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a brown viscid scentless glutinous substance, which when 

 exposed to the sun, acquires a rough, hardened, waxy, warty 

 appearance. The leaves are nearly round, bluntly three- 

 lobed, crenate, scarcely an inch long, of a leathery texture 

 and almost veinless, clothed on the upper surface with white 

 and (in dry weather) hardened waxy minute granulations, 

 quite smooth below ; footstalks somewhat longer than the 

 leaves. The clusters are dense, of the same length as the 

 leaves, three or five-flowered, slightly pubescent, hanging in 

 great profusion below the branches, with scarcely any partial 

 footstalks ; bracteas wedge-shaped, glandular and toothed at 

 the apex. The calyx is tubular, imperfectly four-sided, white, 

 pink at the base, three-fourths of an inch long, with rounded, 

 short, reflected segments double the length of the minute 

 somewhat kidney shaped petals. Filaments, same length as 

 the petals ; style slightly cloven. Berry spherical, small, 

 red and glossy, thin-skinned, rarely containing more than 

 three large seeds and a great quantity of insipid, viscid, 

 red juice. 



This species in point of beauty cannot be compared to the 

 fragrant flowered R. aureum, and its varieties, nor can it vie 

 with the gaudy inflorescence of R. sanguineum. It blossoms 

 at the same season and with equal profusion, is equally hardy 

 and as readily cultivated. 



On dry exposed decayed granite rocks or schist, throughout 

 the chain of the river Columbia from the Great Falls 45° 46' 

 17" N. Lat. to the source of that stream in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, 52° 07' 09" this is a common shrub, flowering in March 

 and April, and ripening its fruit in June. 



Seeds were received in October 1826, and, under the 



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