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ting into 3 to 5 one-seeded portions. (Lieut. A. W. Whipple, com¬ 
mander of the Pacific Railroad Expedition from the Mississippi River to 
Los Angeles in 1853 and 1854.) 
1. W. modesta Torr. Leaves ovate or oval-ovate, crenate above the 
middle, 1.8 to 4.2 cm. long, short-petioled; clusters 4 to 9-flowered, the 
flowers soon turning greenish ; petals oblong or ovate, exceeding 2 mm. ; 
pod globose.—Coast Range woods. 
5. RIBES L. 
Shrubs with alternate palmately lobed leaves. Flowers in racemes or 
solitary, the pedicels with bractlets. Calyx-lobes, petals and stamens 
commonly 5. Calyx-tube adnate to the 1-celled ovary and commonly pro¬ 
duced beyond it. Styles 2, distinct or partly united. Fruit a berry. 
(Ancient Arabic name.) 
Stems unarmed ; raceme many-flowered; berry spineless.— Currants. 
Flowers pink or red ; leaves pubescent or tomentulose below. 
Style glabrous; leaves thinnish.1. R. sanguineum. 
Style pubescent; leaves thickish.2. R. malvaceum. 
Flowers greenish-white ; leaves resinous-dotted below. 3.R. bracteosum. 
Stems thorny and often prickly; raceme mostly 1 to few-flowered.— Gooseberries. 
Flowers 5-merous; petals much shorter than calyx-lobes. 
Petals plane ; stems spiny ; berry unarmed. 4. R. divarication. 
Petals involute ; berry prickly. 
Stems prickly. 
Leaves glabrous or nearly so and non-glandular; ovary with 
mostly equal non-glandular bristles ....5. R. californicum. 
Leaves mostly pubescent and mostly glandular below; ovary 
with long and short more or less gland-tipped bristles.... 
6. R. menziesii. 
Stems not prickly .7. R. amarum. 
Flowers 4-merous, showy ; petals as long as calyx-lobes.8. R. speciosum. 
1. R. sanguineum Pursh. Flowering Currant. Erect or strag¬ 
gling shrub 1.4 to 2.5 m. high; herbage more or less glandular-pubes¬ 
cent ; leaves round-cordate, shallowly lobed, finely serrate; racemes erect, 
2.4 to 7.2 cm. long with spatulate or obovate colored bracts; pedicels 
with 2 caducous bractlets at apex; calyx red or reddish, 1.2 cm. long; 
petals white changing to deep red; stamens and style not surpassing the 
petals; berry blue-black, with bloom, sparingly glandular-hirsutulose.— 
High montane. Var. glutinosum B. & W. Racemes drooping.— 
In canons or northward slopes near the coast. 
2. R. malvaceum Smith. More strictly erect and compact shrub; 
leaves conspicuously rugulose; racemes usually erect; ovary white-hairy; 
berry-pulp sweet.—Dry interior hills. 
3. R. bracteosum Dougl. Stink Currant. Stems 1 to 2.3 m. high; 
herbage almost glabrous ; leaves round-cordate in outline, deeply 5 to 
7-lobed, doubly serrate, 7.2 to 24 cm. broad, long-petioled; racemes slen¬ 
der, erect or ascending, 4.8 to 12 cm. long; calyx above ovary rotate or 
saucer-shaped, without distinct tube; petals less than 2 mm. long; berry 
black,, resinous-dotted.—Mendocino Co. and n. 
4. R. divaricatum Dougl. Straggly Gooseberry. Straggling shrub 
11.5 to 17 dm. high; spines at the nodes 1 (or 3) ; leaves roundish, pal¬ 
mately 3 to 5-cleft, the lobes incised and serrate; racemes drooping; pedi¬ 
cels slender, 1.2 cm. long; sepals broadly oblong, green without, dull 
