Ribes cruentum Greene

Grossularia cruenta (Greene) Coville & Britton
Ribes cruentum Greene, Pittonia 4 : 35. 1899.
Ribes amictum cruentum Jancz. M^m. Soc. Gendve 35 : 366. 1907.
Stems glabrous throughout, or the younger twigs, young petioles, and hypanthium puberulent; nodal spines acicular, 1-1.5 cm.^ long. Leaves reniform to orbicular, small, 1-2.5 cm. wide, mostly 3-lobed, crenate-dentate, the slender petioles mostly shorter than the blades ; flowers solitary or two together, on peduncles usually shorter than the leaves ; bracts clasping, veiny, erose, sometimes ciliate, longer than the pedicels ; ovary bristly and sometimes with a few stalked glands ; hypanthium cylindric-campanulate, crimson, 5-7 mm, long and about 3 mm. thick; sepals lanceolate, crimson; petals white or pink, involute, erose or laciniate, about half as long as the sepals, a little shorter than the filaments ; anthers lanceolate to ovate, about 2.5 mm. long ; berry densely spiny.
Type locality: California, Coast Range from^Sonoma County northward. Distribution : Middle California to southern Oregon. Perhaps a glabrate race of the following species.