Victor's Gooseberry

Grossularia greeneiana (Heller) Coville & Britton
Ribes Greeneian-um Heller, Muhlenbergia 1 : 111. 1905.
A shrub 3.5 m. high or less, the bark brownish-gray, glabrous ; young twigs densely bristly, the bristles deciduous ; nodal spines acicular, 1.5 cm. long or less. Leaves orbicular or ovate-orbicular in outline, cordate, glandular -hairy on both surfaces, and softly pubescent beneath, 2-4 cm. broad, 3-5-lobed, the lobes coarsely crenate, the pubescent and glandular petiole usually somewhat shorter than the blade ; flowers solitary or 2 together, nodding ; peduncle glandular and pubescent, 2-3 cm. long; pedicels much shorter than the peduncle, only 3 or 4 mm. long ; bract suborbicular, thin, ciliate, shorter than the pedicels ; hypanthium nearly white, about 3 mm. long and thick, glandular-pubescent; sepals greenish-white, oblong-lanceolate, acutish, about 7 or 8 mm. long, glandular-pubescent; petals white, truncate, about 4 mm. long, involute; filaments as long as the sepals or a little longer, flattened at the base; anthers lanceolate, about 2.5 mm. long; ovary densely glandular-hairy ; style slightly exceeding the stamens, 2-cleft ; berry oval, about 1.5 cm. long, very densely covered with weak gland-tipped bristles.
Type locality : Vacaville, Solano County, California. Distribution : Type locality and vicinity.

Grossularia victoris (Greene) Coville & Britton
Rihes Victoris Greene, Pittonia 1 : 224. 1888.
Ribes Menziesii Vic lor is Jancz. M^m. Soc. Geneve 35: 363. 1907.
Ribes Menziesii minus Jancz. M^m. Soc. Geneve 35 : 363. 1907.
A shrub about 2 m. high, the young twigs varying from densely bristly to nearly or quite smooth, puberulent and somewhat viscid; nodal spines acicular, widely diverging, 1-2 cm. long. Leaves suborbicular in outline, 5 cm. wide or less, thin, 3-lobed or 5-lobed, cordate at the base, loosely glandular-hairy, and often very sparingly villous also, on both surfaces, the lobes coarsely crenate, the petiole as long as the blade or shorter ; flowers solitary or 2 together, nodding; peduncles slender, pubescent and glandular, 1.5-2 cm. long; pedicels only about 3 mm. long, about as long as the orbicular-erose or entire glandular bracts; hypanthium greenishwhite, densely glandular, about 3 mm. long and nearly as thick as long ; sepals white, linear-oblong, 6-11 mm. long, recurved ; petals acutish and erose ; filaments shorter than the sepals, often scarcely exceeding the petals ; anthers oblongovate, 2-3 mm. long ; ovary glandular-pubescent ; berry oval, dark-colored, about 2 cm. long^ 1.5 cm. in diameter, densely glandular-bristly.
Type locality : Near the base of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, California. Distribution : Middle California.