Protologue Description: RIBES OXYCANTHOIDES, L. , var. calciola. Resembling the species but young branches, petioles, and lower leaf-surfaces permanently and densely white tomentose. - Calcareous soils of the Bonaventure and Gaspé Counties, QUEBEC: Arbor-Vitae swamp, Carleton, July 27, 1904, trap cliffs near summit of Tracadigash Mt., July 24, 1904, Arbor-vitae swamps at the mounth of the Boaventure River, August 2, 1904 - type (J.F. Collins, M.L. Fernald & A.S. Pease); also noted in similar habitats at New Richmond, Grand River and Percé, and upon the Little Cascapedia and dartmouth Rivers. A flowering specimen in the Gray Herbarium may belong here.