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outline, 12mm, across, truncate at base, deeply five lobed, the 

 divisions cuneate, incised, pubescent on both sides with short 

 hairs; petioles filiform, about icm, long, pubescent as the blades, 

 but the hairs longer and Vv-hiter: peduncles about icm. long, 

 filiform, pubescent like the petioles and with some short stalked 

 glands in addition; bearing at the summit a roundish bract of 

 over I mm: flowers yellovv, one or tvro, on pedicels i to 2mm. 

 long, each subtended b}'' a bract similar to the one terminating 

 the peduncle, white pubescent outside and along the inner edge 

 nf the calyx lobes: calyx about 8mm. long, the nearly cylindri- 

 cal tube 4mm. long, 2mm wide, equalled by the oblong obtuse 

 lobes imm. wide: petals yellow, broadly spatulate, a little over 

 2mm. long, imm. wide above, obtuse, included imm. within the 

 expanded calyx: stamens a little shorter than the petals, thus 

 about 2mm. long, the stout fxlaments narrovred above; anthers 

 ovate, obtuse, with slightly cordate base, about imm. long, thus 

 nearly equalling the filaments: stjde ver\' short, 3mm. long, 

 included vnthin the calyx tube, glabrous, tVv'O lobed, the lobes 

 rather slender and spreading: ovary glabrous. 



The type was collected on dry stony hillsides below Mor- 

 mon Bar, ]\Iariposa county, California, March 10, 1903, by Mr. 

 J. W. Congdon, and distributed as Ribes lepta7ithum^ a species 

 which hardly reaches California, at least not the western slope 

 of the Sierra. R. Congdoniiorms a connecting link between 

 R. gicercetoriim of the southern Coast Range and R. lasianthum 

 i:)f the northern Sierras, perhaps more related in general appear- 

 ance to the former, which, however, is a smooth plant. 



The term "stamens exserted" in the part of the key relat- 

 ing to this species should be corrected to "stamens included." 

 The misleading term was adopted from a floAver with reflexed 

 calyx lobes, in which case the stamens would naturally appear 

 exserted. 



