Class V. Order I. 91 



RIBES CYNOSBATI. Prickly Gooseberry. 



Subaxillary thorns about two ; leaves lobed, cut 

 and toothed, downy ; racemes nodding, few flower- 

 ed ; calyxes erect, campanulate ; fruit prickly. 



Subaxillary spines from one to three. Petioles downy. Leaves 

 soft and downy on both sides, cleft into three or five lobes, which 

 are cut and toothed. Racemes few flowered. Calyx whitish, 

 bell shaped, contracted at the mouth, the segments reflexed. 

 Petals very small, obovate ; germ hispid. Berry covered with 

 long prickles so as to resemble a burr. Woods. Walpole, Han- 

 over, N. H. June. 



RIBES LACUSTRE. Pers. Swamp Gooseberry. 



Subaxillary thorns few ; stem hispid-aculeate ; 

 leaves divided into lobes beyond the middle ; petioles 

 villous ; berries racemose, hispid. 



A handsome shrub with dissected leaves. The older branches 

 are smooth with one or more deflexed axillary spires. Young- 

 branches hispid with small reflexed prickles. Petioles slender, 

 villous, with fine scattered hairs. Leaves deeply live lobed, the 

 lobes cut and toothed, like those of some Geraniums. Peduncles 

 slender, hispid. Fruit on rather long pedicels, hispid. In the 

 Notch of the White mountains, by the side of the Saco river. 



97. CEANOTHUS. 



CSANOTHUS AMERICANA. L. Jersey Tea. 



Leaves heart-ovate, acuminate, triply nerved ; pan- 

 icles axillary, elongated. Willd. 



A small white flowering shrub, not unfrequent in dry or sandy 

 soils. Leaves two or three inches long, and one broad, finely 

 serrate and tapering into a long point. From the axils of the 

 upper leaves come out leafless branches bearing crowded bunch- 

 es of minute white flowers, on very slender white pedicels. 

 Calyx segments five, indexed between the petals. Petals hood- 

 ed at the end, on slender claws which project, together with the 

 stamens, between the segments of the calyx. Nectary a small 

 dark green circle around the germ. Stamens opposite the pe- 



