602 GROSSULARIACEAE 
finish of houses, for boxes and utensils. The leaf-blades are sometimes 
7-lobed. 
Famity 10. GROSSULARIACEAE—Goosrperry FAMILY 
Shrubs, often spiny. Leaves alternate: blades usually palmately 
lobed or cleft. Flowers borne in racemes, which are sometimes reduced to 
few flowers, or to a single flower. Calyx of 5 sepals borne on the 
hypanthium. Corolla of 5 relatively small petals. Androecium of 
stamens. Gynoecium of 2 partially united carpels: ovary with 2 parietal 
placentae: styles more or less united. Fruit a many-seeded berry.—Three 
genera and about 130 species, widely distributed. 
Flower-stalk jointed beneath the ovary: berry disarticulating from the pedicel. 
Flower-stalk not jointed beneath the va berry not disarticu- aid 
lating from the pedicel. 2. GROSSULARIA. 
1. RIBES L. Shrubs with erect stems and branches, without nodal 
spines. Leaf-blades palmately veined and lobed. Flowers solitary or few to- 
gether, borne on stalks which are join 
beneath the ovary. Berry disarticu aie 
from the stalk.—About 65 species, nativ 
of the ios tem eere zone, Mexieo, nee 
South America.—CURRANTS. 
. R. glandulosum Grauer. Decumbent dif- 
fuse shrub: leaf- ae Bus bars. r E 
racemes with rem and minute 
ovate braets: 22 n ium poa rt, ieee aa 
3 mm. long: sepals rhombic- obovate, 2.5— 
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MOUNTAIN-CURRANT.)—Deep woods, Blue 
Ridge and more N provinces, N. C. to Colo., Sask., Mich., and Lab. 
R. osum Pursh, described in the first edition of Flora of the South- 
ning United States, from specimens supposed to have been collected in the 
mountains of North Carolina i Fraser, seems to be Ribes orientale Desf. of 
Asia. 
2. GROSSULARIA Mil. Shrubs with irregular arching or recurved 
stems and branches, and with noda l apa Leaf-bla des palmately veined. 
Flowers in drooping racemes or pan ost on stalks whieh are jointed 
near the base. Petals white or dors Hn e. Berry not disarticulating from 
the stalk.—About 60 species, natives of the north temperate zone.—Spr.— 
fruits are sometimes used for preserves.—GOOSEBERRIES. 
Sepals longer than the free part of the hypanthium: stamens exserted. 
nd smooth and glabrous: petals not tubular. I. ROTUNDIFOLIAE. 
erry echinate, the spines gland-tipped : petals tubular. II, ECHINELLAE. 
Sepals shorter than the free part of the hypanthium : stamens 
neluded. IIT. CxNOSBaTI. 
I. ROTUNDIFOLIAE 
Filaments pubescent: hypanthium glandular. 1. G. curvata. 
Filaments glabrous : hypanthium glandless. 
