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draccons, 2-3 lines long, the tube sliorter than the erect lobes: 

 ovary wliite-villous: berry dark purple, velvety-pubescent but 

 not glandular. — R. leptmithum var. brachyanthum^ Gray, Bot. 

 Cal. I. 205. 



Open grounds in the northern part of California and regions 

 adjacent. A stout shrub, 4-6 feet high with coarse, rigid, but 

 gracefully recurved branches. It differs from R. Icptanihuvi 

 not only in its shorter flowers, but in the velvety pubescence 

 which clothes not only both sides of the leaf, but more markedly 

 the fruit, even in its maturity. 



Professor Greene evidently erred in considering this species identical witii 

 Gray's plant. It has also been reported from Nevada in the vicinity of Carson. 



38. Hibes divaricatiiJiM Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 515. 

 1830. 



Ramis divaricatis setosis, aculeis 1-3 axillaribus deflexis, 

 foliis subrotundis 3 lobis inciso, dentatis nervosis glabris, pedun- 

 culis 3 fioris nutantibus, calyce campanulato: laciniis linearibus 

 reflexis tubo duplo longioribus, stylo staminibusque exsertis, 

 baccis glabris. 



A robust bush, of erect habit, six or eight feet high, with 

 divaricated branches, the younger ones sparingly and unequalh- 

 clothed with minute, bristle shaped prickles, and having one or 

 three large, strong, deflexed prickles under each bud. The 

 leaves are rounded, three lobed, coarsely cut, toothed, smooth 

 and veiny, about an inch long; the footstalks somewhat shorter, 

 with a few scattered hairs near their base. The clusters droop 

 below the branches, are three or five flowered, shorter than the 

 leaves, slender and smooth, with rounded subamplexicaul 

 bracteae. The calyx is bell shaped, yellowish green with linear 

 brownish red, reflected segments, which are double the length 

 of the tube. Petals wedge-shaped, white, half the length of the 

 limb. The stamens are exserted beyond the calyx, half an inch 

 long. Style considerably longer than the stamens, semi-bifid, 

 spreading, villous. ' Berry spherical, smooth, one-third of an 

 inch in diameter, black, pleasant to the taste. ' 



