of the coast of 

 North-west America. From that period to 1814, it lay unnoticed in our her- 

 baria, when the above quoted author described it, partly from specimens col- 

 lected in 1805 by the enterprising American travelers, Lewis and Clarke, during 

 their memorable journey, and partly from specimens deposited by Mr. Menzies, 

 in the Herbarium of the late Sir Joseph Banks, and that of the British Museum." 

 Although Pursh may have examined the specimens collected by Menzies, his 

 published description is based wholly upon the specimens of Lewis. 



7. Bibes Sciipliiiiiii Bastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 



242.//. 2j.f. 2a and 2b. 1902. 

 Shrub with the upper bark reddish, shreddy, puberuleut, 

 unarmed, Leaves orbicular, three- to five-lobed, truncate to ren- 

 iform at base, 2-5cm. wide, about as long, unevenly dentate; up- 

 per surface pubescent with crisp, spreading hairs; lower canes- 

 cent with matted hairs, stipular dilation of the petiole broad, 

 glandular, and tomentose, fringed with glandular hairs; petioles 

 about as long as the blades, with pubescence like the stipules. 

 Racemes numerous at the ends of the^branches, 9cm. long, slen- 

 der, when flowering erect on peduncles which are shorter than 

 the leaves; bracts oblanceolate, red, glandular, 8mm. long, den- 

 ticulate at apex; pedicels filiform, erect, a little longer than the 

 bracts. Flowers subtended by two small, red bracteoles which 



