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white; the open calyx 3 lines in diameter, its short lobes round- 

 ed: small petals and stamens very short: berry light red, not 

 larger than peas, acid (intermediate between a gooseberry and a 

 currant), sometimes nearly or quite naked. 



In the Sierra Nevada at 6,000 to 10,000 feet, from Mariposa 

 Co. northward. 



Jones gives a very meagre description of this plant: "Densely covered 

 throughout with a yellowish, viscous pubescence, as well as soft hairs. This is 

 the common form throughout the mountain region of Utah and Nevada, the pu- 

 bescence being so viscous as to stain the sheets yellow in which the plants were 

 collected. It is possible that the glutinous pubescence was overlooked in Gray's 

 type of var. molle, in that case this will be identical with it." 



Howell's description adds nothing to the original one of Gray, and the only 

 difference in McClatchie's description of R. nubigenum is that the leaves are 

 only about half as large. He adds the character "anthers broader than long, 

 deeply lobed." 



In specimens of my own collecting at Donner Pass, in Placer county, the 

 calyx is yellow, about 5mm. across, the purplish fan-shaped petals are only a 

 little more than imm. high on a short claw half as wide as the petal: stamens 

 unequal, some as long as and some shorter than the petals, inserted on a thin 

 erect rim or disc, which forms a reddish center to the calyx. The anthers are 

 broader than long, deeply notched, as described by McClatchie. 



It is a widely distributed plant, occurring throughout California in the high 

 Sierras, and, as mentioned before, in the southern Coast Range, and extends 

 east into the Rocky mountains. 



20. Kibes Menziesii Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 2i 732. 1814. 

 Ribesferox Smith, Rees Cycl. 30: 1819. 



R. sub gemnis 3-plicato-aculeatum; ramis hispidissimis, 

 foliis basi truncatis sub 5~lobis inciso-dentatis, lobis lateralibus 

 brevioribus, subtus tomentosis, pedunculis subbifloris foliis sub- 

 aeqnantibus, calycibus tubulosis: limbo patente, staminibus lon- 

 gitudine calycis, stylo exerto, baccis globosis aculeatis. 



On the north-west coast, near Fort Trinidad. Menzies, v. 



s. in Herb, Banks. The flowers of the size and colour of R. san- 



guinemn. 



R. ferox Smith, is an undoubted synonym, as it is based on the same speci- 

 mens, for smith says: "Gathered by Mr. Menzies, near Port Trinidad, in Cali- 

 fornia." Greene, in Fl. Franciscana, 202, says this species occurs from Hum- 

 boldt county to Santa Barbara, but it hardly occurs south of San Francisco Bay, 

 unless in places quite near the ocean. It is badly mixed in the Botany of Call- 



