SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. 



Calyx greenish, glabrous exteriorly; soft bristles of the ovary non- 

 glandular 6. J2. California' ni. 



Calyx purplish, glandular-pubescent exteriorly; hairs of the ovary 

 capitate-glandular 7. R. Mcnziesii. 



1. R. aureum Pursh var. tenuiflorum. Shrub 4 to 8 ft. high, 

 nearly glabrous, not glandular; leaves 3 to 5-lobed, obtuse or truncate 

 at base, the lobes few-toothed or incised; racemes about 1 in. long, 

 loose, witb few to several flowers, the bracts foliaceous and conspicu- 

 ous; flowers golden yellow; calyx-tube salverforni, $ to 4 times the 

 length of the oval lobes; berry yellowish, 2 lines long. — (R. tenui- 

 florum Lindl.) 



Wild-cat Creek, acc. to Behr, and southward in the Oakland Hills; 

 also in the Sierra Nevada. 



2. R. sanguineum Pursh var. glutinosum Brew. & Wats. 

 Flowering Currant. 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 3 lines 

 long, with 2 bractlets at apex; calyx reddish, the lobes elliptic, 

 spreading; petals obovate, 1£ lines long, white, changing to deep 

 red; stamens and style not surpassing the petals; berries blue-black., 

 with bloom, 4 lines in diameter. — (R. glutinosum Benth.) 



Common near the coast in canons or on northward slopes. 

 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; flowers rose-color or 

 very pale pink; berry glaucous, somewhat hispidulous or hairy, the 

 pulp soft and sweet. 



Open hills about Berkeley or in deep canons of the Vaca Mountains. 

 Dec. -Jan., fruiting as early as Mar. Mr. H. A. Dutton, of Stanford 

 University, notes that the racemes of this are usually erect, while 

 those of R. sanguineum are drooping. 



4. R. divaricatum Dougl. Straggly Gooseberry. Four to <) 

 ft. high, with long straggling branches; bark dull gray; herbage 

 glandular when young; subaxillary spines 3 or more often 1; leaves 

 roundish, palmately 3 to 5-cleft, the divisions incised or crenately 

 toothed; petioles shorter or longer than the blades; racemes drooping; 

 pedicels slender, J 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. 



Common in shaded canons and flats from Southern California 

 northward, mostly near the coast: San Francisco; Oakland Hills; 

 Marin Co. Feb. 



5. R. Victoris Greene. Victor's Gooseberry. Low bush. 



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