Canyon Gooseberry

Grossularia leptosma Coville, sp. nov
A shrub 1-1.6 m. high, the young twigs sparingly bristly, sometimes densely so, often without bristles ; nodal spines subulate-acicular, 2 cm. long or less. Leaves suborbicular in outline, cordate or truncate at the base, thin, not rugose, 5 cm. wide or less, 3-S-lobed, crenate-dentate, scantily pubescent on both sides, or glabroiis above, the lower surface with usually nearly sessile glands and sometimes some stalked ones on the principal veins ; petiole glandular-hairy and pubescent, about as long as the blade ; flowers 1 to 3 together, the glandular and pubescent peduncle as long as the petioles or shorter ; bracts ovate, usually shorter than the pedicels ; ovary densely glandular-bristly ; hypanthium pubescent and with stalked glands, greenish-purple, 2.5-3.5 mm. long ; sepals purple or greenish-purple, lanceolate, about three times as long as the hypanthium ; petals broad, white, erose-truncate, about three-fifths as long as the filaments ; stamens equaling the sepals, the anthers lanceolate, mucronate, about 2 mm. long ; berry oval or globose, densely glandular-bristly, about 1.5 cm. in diameter.
Type collected in Bear Valley, Marin County, California, March 31, 1894, J. Burtt Davy 696, and identified by Professor Edward L. Greene as Ribes subvesiitumH. & A. That plant, however, is the same as R. Menziesii Pursh.
Distribution : Middle California.