Ribes. SAXIFRAGACEJE. 207 



Shady woods, Cottonaby Creek, Mendocino Co., Bolander. Through the western part of Ore- 

 gon to Sitka. 



9. R. cereum, Dougl. A foot to a yard high, much branched, minutely 

 pubescent, usually resinous-dotted and more or less glutinous, sometimes glabrous : 

 leaves rounded or reniform, obscurely or more decidedly 3-lobed, crenately toothed 

 or incised, half an inch to an inch in diameter, of rather firm texture: racemes 

 drooping, compactly 3 — 5-flowered: pedicels hardly any or shorter tlian the bract : 

 calyx waxy-white, sometimes greenish or pinkish ; the tube cylindrical, 4 or 5 lines 

 long, very much longer than the ovate recurved lobes : petals orbicular: berry red- 

 dish, sweetish. — Bot. Peg. t. 1263; Hook. Lot. Mag. t. 3008. 



Not rare through the drier parts of the Siena Nevada, from Mt. Pinos (Rolhrock) northward, 

 and through the interior to Washington Territory, New Mexico, and Dakotah. A var.pcdi 

 from Montana, has slender pedicels longer than the bract. 



* * Calyx prolonged above the ovary into a campanulate or cylindrical tube : fruit 



and foliage more or less glandular : leaves rounded or with roundish lobes: bracts 

 conspicuous. 



+- Flowers dull white or greenish, or sometimes purplish-tinged: raceme somewhat 

 corymb-like and few-flowered. 



10. R. viscosissimum, Pursh. A foot to a yard high, pubescent and viscid- 

 glandular: leaves cordate-rounded and moderately lobed, thinnish, veiny, 1 to 4 

 inches in diameter: racemes ascending: Bowers slender-pedicelled, about half an 

 inch long and comparatively broad : calyx-tube at first campanulate : its lobes ob- 

 long and at least half the length of the tube: berry black. — Hook. Fl. i. 234, t. 7o. 



Woods in the .Sierra Nevada at <!,000 to 8,000 feet, from Mariposa Co. northward to the British 

 boundary and also in the Rocky Mountains. A form with smooth ovary, Sierra Co., Lemmon. 



+■ +- Flowers rose-red, or varying to white : racemes drooping, mostly many-flowered. 



11. R. sanguineum, Pursh. Shrub 2 to 12 feet high, varying from nearly 

 glabrous to tomentose-canescent, either almost glandless or glandular: leaves 

 rounded-cordate and obtusely 3 — 5-lobed: racemes druse: calyx-tube above the 

 ovary from campanulate to short-cylindraceous, 2 or 3 lines long, equalling or ex- 

 ceeding the oblong bd.es: berry mostly somewhat hispid-glandular, tough ami nol 

 juicy, blackish, rather bitter. — Dougl. in Ilort. Trans, vii. t. 1.".; LindL Bot. log. 

 1. 1349 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 333.5. — Puns into indefinite varieties, such as 



Var. glutinosum, a more glandular and less pubescent form, with large many- 

 flowered racemes. — 1!. glutinosum, Benth. in Unit. Trans, n. ser. i. 476. 



Var. malvaceum, tin- most tomentose form ; the smaller and contracted ra- 

 cemes, ovaries, and calyx also toraentose-villous ; tie' latter often flesh-color or while. 

 — /.'. malvaceum, Smith; Don in Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 340. 



Var. variegatum, AVatson. Low, nearly glabrous: racemes short and dense. 

 ascending, barely glandular : calyx-tube broadly campanulate, not longer than tin' 

 lobes, rose-color with the petals white (as they "ft en are in tin' typical form), the 

 whole flower only 3 lines long. — Hot. King Exp. 100. I!. \\'<>ljii. Rothrock in 

 Am. Naturalist, viii. 358, .V in Wheeler, Cat. 38. 



Common through the Coast Ranges, en rocks and bills; the var. glutinosum and var. m 



ccitm conn ni southward : the ordinary form extending northward to British Columbia. Var. 



variegatum in the Sierra Nevada, limn Plumas to Placer counties; also in the mountains of 

 i lolorado, Rolhrock. 



§ I. Thornless and priceless : leaves convolttti i,i tin bud: racemes several-flowered : 

 calyx-tube elongated : berry naked and < . many-seeded. — Sifhoi \i\\. 



Endl. {Chrysobotrya, Spach.) 



12. R. aureum, Pursh. Shrub 5 t" 12 feet high, land- 

 lcss : leaves 3 — 5-lobcd, rarely at all cordate; the lobes usually few-toothed "r 



