274 Our Wild Cooseberries. [May, 
R. Lobbii Gray. Iam under the necessity of giving a name to 
this little known but apparently very distinct species. It is fig- 
ured by Hooker in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 4931, as R. 
subvestitum Hook. and Arn., from a Californian plant sent by 
the late Mr. Lobb (whether seeds or young plants is not men- 
tioned, probably seeds) to his employers, Messrs. Veitch and Son. 
But the only specimens I have seen are one, exactly agreeing with 
the plate, from Kew, ticketed “ Vancouver’s Island, Wood,” and 
another, from the Willamette, in the same region, collected by 
Mr. Howell. It should be particularly looked for.in California, 
north of San Francisco Bay, and along the coast to British Colum- 
bia. Perhaps the Californian habitat is an error. The species 
may be distinguished by its dark, purplish-red calyx of half an 
inch in length, not counting the ovary, nearly white petals half 
the length of the stamens, very glandular but unarmed ovary, 
and especially by the short, oval, and very blunt anthers, which 
are dotted with a few warty glands on the back. These short 
and blunt anthers are shared with all the preceding species, but 
not with the following. 
R. Menziesii Pursh, well marked by its sagittate anthers, 
with a mucronate tip. The flowers are as large as in the preced- 
ing, or considerably larger, but variable in this respect, and of a 
similar purplish-red color; and the berry is large and prickly, 
usually densely, sometimes sparsely so; the prickles sometimes 
strong and spiny, sometimes shorter, bristle-like, and when young 
gland-tipped. It extends from the southern part of Oregon 
through the whole length of California, and varies exceedingly. 
R. subvestitum Hook. and Arn., as to all the specimens of 
Douglas, on which it was founded, is a form of the species not 
far removed from the typical. R. Californicum and R. occiden- 
tale Hook. and Arn. seem different enough in the original and 
in many other specimens, being very small-leaved and mainly 
glabrous. I had formerly (in the fourth volume of the Pacific 
Railroad Explorations) united these two with R. subvestitum. 
I am now of opinion that all are forms of R. Menziesii. ) y 
are, however, commended to the notice of native Califorman 
botanists, : 
R. speciosum Pursh. The scarlet-flowered gooseberry of Cali- 
fornia is so distinct that a separate section has been provided for 
it. Besides the bright color and ample size of the flowers, its 
calyx-lobes do not turn back, and are often only four ; the stamens 
protrude for an inch or more, and the rather dry berry is few- 
