Ribes gracillimum

Ribes gracillimum Coville & Britton, sp. nov
Glabrous or very nearly so throughout, sometimes with a few hairs on the petiole -bases, much branched, the young twigs gray, the older branches brown. Leaves ovate to suborbicular in outline, at flowering time not over 2 cm. wide, rather thin in texture, 3-lobed and sparingly dentate, mostly cuneate, but some of them subtruncate at the base, the slender petioles as long as the blades or shorter, often bearing very small sessile glands ; racemes 5-15-flowered, 5 cm. long or less, short-peduncled ; bracts ovate to elliptic, 5-9 mm. long, mostly equaling or longer than the pedicels ; hypanthium 6-8 mm. long ; sepals oval, 3-4 mm. long ; petals obovate, erose, about two thirds as long as the sepals.
Type collected at Stanford University, California, April, 1901, A. D. E. Elmer 3025. Distribution : Central and southern California.