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torrents from higher altitudes of the mountains, among cop- 

 pice wood on the western base of the Rocky Mountains, from 

 the 48° to the 52° N. Lat. this species is frequently met with, 

 and it is equally common on similar altitudes and situations 

 in the high mountains of North- West America. 



I brought seeds of this species to England in October 1827. 

 The bushes grow luxuriantly in the Society's Garden, but 

 they have not flowered as yet. 



5. R. divaricatum: ramis divaricatis setosis, aculeis 1-3 axillaribus dcflexis, 

 foliis subrotundis 3-lobis inciso-dcntatis nervosis glabris, pedunculis 3-floris nutan- 

 tibus, calyce campanulato: laciniis linearibus reflexis tubo dupLfrlongioribus, stylo 

 staminibusque exsertis, baccis glabris. 



A robust bush, of erect habit, six or eight feet high, with 

 divaricated branches, the younger ones sparingly and une- 

 qually clothed with minute, bristle-shaped prickles, and hav- 

 ing one or three large, strong, deflexed prickles, under each 

 bud. The leaves are rounded, three-lobed, coarsely cut, 

 toothed, smooth and veiny, about an inch long ; the footstalks 

 somewhat shorter, with a few scattered hairs near their base. 

 The clusters droop below the branches, are three or five- 

 flowered, shorter than the leaves, slender and smooth, with 

 rounded subamplexicaul bractece. The calyx is bell-shaped, 

 yellowish-green, with linear brownish-red, reflected segments, 

 which are double the length of the tube. Petals wedge- 

 shaped, white, half the length of the limb. The stamens are 

 exserted beyond the calyx, half an inch long. Style conside- 

 rably longer than the stamens, semi-bifid, spreading, villous. 

 Berry spherical, smooth, one third of an inch in diameter, 

 black, pleasant to the taste. 



