422 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



hairy. Peduncles slender, nodding, pubescent. Fruit dark purple, unpleasant 

 to the taste. This species differs from the other native gooseberries in its 

 many-flowered racemes. — Flora. 



Dr. Bigelow describes it as a handsome shrub with dissected leaves. The 

 older branches are smooth, with one or more deflexed, axillary spines. Young 

 branches hispid, with small, reflexed prickles. Petioles slender, villous, with 

 scattered hairs. Leaves deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes cut and toothed like those 

 of some geraniums. — Florula, 91. 



Striking for its very deeply cut leaves. 



Found in mountainous swamps from New York and Massachusetts, north to 

 near the Arctic circle ; and in the mountains of Oregon and California. — Flora. 



Sp. 5. The Large -flowering Currant. R. Jioridum. L'Heritier. 



Leaves sprinkled on both sides with resinous dots, sharply 3 — 5-lobed, sub- 

 cordate; the lobes acute, doubly serrate ; racemes pendulous, pubescent ; bracts 

 linear, longer than the pedicels; calyx tubular-bell-shaped, glabrous; the seg- 

 ments oblong-spatulate, about the length of the tube ; style undivided ; fruit 

 ovoid-globose, black, glabrous. — Flora, N. A., I, 549. 



Dr. Bigelow says of it : This is a common wild currant, having its leaves 

 generally in five lobes, toothed at the edge and covered on both surfaces with 

 small, whitish, glandular points, just visible to the naked eye. Petioles fringed 

 with compound hairs. Racemes pendulous, downy, many-flowered. Calyx 

 tubular-campanulate, with recurved segments. Petals greenish-white, straight, 

 a little reflexed at point. Fruit black, watery and insipid. "Woods. May. — 

 Florula, 90. 



Found in woods from Canada, in latitude 54°, to Virginia and Kentucky. — 

 Flora. 



Sp. 6. The Mountain Currant. R. prostrdlum. L'Heritier. 



Stems reclined ; leaves deeply cordate, glabrous, 5 — 7-lobed ; the lobes 

 somewhat ovate, acute, incisely doubly serrate; racemes erect, slender ; bracts 

 small, much shorter than the bristly, glandular pedicels; calyx rotate, the seg- 

 ments obovate ; style deeply 2-cleft ; petals spatulate, very small ; ovaries and 

 fruit clothed with glandular bristles ; fruit roundish, red. — Flora, N. A. 549. 



Dr. Bigelow describes it : Stem procumbent, rooting. Leaves mostly five- 

 lobed, toothed, smooth on both sides, the veins of the younger ones pubescent 

 beneath. Racemes erect, the peduncles and germ covered with glandular hairs. 

 Calyx hemispherical, the segments patulous, greenish with purple strke. Pe- 

 tals wedge-shaped, shorter than the calyx. Stamens converging, anthers 

 black. Style as long as the stamens, bifid. Berries hairy. 



The berries when bruised have the odor of Skunk's Cabbage. — Fit rula, 90 



Found on hills and rocky places from Newfoundland, and throughout Can- 

 ada, from latitude 57°, to Pennsylvania, and west to Lake Superior and the 

 Rocky Mountain?. — Flora. 



