Grossularia tularensis

Grossularia tularensis Coville, sp. nov
Stems trailing ; young twigs with villous pubescence and weak gland-tipped bristles ; nodal spines triple, 1 cm. or less in length, stramineous to light-brown. Leaf-blades 25 cm. broad, orbicular-ovate, cordate at the base, 3-5-cleft, the lobes incised and dentate, villous and glandular-hairy on both surfaces like the petioles ; peduncles 1-2 cm. long, villous and glandular-hairy, mostly 1-flowered ; bracts orbicular-obovate, usually lobed, 24 mm. long; pedicels usually shorter than the bracts ; ovary bristly and glandular-hairy ; hypanthium 2-3 mm. in length, about as broad as long, green, villous ; sepals green, linear-oblong, about 6 mm. in length, villous ; petals 4-5 mm. long ; stamens equaling the petals, the anthers 2 mm. in length, oblong-ovate, obtuse; styles smooth, about as long as the sepals ; berry about 1 cm. in diameter, covered with stramineous spines.
Type collected at Giant Forest, Tulare County, California, August, 1905, Katharine Brandegee.