100 BOTANY. 



quent on the mountains throughout Nevada and Utah, from thei!" base to 

 nearly the highest peaks ; 5-11,000 feet altitude; May-September. (379.) 



RiBES viscosissiMUM, Pursh. Unarmed, viscid-pubescent; leaves cordate, 

 roundish, obtusely 3-5-lobed, the lobes short, rounded, doubly crenate- 

 serrate ; racemes suberect, somewhat corymbed ; bracts conspicuous, spatu- 

 late, nearly equaling the glandular pedicels ; calyx campanulate, the greenish- 

 yellovi^ segments rather shorter than Ijhe tube ; style 2-cleft at the apex ; 

 fruit ovoid, black, viscid-pubescent.— Stems 3° high, rather weak, growing 

 on shaded mountain slopes ; flowers large, 4' long above the ovary. Rocky 

 Mountains of Idaho. In the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 8-9,000 feet altitude ; 

 June-August. (380.) 



RiBES SANGUiNEUM, Pursh. Unarmed, glandular-puberulent or more 

 or less tomentose ; leaves cordate, 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate, subglabrous 

 above ; racemes puberulent and glandular, exceeding the leaves, loosely 

 many-flowered ; pedicels about the length of the flowers, rather shorter than 

 the ovate-spatulate bracts ; calyx tubular-campanulate, the segments ovate or 

 oblong, obtuse, reflexed, longer than the petals ; style more or less bifid ; 

 fruit subglobose, somewhat glandular-hirsute, destitute of pulp. — A variable 

 species, doubtless including R. glutinosum, Benth., and perhaps also R. 

 malvaceum, Sm., which, however, has the leaves strigose-hirsute above, the 

 racemes shorter and more dense, and the style and interior of the calyx-tube 

 hairy. The calyx is 3-6" in length and with the bracts usually of a deep 

 rose-color. Frequent from Washington Territory through California. 

 Var. VAEiEGATUM. Nearly glabrous throughout, with the petioles and 

 peduncles glandular-puberulent, and the ovary somewhat glandular-hispid ; 

 flowers in short dense racemes, the pedicels about equaling the ovate reddish 

 bracts ; calyx campanulate, the tube very short, scarcely equaling the ovate 

 deep rose-red segments ; petals white, rounded, short ; style deeply bifid. — 

 Possibly a distinct species, but probably Only an extreme form of R. san- 

 guineum in those respects in which that "species is most variable — pubescence, 

 form of the calyx, and denseness of inflorescence. None of the specimens are 

 yet in full flower.. A branching shrub, 2-3° high ; Washoe Mountains, near 

 Carson City, on stream banks ; 5,000 feet altitude ; April. Collected also 

 by Dr. Anderson. (381.) 



RiBES AUREUM, Pursh. Unarmed, glabrous ; leaves convolute in verna- 

 tion, rather thick, 3-lobed, lobes divaricate, incisely few-toothed, ciliate when 



