84 



que piloso-glandulosis, calycibus campanulatis, bracteis ovatis ciliatis, baccis 

 hirsutis. 



"Branches slender, reclining, rarely divided, thickly clotlied with long, 

 sharp, bristly, brown prickles; these are five or seven in number, large, long, 

 flattened, and combined under the buds. Leaves five lobed, smooth on both 

 sides, unequally toothed, on slightly pilose petioles, which are shorter than the 

 leaves. The flowers hang in a lax, slender raceme, nearly double the length of 

 the leaves; the partial footstalks and germen covered with brown glandular 

 hairs; bractae ovate, half the length of the pedicels. Calyx bell-shaped, with 

 rounded, spreading, and somewhat reflected segments, brownish-yellow, with a 

 dark rim, scarcely longer than the rounded petals. Berries black, hair>', small, 

 of a pleasant taste. 



"This species in several respects is nearly related to R. lacustre. The de- 

 pressed habit, the much more copious clothing of longer and stronger prickles, 

 the less divided and perfectly smooth leaves, the black-rimmed calyx and black 

 fruit, render it truly distinct. I have not seen R. armatum of the Linnaean her- 

 barium, but I suspect that species to be still more nearly akin to the one now 

 noticed. 



"It is a common trailing shrub, on dry shelving rocky places on the moun- 

 tams, at the grand rapids on the Columbia, and on the mountains of northern 

 California, never frequenting edges of rills or swampy ground in shady woods 

 among Carices, as R. lacustre does. This species flowered for the first time in 

 the Society's garden last April." 



19. Ribes lentum (Jones) Coville and Rose, Proc. Biol. Soc, 

 Wash. 15: 26. 1902. 

 Ribes lacustre var. molle A. Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 206. 1876. 

 Ribes lacustre var. lentum Jones, Proc. Cal. Acad. II. 5 : 



681. 1895. 

 Ribes molle Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 209. 1898, not Poepp. 



1858. 

 Ribes nubigenum McClatchie, Erythea, 2: 80. 1894, not 



Phil. 1856. 

 Ribes montigenum McClatchie, Erythea, 5: 38. 1897. 

 R. lacustre, Poiret, var. iwolle, Gray. A foot or two 

 high, much branched: branches bristly-prickly or naked, armed 

 with short triple or multiple thorns under the fascicles: leaves 

 small (usually about an inch in diameter), downy-pubescent, 

 roundish in outline, 5-parted, and the lobes incisely toothed and 

 cleft: racemes 5-9 flowered, short-ped uncled: flowers greenish- 



