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lobes coarsely crenate and the crenature uneven; apiculate-dentate, gland- 

 ular-ciliate, more or less glandular: racemes erect, usually 10-2u-flowered : 

 bracts herbaceous, lanceolate to obovate, 1-3 lines long, equalling or 

 shorter t an the slender pedicels; calyx saucer-shaped, the obiong 

 lobes spreading, yellow dotted with red", \% lines long; petals broadly 

 spatulate, glabrous; K~/^ as lon g as tne calyx-lobes; filaments glabrous, 

 equalling the petals, style glabrous, 2-parted: fruit scarlet, 4-5 lines long, 

 subpyriform to spherical, glandular. Common on Mount Mazama around 

 Crater Lake, Oregon. 



R. bracteosum Dougl. Hook. Fl i, 233. Stems ascending, 2-8 feet 

 long: leaves long-petioled, cordate, 7-3 inches in diameter, deeply 5-7- 

 lobed, the lobes acuminate, coarsely and doubly serrate or incised, resinous 

 dotted beneath : pedicels 6-12 inches long, loosely many -flowered; bracts 

 foliaceous, lanceolate to linear, the lower ones broad and petioled the upper 

 reduced and sessile, all as long or longer than the pedicels ; calyx rotate, 

 the purplish oblong lobes nearly 2 lines long: petals broadlv cuneiform, 

 rounded at the apex, less than a line long; style shorter than the petals, 

 deeply cleft; fruit black, resinous dotted. Common along mountain 

 streams in deep shade, Alaska to California. 



R. Hudsonianum Richard. Franklin Journ 2 ed. 6. Stems erect, 4- 

 6 feet high; leaves round-cordate in outline, 2-4 inches in diameter, smooth 

 above, resinous dotted beneath, 3-5-lobed, the k'bes acute, coarsely and 

 doubly serrate: racemes erect, with or without a few small leaves at base, 

 2-4 inches long, many-flowered; bracts setaceous, much shorter than the 

 pedicels; calyx campanulate deeply 5-parted, the obloug obtuse lobes more 

 than a line long; petals oblong, minute; style glabrous, deeply cleft: fruit 

 globose, resinous dotted. Along mountain streams, Brit. Columbia to 

 Eastern Washington. 



§ 3. Grossularia Tourn. as genus. (G-ooseberry). Stems 

 usually armed with subaxillary spines and often prickly : leaves 

 plicate in the bud: peduncles (except in the first) 1-4-flowered : 

 calyx more or less campanulate : ovules very numerous, in sev- 

 eral rows: berries often prickly. 



* Calyx-tube saucer-shaped, spreading immediately above the 

 ovary: peduncles racemously several-flowered: anthers" very short, 

 pointless berries small and currant-like, sparingly bristly-glandular. 



R. lacustre Poir. Suppl ii, 856. Stems prostrate or ascending, 3-4 

 feet long, very prickly when young; subaxillary spines several, weak and 

 scarcely differing from the prickles : leaves cordate, 3-5-parted, the lobes 

 deeply incised and toothed, the teeth bristly apiculate, 6-18 lines long; 

 petioles slender, 12 inches long ciliate with long brownish bristles: racemes 

 5-9-flowered; calyx rotate; stamens about the length of the petals; styles 

 short glabrous, 2-cleft; ovary glandular-hispid ; fruit small, black/ In 

 cold mountain marshes and along streams, Alaska to California and the 

 Atlantic States and Canada. 



R. molle R. lacustre var moVe Gray Bot. Cal. i, 206. Stems 1-4 feet 

 high, intricately much branched: young shoots often nrickly: subaxillarv 

 spines triple or multiple, rigid: leaves round-cordate in outline, 6-12 lines 

 in diameter. 3-5-parted, the divisions 3-lobed and incisely toothed, soft- 

 pubescent and sparingly glandular both sides : racemes 1-9 flowered short- 

 peduncled; bracts ovate, acute, as long as the pedicels; flowers greenish- 

 white, the open calyx three lines in diameter, its short lobes rounded ; 

 petals small; stamens ve#y short: berries light red, not larger than peas. 

 On rocky ridges in the mountains of Southeastern Oregon to California. 



