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A common bush on the banks of streams near Indian vil- 

 lages, on the North West coast of America, from the forty-fifth 

 to the fifty second degree N. Lat. 



Our Califomian shrub, at least the one from the southern part of the State, 

 may be distinct. J^. villosum Nutt., originally from Santa Barbara, is said to 

 be the same as R. divaricatum, and if it really is, holds a unique position geo- 

 graphically, for no otlier species of this genus inhabiting the coast region has 

 such an extended distribution, occun^ing from Santa Barbara northward into 

 Oregon and Washington. There are no specimens from Santa Barbara in my 

 own collection or in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. Nut- 

 tali obtained his t^rpe at "St. Barbara, California; common near the village on 

 the plain." 



39. Ril>es saxosuni Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 231. 1833. 



Canle iuerme rariiis aculeato, spinis nullis vel solitaiiis 

 binisve, foliis cordatis 5-lobis serratis glabriusculis, pedunculis 

 brevissiniis deflexis 1-2 floris, calycis glabri tubo campanulato, 

 laciniis patentibus demum reflexis corolla duplo longioribus 

 stamina subaequantibus, germine nudo. 



Common on the undulating grounds of the interior among 

 stones (N. W. Amer.) Douglas. Lake Huron, Dr. Todd. Sas- 

 katchewan, Dr. Richardson^ Mr. Drummond. This has the 

 same short peduncles as R. oxyacanthoides but a very different 

 and more campannlate calyx; in the latter respect coming near 

 R. Cynosbati. It is probably not uncommon in North America^ 

 and may have been confounded Vv^th some already described 

 species, or it may itself belong to the following species \hirtel- 

 hijn^ of this group, which seems to be scarcely known except 

 to Michaux, and on account of the vagueness of his character, 

 not to be determined, except by reference to his herbarium, if 

 indeed it exists there. I have received it from Dr. Boott, gath- 

 ered near Boston, under the name of R. triflorjm, and hence, as 

 well as from Dr. Bigelow^'s description, I suspect it to be the 

 plant of the Florula Bostonensis, where the fruit is described as- 

 resembling a common Gooseberry. 



This is supposedly the plant called R. oxyacanthoides, so far as the west- 

 ern form is concerned. It is subalpine in the Sierrcs, occurring from Mariposa 



