4. Re viscosissimun Pursh. Sticky Currant. Erect shrub 1g2 m. tall 
the stems several or numerous from a woody crown, decumbent or ascending; 
bark grey, roughened by numerous lenticels, the new growth green, glandular 
with stalked glands, finely crispulous, becoming light brown, splitting or 
flaking away the second or third year; buds 6-7 mm. long, ovoid, green, pub- 
erulent and viscid; leaves usually with a peppery aromatic odor when crushed 
petioles subequal to or shorter than the blades, crispulous and beset with : 
stalked glands, dilated and membranous at the base, substipular, the margins 
bearing a few plumose hairs; blades reniform or rotund, commonly 5-7 cme 
broad, cordate or sometimes truncate at the base, the sinus broad, 5-lobed 
the lowermost obscure, all obtuse or rounded, both surfaces, pubescent and : 
glandular with stalked glands, usually sticky, the margin commonly doubly crenates> q 
serrate; racemes spreading glandular, mostly 5-9 flowered, the bracts 8-9 mm. 3 
long, obovate or cuneate, toothed, glandular and hairy, pedicels 5-10 mm. long; 
ovary densely glandular-hispid, the calyx greenish-white tinged with purple, 
bell-shaped, 7-12 mm. long, the lobes 2.5-5 mme long, spreading, then erect and 
connivents; petals white, erect,orbicular or kidney-shaped ©.5-5 mm. in diameter; 
stamens seated within the calyx tube, 5 mm. long; fruit oblong-oval, 8-15 m. 
lons, greenish with 10 green veins, becoming deep blue-black at maturity, 
glandular and hairy, the persistent perianth nearly as long, conspicuous; seeds 
ovoid 2-3 mn. long. 
Abundant throughout our region from 2500-5500 feet or more in dry open 
slopes, particularly in burns, in which it may be one of the first shrubby 
entrants, the seedlings appearing sometimes in abundance the summer following 
a five. Type collection made by Lewis on Lolo Trail of Bitterroot lts. ‘ 
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Cane: cerewn Dougle Squaw Currant. An erect, compact, much branched shrub 
of grayish aspect, the branchlets Givaricate; bark mahogany-colored or 
cherry-like, smooth, with a dull lustre; the new to tiferaata: cho. 
puberulent; leaves reniform 1-0 cm. broad, truncate to\cordate at the base, 
scarcely lobed in some forms, shallowly 5-5-lobed in others, the lower lobes 
scarcely evident, the margin crenulate-dentate, the teeth 1-1.5 m. tall, F 
scurfy or puberulent and glandular with sessile or shortly stalked glands on : 
poth surfaces, sometimes sticky, petioles 5-12 mm. long, puberulent and gland- 
ular, somewhat expanded at the very base; buds 3-4 mn. long, ovoid, the scales 
membraneous-chaffy, puberulent and more or less viscid; racemes drooping,5-4 ' 
flowered, the peduncle glandular; bracts cuneate-obovate, toothed at the’ apex, 
subfoliar, 4-5 ma. lone; calyx sessile or nearly so, the tube 8 mm. long, 3 mm. 4 
wide, ~-even> the lobes 1.5 mn. long, rounded, soon reflexed; petals 1 mm. long, 
kidney-shaped, stamens 1.5 mae longs, inserted above the middle of the tube, 
the filaments and anthers subequal; style barely exserted irom the tube, 
finely puberuleaa, very obscurely two-lobed at the apex; berries ged, 6-8 mm. 
in diameter, smooth or glandular, the perianth persistent; seeds ovoid, brown, j 
205 mme Longe | / Y | 
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Scarcely i ja to our region, occurring in dry rocky places in 
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Latah and Kootenai Counties, Paradise Hills, Abrams 8423; Fernan Lake, 
Christ 1462. 
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