GOOSEBERRY FAMILY 399 



outline, pubescent and glandular on both sides, 5-8 cm. broad; lobes rounded, 

 short and broad, crenate; racemes spreading or ascending, few-flowered; bracts 

 oblanceolate, entire; hypanthium cylindro-campanulate, 6-7 mm. long, greenish 

 or pinkish ; sepals oblong, obtuse, about as long as the hypanthium ; berry black, 

 about 1 cm. in diameter. Mountain woods: B.C. Mont. Colo. Calif. Sub- 

 mont. Mont. My-Jl. 



11. R. reniforme Nutt. A robust shrub, usually 1.5-2.5 m. high, with 

 glabrous shoots; leaf-blades reniform-orbicular, 2.5-5 cm. wide, not pubescent, 

 glandular-pruinose on both sides; racemes 4-7-flowered, nearly as long as the 

 leaves, glabrous; bracts light green, rhombic or obovate, nearly entire, glandular; 

 tube of the hypanthium cream- white, about 8 mm. long, with stalked glands, 

 but not pubescent; sepals oblong, recurved; petals white, reniform-orbicular; 

 styles glabrous; fruit 6-8 mm. in diameter. Dry hills: Mont. -Wash. Ore. 

 Submont. Ap-Je. 



12. R. cereum Lindl. A much branched shrub, 1 m. high or less, the young 

 shoots finely puberulent; leaf -blades round-reniform, 1-4 cm. wide, puberulent 

 and somewhat glandular, the lobes rounded, crenate; racemes short, puberulent, 

 few-flowered, drooping; hypanthium-tube cylindric, pubescent, 6-8 mm. long, 

 white, greenish, or cream-colored; sepals ovate, about 2 mm. long; petals minute, 

 orbicular; fruit bright red, 6-7 mm. in diameter. Dry hills: Calif. -Utah 

 Mont. B.C. Son. Submont. My-Jl. 



13. R. inebrians Lindl. A low scraggling shrub, 0.5-1 m. high; leaf -blades 

 round-reniform, 1-3 cm. wide, the lobes rounded, crenate; racemes few-flowered, 

 pendulous, puberulent and usually glandular; tube of the hypanthium 5-8 mm. 

 long, usually pink or pinkish; sepals ovate, acutish; fruit 6-8 mm. in diameter. 

 R. pumilum Nutt. Dry hills: S.D. w Neb. N.M. Ariz. Ida. Plain 

 Submont. My-Jl. 



4. CHRYSOBOTRYA Spach. FLOWERING, GOLDEN, MISSOURI, OR 



BUFFALO CURRANTS. 



Unarmed erect shrubs. Leaves palmately veined, palmately 3-5-lobed, 

 convolute in vernation. Inflorescence racemose, several-flowered; pedicels 

 jointed beneath the flower. Flowers perfect, slightly irregular. Hypanthium 

 well developed, yellow, tubular, slightly oblique. Petals erose or denticulate at 

 the apex. Fruit a berry, disarticulating from the pedicel. 



Sepals less than half as long as the hypanthium-tube. 1. C. odorata. 



Sepals more than half as long as the hypanthium-tube. 2. C. aurea. 



1. C. odorata (Wendl.) Rydb. A shrub 1-2 m. high, with pubescent young 

 shoots and gray bark on the old stems; leaves obovate or suborbicular in outline, 

 cuneate at the base, 2-5 cm. broad, deeply 3-5-lobed and coarsely dentate, gla- 

 brous on both sides; racemes 4-8-flowered; bracts ovate or oval, longer than the 

 pubescent pedicels; hypanthium 10-15 mm. long; petals 2-3 mm. long, erose; 

 berry black, globose, about 8 mm. in diameter. Ribes odoratum Wendl. R. 

 longiflorum Nutt. Chrysobotrya reioluta Spach. Hillsides: S.D. Tex. Plain. 



2. C. aurea (Pursh) Rydb. Erect shrub, 1-2 m. high; leaves reniform- 

 orbicular to obovate in outline, firm, 3-5-lobed and dentate, from cuneate to sub- 

 cordate at the base, 3-5 cm. broad, glabrous or essentially so; racemes 5-15- 

 flowered; bracts oblong or obovate, 5-12 mm. long; tube of the hypanthium 

 6-10 mm. long; petals oblong, erose, yellow, often tipped with red; fruit black, 

 red, or amber-yellow, 6-8 mm. in diameter. Ribes aureum Pursh. Chrysobotrya 

 Lindleyana and C. intermedia Spach. Hills and river banks: Wash. Sask. 

 S.D.N.M. Calif. Submont. 



FAMILY 60. ROSACEAE. ROSE FAMILY. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, usually with alternate leaves and stipules. Flow- 

 ers perfect, rarely dioecious or monoecious, regular or nearly so. Hypan- 

 thium usually well developed, from flat or saucer-shaped to urn-shaped, 



