6. Re aureunm Purshe Golden Flowering Currant. An erect unarmed shrub 
1-2 m. tall, the bark greyish mahogany color, smooth, young growth cinereous wi 
a close, crisp pubescence and bearing golden sessile glands which are soon lost; 
leaves pale green, the blades rotund in outline, rounded-cuneate to trunca 
or hemispherical at the base, J-lobed above the middle, infrequently 5-lobed, 
the lobes ovate, entire or shallowly toothed, puberulent and densely beset with — 
sessile golden glands in youth, glabrate and glandless at maturity, the petioles 
subequal or shorter, puberulent, bearing a few short stalked glands near the 
lightly expanded base, or sometimes on the same plant a few plumose hairs, these — 
Sometimes glandular; racemes ascending or drooping, 5-15 flowered, puberulent © 
and glandular, the bracts subfoliar, elliptical, 5-10 mm. long, pedicels 3-5 
mae long; calyx bright yellow or reddish, tubular, the tube 6-7 mm. lone, the 
lobes oval, 4 mm. lon, te petals reddish purple, or yellow, elliptical, 
2 mie lone; t#e stamens inserted with the petals, somewhat shorter, the filaments 
red, subulatc, the anthers equal; style <-lobed at the summit; berry glabrous, 
globose, 6-9 mn. in diameter, deep yellow, infrequently reddish or black, 
surmounted by the conspicuous persistent perianth. 
q) Scarcely proper to our regione Hope, Dunkle; Clearwater Re, Geyer 394, 
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Re niveum Lindl. ‘Snake Xiver Gooseberry. irect shrub 1-3 m. tall, the 
branches drooping; bark mahogany color or grey in age, glabrous; buis ovoid, 
o-4 mm. lons, the scales glabrous or the margins ciliolate; leaves dull green, 
the blades rotund or ovate, <-5 cme broad, rounded or cuneate at the base, 
infrequently subcordate, J-lobed above the middle, or 5-lobed, the lobes 
5-5 toothed, the teeth ovate, apiculate, glabrous or lishtly pubescent on 
both surfaces, the lower paler, not slandular, petioles 1-2 times as long as 
the blades, more or less villous, particularly on the upper surface, expanded 
at the base,tne marsins with a few stalked glands; nodes unarmed or with 1-3 
stout srinesy racemes drooping, 1-6 flowered, several borne at the apex of 
lateral sruit-spurs, the bracts 1-1.5 mm. lon:, rotund-ovate, the margins 
Ciliolate; pedicels filiform, 6 mi. loncs calyx narrowly campanulate in flower, 
elabrows, the tube 2-2.5 mm. long, villous within, the lobes white, 5°mn. long, 
lanceolate or oblanceolate erect;,stamens 9 mm. lone, slenderly subulate, 
~ilose; styles subequal, pplose, united 2/5 tneir length; berry blacx, glabrous, 
J-? mm. in diameter, the lpne, persistent perianth conspicuous. 
Searcely proper to opr region, Julietta, Darlington, Apprently 
confined to Snake and Colpmbia Rivers and their tributaries. 
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