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2mni. long-, obtuse. Pistil two-cleft for 2nim. Ovary densely 

 clothed with horizontally spreading fine, vsilky hairs mixed with 

 some longer, glandular hairs, the glands purple. Fruit purple, 

 clothed v>'ith short, weak bristles and scattered hairs. Some of 

 the bristles retain the purple glands on the fruit. 



Collected in flower by Mr. R. A. Plaskett, at Spruce Creek; 

 also at Gorda, in flower and fruit. Collected by the author at 

 Pacific Valley, with immature fruit. jR. sericeum flowers in 

 December and January and fruits in June. At Point Sur speci- 

 mens were collected by the author in June, 1893, with very 

 large, pear-shaped fruit, alm.ost 4cm. long, and specimens with 

 globular fruit were collected at about the same time at Slate's 

 Hot Springs. All these localities are on the coast of Monterey 

 County, California, at the base of the Santa Lucia Mountains, 

 and the range extends from south of Point Gorda to north of 

 Point Sur. 



Ribes sericeum is related to R. subvestitum Hook. & Ani. 

 but it has different leaves, different pubescence, and the floral 

 organs are not the same. 



Ribes sericeum viridescens Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. 

 Bot. 2: 247. 1902. 



The variety is similar to the type, but the flov/ers are smal- 

 ler and greenish, the leaves are more densely clothed with silky 

 white hairs, and are more orbicular-reniform. The peduncles 

 in the specimens examined all have single fiowers. 



This variety was collected by R. A. Plaskett at Gorda, Mon- 

 terey County, California, January, i\ 



29. Kibes JLolbMi A. Gray, Am. Nat. lO: 274. 1876. 



R. Lobbii Gray. I am under the necessity of giving a 

 name to this little known but apparently very distinct species. 

 It is figured by Hooker in ih^ BottLnical Magazine^ tab. 4931, as 

 R. subvestitttm Hook, and Arn., from a Californian plant sent 

 by the late Mr. Lobb (whether seeds or young plants is not men- 



