fie petiolare Dougl. Wild Black Currant. A dense shrub about 1 m 
- tall, stoloniferous, the-stems decumbent or reclining, bark fuscous or ches t- 
nut-brown, longitudinally striate and flaking lightly or smooth, ultimate 
branches erect or ascending, stiffish, more or less Canelike, entire th, 
bark grey, the new-srowth becoming old straw-color in late summer, sparsely 
glandularywith sessile glands; buds green, oblong, sub-acute, scale margins 
Ciliolate, the tips glandular; leaves 5-14 em broad, mostly about 10 cm., 
cordate at the base, the sinus open, the lobes rounded, 5-lobed, the lowermost 
obscure, the lateral rather widely divergent, all ovate, rather obtuse, upper 
surface dull sreen, the lower sparingly villous and bearing golden sessile 
glands; petioles 1-lg times as long as the blades, slender, crispulous, ¢land- 
ular-dotted, sometimes reddish, Substipular at the base and Slightly decurrent, ~ 
£hb margins with a few branching hairs 2-3 mn. long; racemes ascending, 8-15 cm. 
ion; or more, many flowered, the bracts ovate, linear or subulate, crispulous, 
deciduous, 2-4 mae lons, pedicels 3-5 m. long; calyx campanulate, the tube 
about 1 mm. long, the ovary broadly obconical, glandular, the lobes Oblong, 
White, crispulous on the back; petals white, obcuneate or subflabelliform, 1.5 
qd) me long; stamens 1.5 mm long, the filaments narrowly subulate; styles joined 
. to the middle or more; berry black, 7-9 mm. in diameter, with a dull lustre, 
beset with golden ¢lands;: seeds Ovoid, 1.5 mm long. 
Frequent throughout our region except in the Kootenai and Priest river 
drainages, 2500-4000 feet, rarely as hich as 5500 feet,founa Chiefly along the 
margins of streams in the more open valleys and meadows, where it frequently 
forms dense mats and tangles, the stems submerged at high water: abundant 
locally. It may readily be recognized by the pungent and characteristic odor 
of the crushed foliage, similar to that of the black currant of commerce. 
