2( 12 SAXIFRAGACEAE. 



lobea few-toothed 01 incised; racemes about 1 in. long, loose, with few to 

 Beveral Sowers, the bracts foliaceous and conspicuous; flowers golden yellow; 

 calyx tube Balverform, •"> to 4 times the length of the oval lobes; berry yellow- 

 ish, 2 lines long. 



Banks of streams, Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. 



2. R. sanguineum Pursh var. glutinosum Brew. & Wats. Flowering Cur- 

 rant. Erect or spreading shrub, 5 to 8 or 9 ft. high; bark brownish, shreddy; 

 herbage glandular; leaves thin, orbicular-cordate in outline, 1 to 1% in. broad. 

 the lobes shallow and rather finely serrate; petioles 1 to 1% in. long; racemes 



1 to 2 in. long, the bracts colored; flowers rose-color, 5 lines long; pedicels 

 :> lines long, with 2 bractlets at apex; calyx reddish, the lobes elliptic, spread- 

 ing; petals obovate, 1% lines long, white, changing to deep red; stamens and 

 style not surpassing the petals; berry blue-black, with bloom, 4 lines in 

 diameter. 



Common in canons or on northward slopes near the coast. Jan.-Mar. 



3. R. malvaceum Smith. Similar to the preceding but with stouter branches 

 and commonly more strictly erect and compact, 4 to 6 ft. high; leaves thick, 

 conspicuously rugulose, slightly scabrous above, more or less white-tomentose 

 beneath; ilowers rose-color or very pale pink; berry glaucous, somewhat his- 

 pidulous or hairy, the pulp soft and sweet. 



Open hills of the Coast Ranges about San Francisco Bay: Berkeley; Vaca 

 Mts. Dec. -Jan. 



4. R. divaricatum Dougl. Straggly Gooseberry. Shrub 4 to 6 ft, high, 

 with long straggling branches; bark dull gray; herbage glandular when young; 

 subaxillary spines most often 1, sometimes 3; leaves roundish, palmately 3 

 to 5-cleft, the divisions incised or crenately toothed; petioles shorter or longer 

 than the blades; racemes drooping; pedicels slender. 1 ' 2 in. long, with a small 

 roundish bract at base; flowers 5 lines long; sepals broadly oblong, obtuse, 



2 lines long, green without, dull purple within; petals white, fan-shaped, plane, 

 less than 1 line long; stamens and style long-exserted, the latter deeply cleft, 

 long-villous at the middle. 



Shaded canons and flats, mostly near the coast: San Francisco; Oakland 

 Hills; Marin Co.; Mendocino Co.; southward to Southern California and north- 

 ward to British Columbia. 



5. R. victoris Greene. Victor's Gooseberry. Low bush, 1% to 2 ft. 

 high, the branches of the season or preceding season with soft prickles and 

 weak spines, the older branches unarmed and with gray-brown bark; young 

 herbage birsutulous and very viscid-glandular; leaves */> to *4 in. long, crenately 

 incised, distinctly 5-lobed, the lower pair of lobes much smaller; flowers 8 

 lines Long, on long (1 to 1*4 in-) slender pedicels which bear an ovate bract 

 1 line long (dose below the flower, or the bracts 2 and the flowers as many; 

 sepals dull white; petals clear white, similar to no. 7; filaments stoutish, much 

 surpassing the petals; fruit golden yellow, 7 or 8 lines in diameter, densely 

 covered with slender prickles. 



Marin and Sonoma cos. eastward to the Vaca Mts. 



6. R. calif ornicum If. & A. Hillside Gooseberry. Compact shrub, with 

 more in Less flexuous branches, -'•_> to 4 ft. high; leaves at flowering time most- 

 ly i ._. to "'i in. broad, the entire Upper surface g hi ndular-shining ; flowers 

 solitary (sometimes ->. 5 lines long; pedicels with a couple of shallowly lobed 



bracts at middle; calyx greenish, purplish-tinged, glabrous; petals white, 



