(Pers. ) Foir. Prickly Currant. <A shrub of diverse habit 
- e582 m. tall, much branched, the stems ascending and rigid in sun forms, 
often trailing over logs ana snrubbery in shade forms, forming natural layers 
in moist conditious, mature bark mahogany color, shining, marked by irregular 
lenticels, entirely smooth, or especially on suckers, densely armed with 
straisht bristles, all gradations occurring, even on the same plant, new 
growth green, erispulous, not glandular soon becoming tan-colored or light 
brown; buds 4-5 nine long, ovoid, the terminal larger, light brown, bisecting 
the angles, the scales chaffy, their margins glandular; leaves exceedingly 
variable in size and shape, 1.5-2 cm. broad in sun forms, 8-10 cm. broad on 
suckers and in shade forms, usually about 5-7 cm. broad, ovate to reniform, 
commonly rotund, cordate to truncate on tne same plant, the sinus usually broad, 
5-lobed, the lobes cut about half way to the base, frequently deeper, obovate, 
cuneate, incised and toothed at the apex, the teeth apiculate, beth surfaces 
glabrous and without elands, rarely hirsute, or the margins Ciliolate, the 
upper surface somewhat glossy, the petioles slender, 1-2 times as long as the 
leaves, expanded but not membranous at the base, the margin with sessile or 
stalked glands but never with branched hairs the node unarmed or armed with 
1-5 spines, connate at the base; racemes pendulous, 6-25 flowered,usually about 
lz-flowered, glandular with stalked reddish glands, the bracts lanceolate, 2-3 
mne long, glandular, pedicels 5-6 mm. long, divaricate; calyx saucer shaped, 
glabrous, purplish ana creen, the tube 1.5 mm. long, the lobes subequal, sub- 
rotund® petals purple, fan-shaped: or shaped like a glover's knife; stamens 
1.¢ mme lone, the filaments ovem seated on a purple disc; styles joined about 
half their length, the hyranthium campanulate, densely long-glandular; berry 
purplish black, 4-5 nm. in diameter, globose, beset with longs glands; seeds 
ovoid, about 2 m. longe ———>(BRe echinatum Doug.) 
Abundant throughout our region at all elevations, commonly in moist, 
more or less snaded places, but found in dry burns, infrequent in swampy places, 
common on rock ledges, reaching its greatest development on northerly subalpine 
Slopes in seepage areas, associated with a rich herbaceous covering or Menziesia 
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